Language Functions in Business Meetings (Book Review)

Marek Havrila

The article reviews the book on Language Functions in Business Meetings by Johanna Jakabovičová, a study on exponents and phrases expressing functions of opinion, suggestion, agreement and disagreement in business communication.

On Conveying Strong Judgments in Conversational English (Book Review)

Milada Walková

The article reviews the work On Conveying Strong Judgments in Conversational English by Alena Kačmárová, a study on accentuation phenomena as manifested in the language of internet chat.

Czech Scientific Contributions to Doctor-Patient Interaction Research

Miroslav Černý

Doctor-patient interaction is an important process particularly in those cases where the diagnosis and following treatment is based primarily on the information acquired from such interaction. It seems, however, that in the Czech Republic the importance of understanding the process associated with doctor-patient interviews has not been taken into serious consideration. The presented review shows why Czech doctor-patient communication research should be viewed as rather unsatisfactory.

Poznámka o překládání metodou ‚hrubá síla‘

[A note on brute-force method of translation]

Martin Drápela

The author briefly comments on the latest development in the area of machine translation by considering the consequences brute-force translation method can have for the work of linguists and/or language teachers.

CALL z minulého století

[CALL from the Past Century]

Martin Drápela

This article is essentially a reprint of a Czech summary of a 1996 survey of software for English language learning. In early 1997 the survey was rejected for publication in a scholarly journal dealing with language teaching and learning, but is still believed to be of some inspiration for further investigation into the area of Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL).