Table of Contents

Preface

Tabula Gratulatoria

Nils Erik Enkvist

The Era of Uno Lindelöf in Finland’s English Philology 1

Martin Gill

‘Words that Speak Works’: Writing, Rhetoric and the
Origins of British Empiricism 15

Ulla Connor

Contrastive Rhetoric: New Directions 33

Carolyn Matalene & Anna Mauranen

Are Writing Teachers Written by their Culture? 59

Kaj Sjöholm

Incidental Learning of English by Swedish Learners in Finland 77

Rolf Palmberg

Multiple Intelligences and EFL Coursebook Exercises 91

Päivi Pietilä

Speaking Skills in a Foreign Language:Reflections on the
Teaching of Conversational Skills 101

Geoffrey Phillips

On Intuition and Practicalities in the Design of Course
Materials 111

Tuija Virtanen

The FSWICLE Writer 121

Signe-Anita Lindgrén

How to Reveal a Spy - in a Real Letter 131

G. M. Awbery

“Scandalous Welsh Words 141

Paul Meara

The Mathematics of Vocabularies 151

I. S. P. Nation

How Many High Frequency Words are There in English? 167

Kay Wikberg

Alive and Kicking – Metaphor Versus Idioms: A Comparison 183

Bo Pettersson

On life is a journey as a Link between Analogy
and Narrative 199

Anthony W. Johnson

Tennis in Early Modern British Poetry 215

Sven-Johan Spånberg

Representations of Oscar Wilde in Recent Drama 247

Roger D. Sell

Waistlines: Bowling, Orwell, Blair 261

John Smeds

1984 – The End of Dystopia 281

Pia Ahlbäck

The Poetics of Industrial Place: Towardan Environmental
Imagology 295

Britannica

Thirteen or Fourteen Things to Do When You have Retired 307