Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 1996. Vol. 1. Eger Journal of English Studies.(Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 24)

Editorial Note

Editorial note The Department of English Language and Literature at Eszterházy Károly Teachers' Training College is pleased to present Volume 1 of the Eger Journal of English Studies. This present volume wants to indicate not only a change in the name of the earlier series of British and American Studies, but it also takes a new approach in several ways. On the one hand, the Department of American Studies has started a series of their own papers in separate volumes (the Eger Journal of American Studies), and on the other hand we would like to put an end to the earlier practice of publishing only papers of members of our own department. In the future we would like to invite submissions from established authors both from Hungarian colleges and universities and from abroad. It is a great pleasure for us that in this very first volume of our journal, we have the honour of having four contributors from British universities. Sadly, one contributor, George Cushing, translator of 'Egri csillagok' ('The Eclipse of the Crescent Moon') has passed away since submitting his paper. By publishing his paper posthumously, we wish to express our gratitude for his activity in fostering and exploring HungarianEnglish relations. We also have the honour of having three contributors from The University of Birmingham. This is additional proof of the ongoing and fruitful cooperation between the Birmingham colleagues and the members of our department. This cooperation has been realized through mutual visits, research work done by our linguists at COBUILD and lectures given by our visitors from the School of English at The University of Birmingham and COBUILD. We offer special thanks to Ramesh Krishnamurty, corpus manager of COBUILD, who has helped us a lot in establishing and promoting this cooperation since the very beginning. We are also pleased to have such highly reputed experts as Geoff Barnbrook and Richard Cauldwell among the authors of this volume. We hope the 'Birmingham connection' will continue in the same productive way in the future, too, but authors from other English and Hungarian institutions of higher education are also welcome to contribute to our future volumes. The journal will be published annually. 6