Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic
Writing

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Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic Writing

POVOLNÁ, Renata

Basic information

Original name

Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic Writing

Authors

POVOLNÁ, Renata (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Brno Studies in English, Brno, Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 0524-6881

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14410/12:00073470

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2012-2-8

Keywords (in Czech)

akademický diskurz; akademické psaní začínajících autorů; koherentní vztahy; příčinné vztahy; kontrastivní vztahy; diskurzní ukazatele; diplomové práce

Keywords in English

academic discourse; novice academic writing; coherence relations; causal relations; contrastive relations; discourse markers; Master's theses

Abstract

V originále

The article studies causal and contrastive relations between adjacent or more distant segments of discourse since they play an important role in expressing coherence relations (Taboada 2006) in academic discourse including discourse written by university students of English. By overtly signalling how the writer intends the discourse segment that follows to relate to the previous segment(s), discourse markers (DMs), in particular those expressing causal and contrastive relations, contribute to cohesion and enhance the establishment and maintenance of coherence in academic written discourse. While analysing a corpus of Master’s theses written by non-native novice writers the author of the article attempts to find out which DMs Czech students of English use when expressing causal and contrastive relations, whether they are able to use selected DMs correctly and, in addition, whether there are any differences in the preferences of students that accord with the fields of study – linguistics, literature and culture, and methodology – in which the Master’s theses are written.

Links

GA405/08/0866, research and development project

Name: Koherence a koheze v anglickém diskurzu

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Coherence and Cohesion in English Discourse

Citovat

POVOLNÁ, Renata. Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic Writing. Brno Studies in English. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, vol. 38, No 2, p. 131-148. ISSN 0524-6881. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2012-2-8.

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POVOLNÁ, Renata. Causal and Contrastive Discourse Markers in Novice Academic Writing. \textit{Brno Studies in English}. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, vol.~38, No~2, p.~131-148. ISSN~0524-6881. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2012-2-8.

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