Metadiscourse in L2 Master’s theses: The impact of academic
culture and expertise

J 2025

Metadiscourse in L2 Master’s theses: The impact of academic culture and expertise

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga; Tereza GUZIUROVÁ; Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ a Marie LAHODOVÁ VALIŠOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Metadiscourse in L2 Master’s theses: The impact of academic culture and expertise

Autoři

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga; Tereza GUZIUROVÁ; Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ a Marie LAHODOVÁ VALIŠOVÁ

Vydání

Discourse and Interaction, Brno, Masaryk University, 2025, 1802-9930

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14410/25:00144385

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2025-1-28

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-105008646730

Klíčová slova anglicky

metadiscourse; Master's theses; academic writing; genre; intercultural analysis

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 19. 11. 2025 11:18, Mgr. Daniela Marcollová

Anotace

V originále

This study explores metadiscourse in English-medium Master’s theses by L2 (Czech) graduates, aiming to explain how Czech students organise their texts, express their stance towards the content and engage with their readers. It seeks to contrast L2 learner academic discourse with L1 learner and expert academic discourse in order to identify differences along the culture and level of expertise dimensions. The corpus-based analysis employs Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal framework of metadiscourse to identify the frequency, functions and realisations of interactive and interactional metadiscourse devices. The findings reveal that interactional metadiscourse is more prominent than interactive metadiscourse in all three corpora and there are significant differences in the realisation patterns and functions of specific metadiscourse markers. The results of the analysis suggest that self-mention, hedges and engagement markers vary along the expertise dimension as they are more heavily used in published research articles than in learner discourse. Cultural differences (i.e., those stemming primarily from different academic writing conventions) seem to affect the preferred degree of writer visibility, as well as preferences for specific metadiscourse markers. Variation in interactive metadiscourse seems to be influenced by text size, genre and communicative purpose. The findings allow for the drawing of several implications for L2 writing pedagogy.

Návaznosti

GA21-12150S, projekt VaV

Název: Mezikulturní variace v interakci mezi autorem a čtenářem v anglickém akademickém diskurzu českých studentů a rodilých mluvčích angličtiny

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Mezikulturní variace v interakci mezi autorem a čtenářem v anglickém akademickém diskurzu českých studentů a rodilých mluvčích angličtiny

Citovat

DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga; Tereza GUZIUROVÁ; Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ a Marie LAHODOVÁ VALIŠOVÁ. Metadiscourse in L2 Master’s theses: The impact of academic culture and expertise. Discourse and Interaction. Brno: Masaryk University, 2025, roč. 18, č. 1, s. 28-57. ISSN 1802-9930. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2025-1-28.

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DONTCHEVA-NAVRÁTILOVÁ, Olga; Tereza GUZIUROVÁ; Renata JANČAŘÍKOVÁ a Marie LAHODOVÁ VALIŠOVÁ. Metadiscourse in L2 Master’s theses: The impact of academic culture and expertise. \textit{Discourse and Interaction}. Brno: Masaryk University, 2025, roč.~18, č.~1, s.~28-57. ISSN~1802-9930. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2025-1-28.

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