Causal and contrastive discourse markers as used by Czech and German students of English in the genre of diploma theses

POVOLNÁ, Renata. Causal and contrastive discourse markers as used by Czech and German students of English in the genre of diploma theses. In Research project workshop: In Search of the Interpersonal Aspects of Academic and Mass Media Discourse. 2011.

Basic information

Original name

Causal and contrastive discourse markers as used by Czech and German students of English in the genre of diploma theses

Name in Czech

Příčinné a kontrastivní diskurzní ukazatele v diplomových pracích českých a německých studentů

Authors

POVOLNÁ, Renata

Edition

Research project workshop: In Search of the Interpersonal Aspects of Academic and Mass Media Discourse, 2011

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Other information

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Education

Keywords (in Czech)

causal and contrastive discourse markers, coherence relations, hypotactic and paratactic relations, diploma theses

Keywords in English

příčinné a kontrastivní ukazatele, vztahy koherence, hypotaktické a parataktické vztahy, diplomové práce

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Abstract

V originále

The lecturer introduces results of her investigation into a corpus of diploma theses written by Czech and German students of English with the aim of finding out whether the use of causal and contrastive discourse markers by novice non-native speakers differs from the writing habits of experienced native speakers of English when building coherence relations in the genre of diploma theses. In addition, she discusses differences in the preferences of novice writers from different discourse communities, i.e. Czech Republic and Germany, while aiming to identify problems students face when producing texts in academic settings.