Reporting verbs in undergraduate academic writing: Czech and German students compared

JANČAŘÍKOVÁ, Renata. Reporting verbs in undergraduate academic writing: Czech and German students compared. In University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany. 2011.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Reporting verbs in undergraduate academic writing: Czech and German students compared

Autoři

JANČAŘÍKOVÁ, Renata

Vydání

University of Technology, Chemnitz, Germany, 2011

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Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Vyžádané přednášky

Obor

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

reporting verbs; academic writing; integral citation; denotative categories; evaluative potential

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Anotace

V originále

The lecture presented the results of a comparative study of the use of reporting verbs by Czech and German students in their diploma thesis. The aim of the analysis was to determine the proportion of verbs according to the denotative categories as determined by Hyland (1999)and the evaluative potential of reporting verbs. The research has shown that the most frequent category of reporting verbs is discourse act verbs and the least frequent cognition act verbs, both in Czech and German theses. As for the evaluative potential, both German and Czech students display a tendency to use non-factive verbs.