Sentence adverbials in academic texts: Preferences of native vs. non-native writers

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angličtina
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Sentence adverbials in academic texts: Preferences of native vs. non-native writers
Original language description
One of the most effective tools for achieving cohesion in writing for academic purposes is the use of sentence adverbials, i.e. syntactically and/or prosodically detached conjunctive and disjunctive adverbials, functioning as explicit discourse markers.The increasing globalisation of science and dominance of English as its lingua franca have resulted in a certain linguistic and formal uniformity of texts published throughout various disciplines; however, regular differences can be identified within individual disciplines between native and non-native users of English, as well as between expert and novice academic writers. The chapter looks into the choices and distribution of sentence adverbials in academic papers and essays in a narrow segment of science, namely linguistics and (language) teaching methodology, particularly focusing on the distribution of sequential adverbials. The analysis has been carried out on several corpora of native and non-native, expert and novice academic te
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I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
English for Academic Purposes: Practical and Theoretical Approaches
ISBN
9783954045822
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
81-93
Number of pages of the book
200
Publisher name
Cuvillier Verlag
Place of publication
Göttingen
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