Comma as punctuation device in Czech secondary school students’ English essays
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Comma as punctuation device in Czech secondary school students’ English essays
Original language description
This paper studies comma usage in Czech secondary school Maturita essays with a view to determining to what extent Czech punctuation rules based on syntactic aspects are transferred into English. For this reason corpus-informed research on the comma use in compound, complex and simple sentences was carried out; the vagueness of rules regarding English punctuation was investigated, and the disambiguating function of the comma in English highlighted. The authors tentatively conclude that secondary school teachers, in addition to teaching pedagogical rules of thumb regarding punctuation conventions, should focus more on contextualised, meaning-making potential of the comma.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Auspicia
ISSN
1214-4967
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Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
34
Pages from-to
109-142
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