Self-mention in L2 (Czech) learner academic discourse: Realisations, functions and distribution across master’s theses

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F23%3A00134185" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/23:00134185 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158523000589" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1475158523000589</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101272" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jeap.2023.101272</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Self-mention in L2 (Czech) learner academic discourse: Realisations, functions and distribution across master’s theses

Original language description

This article explores self-mention in L2 (Czech) English-medium master's theses written in the humanities along three dimensions of analysis: realisation, authorial roles and distribution across rhetorical sections. While extending the scope of self-mention to cover nominal forms, the aim of the study is to find out how Czech graduates combine pronominal and nominal self-mention to modulate the degree of visibility and authority they convey in their texts. The contrastive corpus-based investigation compares a corpus of Czech English-medium master's theses with two reference L1 corpora representing learner and published academic discourse to examine differences pertaining to variation along culture, expertise and discipline dimensions. The findings indicate that realisation patterns of self-mention and preferences for specific authorial roles vary significantly across the corpora. Czech graduates tend to be reluctant to display a high degree of visibility and authority, prefer to adopt a stance of humility, and fail to approximate disciplinary patterns of self-mention. The paper argues that this is motivated by the efforts of students to blend L1 and L2 academic conventions, their lower level of rhetorical maturity, and the audience addressed by the students in the examination context of the master's thesis.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60203 - Linguistics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-12150S" target="_blank" >GA21-12150S: Intercultural variation in writer-reader interaction in English-medium academic discourse by Czech and Anglophone novice writers</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES

ISSN

1475-1585

e-ISSN

1878-1497

Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

101272

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001033636200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85163484022