Writer-reader interaction in L2 learner academic discourse: Reader engagement in Czech students' Master's theses
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F23%3A00134310" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/23:00134310 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/186983/Olga%20Dontcheva-Navr%c3%a1tilov%c3%a1_117-135.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y" target="_blank" >https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/186983/Olga%20Dontcheva-Navr%c3%a1tilov%c3%a1_117-135.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2023.2.2" target="_blank" >10.14712/18059635.2023.2.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Writer-reader interaction in L2 learner academic discourse: Reader engagement in Czech students' Master's theses
Original language description
This article studies writer-reader interaction in L2 (Czech) learner academic discourse focusing on reader engagement in English-medium Master’s theses written in the humanities. The study draws on Hyland and Jiang’s (2016) model of engagement. It aims to reveal how Czech graduates use features of engagement (reader reference, appeals to shared knowledge, directives and questions) to establish solidarity with readers by acknowledging their presence and negotiating potential alternative views. The contrastive corpus-based analysis compares a corpus of Czech English-medium Master’s theses with two reference L1 corpora representing learner and published academic discourse to explore the impact of linguacultural background, expertise and discipline on the frequency of use and functions of engagement markers. The findings indicate that realisation patterns and functions of engagement markers vary significantly across the corpora. Czech graduates tend to underuse reader reference and questions, overuse directives, and generally fail to approximate disciplinary patterns of engagement markers. This seems to reflect students’ insufficient awareness of academic rhetorical conventions, their efforts to blend L1 and L2 academic norms, and the specificity of the audience they are addressing in the examination context of the Master’s thesis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - 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
Result continuities
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)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Linguistica Pragensia
ISSN
0862-8432
e-ISSN
1805-9635
Volume of the periodical
33
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
117-135
UT code for WoS article
001097347800002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85176393723