Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14410%2F25%3A00144242" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14410/25:00144242 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijal.12602" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijal.12602</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijal.12602" target="_blank" >10.1111/ijal.12602</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Hedges and boosters in L2 (Czech) Master's theses and published research articles: A contrastive analysis
Original language description
This article studies the use of lexical hedges and boosters in English-medium Master's theses by L2 (Czech) graduates in English language and literature programmes. Drawing on the metadiscourse framework and adopting a corpus-based approach, the study analyses the frequency, realisations, and function of hedges and boosters in a corpus of 48 Master's theses in linguistics, literature, and education. The results are also compared to a reference corpus representing L1 English published academic discourse in the same disciplines. The analysis shows that the Master's theses of Czech students use fewer hedges and slightly more boosters than L1 expert writers and thus display a somewhat less cautious stance. The results also indicate that Czech graduates show a strong preference for content-oriented hedges and emphatics as boosters. This suggests that the rhetorical choices of Czech graduates bear features of learner discourse and may be affected by the merging of L1 and L2 academic conventions and the power relations between the student-writer and the examiners inherent to the Master's thesis. Based on these findings, the article draws some implications for L2 writing pedagogy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

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
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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