Uncertainty Markers in Spoken Learner Discourse

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F25%3A39923498" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/25:39923498 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/39142" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/39142</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2025-2-101" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2025-2-101</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Uncertainty Markers in Spoken Learner Discourse
Original language description
The paper discusses linguistic forms conveying epistemic stance in L2 spoken production, focusing on expressing uncertainty. The source of stance markers is a subset of the Corpus of Czech Students’ Spoken English, particularly informal student-student discussions on a given topic. The main aim of the corpus analysis is to identify a variety of grammatical devices indicating the speaker’s uncertainty about the truth-value of a proposition and to examine their distributional patterns and positional preferences. Additionally, the paper explores roles of the construction 'I think', the most frequent stance marker in the discussions analysed. The findings indicate that Czech learners of English tend to employ a restricted set of items recurrently and use 'I think' not only to express uncertainty but also to mitigate potential disagreement and signal turn-taking.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60203 - Linguistics

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

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

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