Information technology students’ involvement in in-class debates: Speech acts and modification of the illocutionary force

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26220%2F22%3APU146563" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26220/22:PU146563 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/20793/28424" target="_blank" >https://journals.muni.cz/discourse-and-interaction/article/view/20793/28424</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/DI2022-2-28" target="_blank" >10.5817/DI2022-2-28</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Information technology students’ involvement in in-class debates: Speech acts and modification of the illocutionary force

Original language description

Information technology (IT) professionals are a specific discourse community whose oral communication in English as a second language (ESL) predominates at all levels of workplace activities in the multinational IT sector. Since IT students’ pragmatic competence in performing communicative functions is essential for their effective communication in an academic setting and a global work environment, it is important to investigate this aspect of their language systematically and carefully. This paper focuses on IT students’ speech acts and the ways they modify the illocutionary force while participating in in-class debates. The analysis revealed that students used a wide range of speech acts and different metadiscourse markers for both increasing and reducing the illocutionary force. The ways IT students used boosters and hedges also reflect how they assume and share their professional knowledge and experience in their discourse community.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - 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

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Discourse and Interaction

ISSN

1802-9930

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

28-52

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85150308452