Cross-cultural differences in the use of rhetorical strategies in academic texts. An English and Czech contrastive study.

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/133271/edition/116432/content" target="_blank" >https://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/133271/edition/116432/content</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24425/linsi.2020.133271" target="_blank" >10.24425/linsi.2020.133271</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-cultural differences in the use of rhetorical strategies in academic texts. An English and Czech contrastive study.

Original language description

Academic authors employ various language means in order to construct and disseminate knowledge, to sound persuasive, to undergird their arguments, but also to seek agreement within the academic community. The aim of this paper is to analyse a selected group of rhetorical strategies used by Anglophone and Czech authors of Linguistics research articles (RAs) and research theses (RTs). These strategies are assumed to vary in both academic genres since the position of their writers within the academic community differs. Even though authors of RAs have to meet reviewers’ requirements in order for their article to be published, so their relative position may be lower than that of the reviewers’, authors of RAs may have the same “absolute status” as the reviewers may be just as expert in that particular field. By contrast, the status of research students is lower than that of their evaluators both in relative and absolute terms. Even though students may gain some learned authority in presenting an original contribution, their assessors command both learned and institutional authority, hence are endowed with a higher status. Apart from comparing rhetorical strategies used in RAs and RTs, the paper focuses on cross-cultural differences between Anglophone and Czech academic writing traditions.

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

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Linguistica Silesiana

ISSN

0208-4228

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

41

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

177-195

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85090223627