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

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60203 - Linguistics

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-12150S" target="_blank" >GA21-12150S: Mezikulturní variace v interakci mezi autorem a čtenářem v anglickém akademickém diskurzu českých studentů a rodilých mluvčích angličtiny</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

ISSN

0802-6106

e-ISSN

1473-4192

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

73-90

Kód UT WoS článku

001289663200001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85201056839