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Academic Lingua Franca by Czech Speakers: The Case of Abstracts

Authors: Nováková Eva

Year: 2018

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Academic Lingua Franca by Czech Speakers: The Case of Abstracts	Due to its status of present-day lingua franca, the English language plays a major role in international academic discourse, and the researchers are expected to present their academic output in English both in oral and written forms. Still, a large number of them acquired English as the second language and, therefore, must face the challenges posed by various linguistic subtleties of L2 system on the level of all linguistic “planes”. The present paper focuses on a specific type of the academic texts published by L2 (Czech) speakers of academic English, i.e., the abstracts that discuss the topics within the field of philology. These texts are approached from the perspective of in-depth text analysis comprising the selected problems of grammar and lexicon (grammaticality, idiomaticity, collocations) as well as the supra-segmental features—cohesion, coherence, communicative dynamism, and orthography. The selection and use of the linguistic means by L2 speakers are assessed with respect to their functional ends determined by both intra- and extra-linguistic norms of the academic style. The analysis attempts to establish the contexts which are liable to infringe the stylistic conventions of academic English. Moreover, it tests the assumption that potential L1 interferences might not be determined by the lack of lexico-grammatical competence only, but might be rooted in the differences between the Czech and the anglophone academic discourses.	academic writing; English as a lingua franca; abstracts by L2 speakers; systemic differences