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Epistemic uncertainty markers in L2 spoken discourse

Autoři: Huschová Petra

Rok: 2024

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Epistemic uncertainty markers in L2 spoken discourse	The paper deals with overt grammatical devices signalling the speaker’s uncertainty about the truth-value of a proposition in L2 spoken production. The source of epistemic uncertainty markers is the Corpus of Czech Students’ Spoken English, particularly student-student interactions in which the interlocutors discussing a given topic are expected to express their stance and justify their viewpoint. The aims of the corpus analysis are to examine a variety of linguistic forms conveying uncertainty, to explore their distributional patterns, and to discuss their functions in the interaction process. The findings reveal that Czech learners of English tend to employ a restricted set of items recurrently, mainly the epistemic phrase 'I think', not only to express their personal stance but also to reach agreement and manage discourse.	epistemic uncertainty; L2 spoken discourse; epistemic phrase 'I think'