The paper is concerned with causal and contrastive discourse markers (DMs) as used by Czech and German students of English, notably in the genre of Master’s theses. Since DMs play a crucial role when establishing semantic relations between segments of discourse in academic texts, the author attempts to investigate whether advanced learners of English from different discourse communities (Swales 1990), the Czech Republic and Germany, can use selected markers correctly. Master’s theses represent students’ final written achievements at the end of their university studies and are thus expected to be of high quality. Influenced by their L1 writing habits and instructions provided by their thesis supervisors and academic skills teachers, novice non-native writers from the two different discourse communities strive to achieve native-like written fluency, since this is mostly considered a standard in academic texts, in particular now that English has become the lingua franca of international academic communication.
Cross-cultural Differences in the Use of Discourse Markers by Czech and German Students of English in the Genre of Master‘s Theses
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