%0 Journal Article
%T Metadiscoursal connectors in linguistics MA theses in English L1 & L2. Teksto konektoriai kalbotyros magistro darbuose
%A Nida Burneikait£¿
%J Kalbotyra
%D 2009
%I Vilnius University
%X It is now commonly agreed that written academic texts are dialogic and interactive. How do academic writers increase interactivity of discourse? How do they organise texts and communicate with readers? Text-connectors is one of the many metadiscoursal categories used by writers to arrange their arguments and involve their readers. This paper considers the use of text-connectors in the Master¡¯s thesis genre in Linguistics and analyses 70 theses by native and non-native (Lithuanian) students of English. The aim of the study is to work out a methodological framework for the analysis of text-connectors in the MA thesis genre and to compare the frequencies of text-connectors in native speaker (L1) and non-native speaker (L2) English theses as well as with frequencies in other genres. The classification of text-connectors developed in the study includes nine functional categories: addition, attitude, concession, contrast/comparison, illustration, restatement, result, sequence and summary; the procedural considerations cover the problems of reflexivity, multifunctionality, clustering and double use of text-connectors; the comparison of L1 and L2 theses shows an enormous overuse of text-connectors in L2 texts. ------ Straipsnyje bandoma tyrin ti kaip realizuojama tarpasmenin  kalbos funkcija moksliniame diskurse, kaip sustiprinamas ra ytinio teksto interaktyvumas, kaip strukt¨±ruojamas tekstas ir kuriamas dialogas su skaitytoju. Metadiskurso strategij  vartojimas yra vienas i  b¨±d  teksto paveikumui sustiprinti. Teksto konektoriai ¨C tai metadiskurso kategorija, padedanti tinkamai sud lioti argumentus tekste bei  traukti skaitytoj    diskurso proces . Tyrimu siekiama apib¨±dinti teksto konektori  vartojim  lingvistikos magistro darbuose. Tyrimo med iaga ¨C 70 magistro darb , para yt  gimt ja ir negimt ja angl  kalba Britanijos ir Lietuvos universitetuose.Straipsnyje pateikiami tyrimo pirmosios dalies rezultatai: (1) magistro darbo  anro teksto konektori  analiz s metodologiniai metmenys: teksto konektori  funkcin  klasifikacija, susidedanti i  devyni  kategorij , j  lingvistin s rai kos pavyzd iai bei tyrimo proceso problemini  aspekt  analiz ; (2) statistin s analiz s rezultatai: teksto konektori  santykinis da numas magistro darbuose (0,77) bei da num  palyginimas gimtakalbi  ir negimtakalbi  student  tekstuose (0,56:0,90), rodantis, jos negimtakalbiai (Lietuvos universitet ) angl  kalbos studentai vartoja daug daugiau teksto konektori  magistro darbuose (+355,06) nei gimtakalbiai. Tik tina tokio gausaus teksto konektori  vartojimo prie astis ¨C perd tas d mesys t
%K text-connectors
%K metadiscourse
%K reflexivity
%K MA thesis genre
%K L1 and L2
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