Metadiscoursal connectors in linguistics MA theses in English L1 & L2. Teksto konektoriai kalbotyros magistro darbuose

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 struktūruojamas tekstas ir kuriamas dialogas su skaitytoju. Metadiskurso strategij vartojimas yra vienas i būd teksto paveikumui sustiprinti. Teksto konektoriai – tai metadiskurso kategorija, padedanti tinkamai sud lioti argumentus tekste bei traukti skaitytoj diskurso proces . Tyrimu siekiama apibūdinti teksto konektori vartojim lingvistikos magistro darbuose. Tyrimo med iaga – 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 – perd tas d mesys t