CONTRASTIVE AND RESULTIVE CONJUNCTS IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC PROSE
CONTRASTIVE AND RESULTIVE CONJUNCTS IN ENGLISH ACADEMIC PROSE

Author(s): Vladimíra Ježdíková
Subject(s): Language studies, Semantics, Higher Education , Stylistics
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: academic prose; cohesion; cohesive means; conjuncts; contrastive conjuncts; resultive conjuncts;
Summary/Abstract: The contribution examines the role of certain cohesive devices, namely conjuncts, in academic discourse, comparing their distribution in three text types which are represented by a textbook aimed at university students, research articles from a recognized scientific journal and conference papers. The material under investigation is taken from authentic scientific texts on computer science, all of which are intended for the technically educated reading scientific public, yet are all different in the purpose for which they were written, the presupposed type of readers and the situational framework in which they are presumed to be read. Focusing mainly on the most distinctive semantic categories of resultive and contrastive conjuncts, the paper analyses the frequency and variety of both semantic categories of conjuncts and individual tokens. The paper tests the hypothesis that different academic settings for which scientific texts are designed influence the type of cohesive means used.

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