Interweaving citations in academic discourse by (non)native (non)professionals
Nyckelord:
academic discourse, reporting frame, citation, EFLAbstract
This paper studies manifest intertextuality, namely (free) direct speech in academic discourse. To that end, a corpus was assembled consisting of four samples of professional academic prose written by native speakers, four samples of professional academic prose written by non-native Czech linguists and four samples written by non-native (Czech) undergraduates. The research has two specific foci: initially, attention is given to the discourse parameters of academic citing (i.e., who is quoting whom, from where, what, how frequently, etc.), and later, the research aims at a range of framing structures, interweaving the citations in the current text. The paper offers a comprehensive analysis of reporting frames and related structures introducing citations in academic writing, examining their range, positions, the subjects featured, the word order, type of verbs, etc. The findings of this paper, comparing tendencies in native and non-native samples on the one hand, and in professional and novice discourse on the other, may be of use in academic writing courses at universities.
