Submitted by kprzemek on 28 March, 2012 - 21:27.
Mgr. Radek Vogel, Ph.D., an ESP teacher and expert in ESP discourse and terminology from the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University, Brno, will give a guest lecture to all interested IFA students and staff about:
Lexical cohesion in popular and theoretical scientific texts
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
9:45 - 11:15
601 A
Abstract:
Lexical cohesion, i.e. selection of lexical items which are in some way related to other lexical items in a text, contributes importantly to creating texture, as defined by Halliday and Hasan (1976), and increases coherence of text. During the lecture we will look into different devices of lexical cohesion employed in scientific texts (eg. reiterations, use of superordinate expressions and general terms, collocations) and show that that two basic types of scientific text, popular and theoretical ones, display differences in the ratios between these lexical cohesive devices as well as in the frequency of their occurrence in each individual type. An attempt will be made at interpreting these findings. In the second part of the talk important differences in the distribution of sentence adverbials between native vs. non-native texts will be shown on tha basis of a range of corpora.
Bio note:
Dr. Radek Vogel teaches English lexicology, stylistics, syntax, historical development of English and ESP (namely Business English and Academic English) at the Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno. His linguistic interests include, besides lexical hierarchies, also terminologies, lexical borrowing, lexical semantics, verb semantics and genre analysis. He has taught in courses aimed at professional language competences (Association of Accountants of the Czech Republic, Brno International Business School) and those aimed at English for academic purposes (Brno University of Technology). In his research, Radek Vogel focuses on various aspects of lexis, namely the semantic relations between terminological items (polysemy, synonymy), use of lexis as a cohesive device (specifically lexical cohesion in scientific texts) or for achieving pragmatic effects (e.g. in company annual reports), and the role of adverbial linking devices in cohesion of a formal text.
P. Kaszubski
