conference paper, genre, genre analysis, register analysis, interpersonal function, Czech English, Polish English, spoken discourse, corpus

The study centres on the genre of conference presentations as linguistically complex situations the specifics of which follow from their quality of the spoken monologue discourse. To our knowledge, there are no contrastive studies comparing ?Czech/Polish English? with English so far. The analysis focuses on the interpersonal dimension of conference presentations and examines the similarities and differences in conference language speaker-audience relationships/interactions in English and Czech/Polish English. The research will address the extent to which the data reveal contrastive differences in linguistic strategies and discourse preferences between scholars from two cultural and language backgrounds - English and non-English, i.e. Czech and Polish - using English. The corpus consists of 20 conference presentations by native speakers of English and Czech and Polish speakers using English, respectively, from the field of applied linguistics.