conference presentation, contrastive analysis, Czech English, discourse rhetoric practices, genre analysis, interpersonal function, speaker-audience interaction

The genre of conference presentations will be examined within the Hallidayan systemic-functional framework and in the concept of genre analysis. The analysis will centre on the interpersonal function of discourse and it will examine the similarities and differences in conference language speaker-audience relationships in English and Czech English. through analysing surface features such as I and we-perspective and direct you-address in connection to the type of so called micro-speech acts such as stating aims, reference, defining, or exemplification. The research will thus 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.