genre, grammar, interpersonal function, conference presentation, speaker self-representation, contrastive study, Czech English, academic speech, generic moves

The research is grounded in a Hallidayan systemic-functional framework and draws upon research results in genre analysis. It focuses on the lexico-grammatical means of direct speaker-audience interaction by which speakers attempt to construct and encode identities for the participants in the discourse. Following Hyland (2009), the study tries to accomplish two main aims: (1) the research aims at revealing and exploring the linguistic means that contribute to the interpersonal meaning in the genre through the study of speaker self-representation strategies and interactional skills in connection with genre?s rhetorical unfolding in conference language; (2) by comparing English and ?Czech English? conference presentations, the research focuses on revealing and classifying possible culture-based rhetorical patterns in the genre which mostly reflect native-language rhetorical pattern practices of discourse organization that evolved due to different cultural contexts.