Proměny českého akademického diskurzu během posledních padesáti let

Abstract

The paper aims to explore changes occurring in the Czech academic writing tradition during the past fifty years. The focus is on Linguistics research articles written by Czech scholars and published in peer-reviewed Czech linguistic journals. Czech research papers published in the 1970s adhere to writing conventions of the so-called Teutonic intellectual style (Galtung, 1981) typical of Germany and other Central and East-European countries. The influence of the Teutonic style gradually diminished during the 1980s and in the early 1990s Czech academic style began to conform to norms and conventions of the Anglophone academic writing tradition. The strongest influence of the Anglophone style is apparent in Czech articles published after 2000. This corresponds to the general tendency of minor discourse communities to adopt the Anglophone academic style since English has become the language of international academic communication.