Sentence Adverbials in Written Academic Discourse

Abstract

This bachelor thesis deals with sentence adverbials specifically in written academic discourse. The first chapter is dedicated to explaining the basic term sentence adverbial and its function and types. The second chapter focuses on conjuncts, their division by function and describing their purpose. The following chapter contains the description of disjuncts and their division by function and purpose as well. The last chapter of theoretical part is focused on written academic discourse in relationship to sentence adverbials. The aim of the practical part is to focus on frequency as well as positioning of sentence adverbials in academic texts written by native English speakers in comparison to non-natives.