The research presented in this paper has been realized in the framework
of Wrilab2, (www.wrilab2.eu), an European LLP project co-financed
by the European Commission for the period 2014-2016 and
aimed at creating an on-line reading and writing laboratory for
Czech, German, Italian and Slovenian as L2. The present study is realized
in the framework of the Angela Ferarri’s textual theory (2004,
2005, 2008, 2009) and it aims at analyzing the linguistic means that
realize the Frame of the utterance in 20 argumentative compositions
written in Czech L2 (level B1 and B2), taken from the website
www.merlin.eu.
The results of the analysis show that while in B1 compositions the
Frame fulfills mostly a denotative function, being expressed by spatial
and temporal specifications, in B2 compositions it is expressed
by a richer variety of linguistic means and fulfills more textual functions
(structuration, connection, hierarchization). The only function
that lacks in B2 compositions in contrast to the compositions written
by mother tongues, is the Topic isolation realized by expressions
such as ohledně ‘concerning’. As far as the use of hypotaxis is concerned,
B1 writers use less hypotaxtic structures then B2 writers and
lack deranked forms, such as nominalizations and participles.
