Contrastive Rhetoric
Reaching to intercultural rhetoric
1st Edition
Published on 9. January 2008
VIII, 324 pages
978-90-272-9146-2 (ISBN)
Description
This volume explores contrastive rhetoric for audiences in both ESL contexts and international EFL contexts, exposing the newest developments in theories of culture and discourse and pushing the boundaries beyond any previously staked ground. The book presents a comprehensive set of empirical investigations involving a number of first languages; 13 of the 17 authors are English-as-a-second-language speakers, many working in non-US contexts. This work develops a coherent agenda for contrastive rhetoric researchers, studying genres such as school writing, grant proposals, business letters, newspaper editorials, book reviews, and newspaper commentaries. Four chapters provide ethnographies and observations about contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of EFL and ESL. The book ends with a look to the future, suggesting it is more accurate to use the term 'intercultural rhetoric' to account for the richness of rhetoric variation of written texts and the varying contexts in which they are constructed.
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- Contrastive Rhetoric
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- dedication page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Critiques of contrastive rhetoric
- New directions in contrastive rhetoric research
- Approaches highlighted in this volume
- References
- I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric
- From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric
- References
- The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies
- Introduction
- Contrastive rhetoric questions
- Definition of parallel corpora
- The concept of equivalence in parallel corpus designs
- A model of the communication process
- Research variables in cross-cultural studies
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres
- Metadiscourse across three varieties of English
- Reflexivity in language
- The reflexive model of metadiscourse
- Material
- Results
- The influencing factors
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China
- Introduction
- The study
- Results and discussion
- Conclusions and implications
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- Different cultures - Different discourses?
- Introduction
- The study
- Results and discussion
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Spanish-language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.
- Introduction
- Quantitative and stylistic analysis of editorials
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- The rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature
- Introduction
- Research questions and variables
- Data
- Method of analysis
- Contrastive results
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix
- Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- Texts analyzed
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing
- "Long sentences and floating commas"
- Introduction
- The study
- Functional discourse analysis
- Ethnographic study
- Conclusions and implications
- Acknowledgements
- References
- English Web page use in an EFL setting
- Introduction
- Observational methods
- The study
- Context
- Method
- Participants
- Results
- Discussion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- From Confucianism to Marxism
- Neo-Confucian themes in the late Qing Dynasty (1664-1911)
- Diversified themes in Republican China (1912-1949)
- Socialist themes in Maoist China (1949-1976)
- Depoliticized themes in Post-Mao China (1977-present)
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context
- The paradigmatic nature of intercultural rhetoric
- The historical relationship between plagiarism and intellectual property
- Variable definitions of plagiarism and intellectual property
- Current and future developments
- Conclusion
- References
- Appendix
- IV. Future directions
- A conversation on contrastive rhetoric
- Introduction
- First experiences with CR
- Renaming and reconceptualizing CR
- Contrastive rhetoric as a field?
- Future directions for CR
- References
- Mapping multidimensional aspects of research
- Introduction
- History of contrastive rhetoric
- Where should contrastive rhetoric go?
- Postmodern mapping helps conceptualize contrastive rhetoric
- Accommodation and structuration: Factors to consider
- From contrastive to intercultural rhetoric
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Notes on contributors
- Index
- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series
