Contrastive rhetoric [electronic resource] : reaching to intercultural rhetoric / edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki.

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9789027291462

9781282152137

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Contrastive rhetoric [electronic resource] : reaching to intercultural rhetoric / edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki.

Author:

Connor, Ulla, 1948-

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1 online resource (viii, 324 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond, new ser., v. 169

Contents:

Contrastive Rhetoric; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction; I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric; From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric; The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies; II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres; Metadiscourse across three varieties of English; A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China; Different cultures -- Different discourses?; Spanish-language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.

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Rhetoric -- Social aspects.

Intercultural communication.

English language -- Study and teaching -- Foreign speakers.

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Connor, Ulla, 1948-

Nagelhout, Ed.

Rozycki, William V.

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2008

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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.

Ulla Connor; Ed Nagelhout; William RozyckiXiaoming LiAna I. MorenoAnnelie ÄdelHaiying FengMaria Loukianenko WolfeChin-Sook Pak; Rebeca AcevedoLorena Suárez; Ana I. MorenoWei WangVirginia LoCastroKara McBrideXiaoye YouJoel BlochPaul Kei Matsuda; Dwight AtkinsonUlla Connor

1 Introduction	p. 1
2 Section I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric	p. 9
3 From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric: A search for collective identity	p. 11
4 The\importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies	p. 25
5 Section II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres	p. 43
6 Metadiscourse across three varieties of English: American, British, and advanced learner English	p. 45
7 A\genre-based study of research grant proposals in China	p. 63
8 Different cultures - different discourses? Rhetorical patterns of business letters by English and Russian speakers	p. 87
9 Spanish language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S.	p. 123
10 The\rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature: An English-Spanish cross-linguistic approach	p. 147
11 Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia: A contrastive genre study	p. 169
12 Section III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing	p. 193
13 "Long sentences and floating commas": Mexican students' rhetorical practices and the sociocultural context	p. 195
14 English web page use in an EFL setting: A contrastive rhetoric view of the development of information literacy	p. 219
15 From Confucianism to Marxism: A century of theme treatment in Chinese writing instruction	p. 241
16 Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context: What we can learn about one from the other	p. 257
17 Section IV. Future directions	p. 275
18 A\conversation on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda talk about issues, conceptualizations, and the future of contrastive rhetoric	p. 277
19 Mapping multidimensional aspects of research: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric	p. 299
20 Notes on contributors	p. 317
21 Index	p. 321

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