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Contrastive rhetoric : cross-cultural aspects of second-language writing

Shows how a person's first language and culture influence writing in a second language.
Print Book, English, 2002
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Klett, Stuttgart, 2002
XV, 201 Seiten : Diagramme ; 24 cm.
9780521441452, 9780521446884, 9783125331983, 0521441455, 0521446880, 3125331986
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PART 1 PRELIMINARIES: EARLY PHASES OF THE FIELD; 1 Toward an extended definition of contrastive rhetoric; 2 Contrastive rhetoric studies in applied linguistics; 3 Historical evaluation of contrastive rhetoric: from Kaplan's 1966 study to diversification in languages, genres, and authors; PART 2 INTERFACES WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES; 4 Contrastive rhetoric and the field of rhetoric and composition; 5 Contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics; 6 Writing as an activity embedded in a culture; 7 Contrastive rhetoric and translation studies; 8 Genre-specific studies in contrastive rhetoric; PART 3 IMPLICATIONS OF CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC; 9 Methods of research in contrastive rhetoric; 10 Conclusion: Implications and research directions