Introduction

Chapters in this book

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