A conversation on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda talk about issues, conceptualizations, and the future of contrastive rhetoric
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Paul Kei Matsuda
Abstract
This conversation took place on the evening of September 25, 2004, in an old house on an island in Maine. Because contrastive rhetoric (CR) may be at a crucial point in its history – and one which invites fundamental rethinking – we decided to match this exploratory moment with an equally exploratory genre: the academic conversation. Our intent was not to come to univocal agreement or to state a general theory; instead, we sought to develop our thoughts and feelings about CR through friendly but serious dialogue. It should be clear that both of us have complex feelings about CR. We thought that this was an opportune place from which to begin to examine its future possibilities and implications.
Abstract
This conversation took place on the evening of September 25, 2004, in an old house on an island in Maine. Because contrastive rhetoric (CR) may be at a crucial point in its history – and one which invites fundamental rethinking – we decided to match this exploratory moment with an equally exploratory genre: the academic conversation. Our intent was not to come to univocal agreement or to state a general theory; instead, we sought to develop our thoughts and feelings about CR through friendly but serious dialogue. It should be clear that both of us have complex feelings about CR. We thought that this was an opportune place from which to begin to examine its future possibilities and implications.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
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Section I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric
- From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric: A search for collective identity 11
- The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies 25
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Section II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres
- Metadiscourse across three varieties of English: American, British, and advanced learner English 45
- A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China 63
- Different cultures – different discourses? Rhetorical patterns of business letters by English and Russian speakers 87
- Spanish language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. 123
- The rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature: An English-Spanish cross-linguistic approach 147
- Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia: A contrastive genre study 169
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Section III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing
- "Long sentences and floating commas": Mexican students' rhetorical practices and the sociocultural context 195
- English web page use in an EFL setting: A contrastive rhetoric view of the development of information literacy 219
- From Confucianism to Marxism: A century of theme treatment in Chinese writing instruction 241
- Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context: What we can learn about one from the other 257
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Section IV. Future directions
- A conversation on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda talk about issues, conceptualizations, and the future of contrastive rhetoric 277
- Mapping multidimensional aspects of research: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric 299
- Notes on contributors 317
- Index 321
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents vii
- Introduction 1
-
Section I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric
- From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric: A search for collective identity 11
- The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies 25
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Section II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres
- Metadiscourse across three varieties of English: American, British, and advanced learner English 45
- A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China 63
- Different cultures – different discourses? Rhetorical patterns of business letters by English and Russian speakers 87
- Spanish language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. 123
- The rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature: An English-Spanish cross-linguistic approach 147
- Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia: A contrastive genre study 169
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Section III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing
- "Long sentences and floating commas": Mexican students' rhetorical practices and the sociocultural context 195
- English web page use in an EFL setting: A contrastive rhetoric view of the development of information literacy 219
- From Confucianism to Marxism: A century of theme treatment in Chinese writing instruction 241
- Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context: What we can learn about one from the other 257
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Section IV. Future directions
- A conversation on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda talk about issues, conceptualizations, and the future of contrastive rhetoric 277
- Mapping multidimensional aspects of research: Reaching to intercultural rhetoric 299
- Notes on contributors 317
- Index 321
