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.
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, newsp
