Author : Ulla Connor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,73 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521446880
Shows how a person's first language and culture influence writing in a second language.
Author : Clayann Gilliam Panetta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2000-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 113565655X
This volume demonstrates the role of contrastive rhetoric in ESL courses, and offers suggestions for using CR toward cultural understanding of rhetorical decisions. For scholars and educators in composition, rhetoric, education, ESL, and related areas.
Author : Nagwa Kassabgy
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789774248290
The essays in this volume explore the field of contrastive rhetoric--the study of how a person's first language (L1) and culture influence the acquisition of another language. Contrastive rhetoric encourages inquiry into various levels of discourse and text, examining the conventions and rhetorical structures of L1 and their influence on the use of another language. It also studies the cognitive dimensions of transfer in relation to both writing and speech. The four sections of this volume--focusing on writing and translation, diglossia, second language acquisition, and pragmatics--cover a broad spectrum of studies in the field of contrastive rhetoric, with essays by some of its leading scholars from Cyprus, Egypt, Hong Kong, Jordan, Tunisia, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The collection will be invaluable to language teachers, students of applied linguistics, and anyone interested in second language acquisition and related issues. Contributors: Nahwat El Arousy, Reem Bassiouney, Ulla Connor, Mohammed Farghal, Ola Hafez, Martin Harfmann, Julide Inozu, Georgette Ioup, Mona Kamel Hassan, Miranda Lee, Zuhal Okan, Mona Osman, Andreas Papapavlou, Paul Stevens, Hulya Yumru, Izzedin al-Zou'bi.
Author : Clayann Gilliam Panetta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2000-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135656541
The theory of contrastive rhetoric was first put forth by Robert Kaplan in the mid 1960s to explain the differences in writing and discourse between students who were native speakers of English and their international counterparts. Over the past three decades, contrastive rhetoric theory has been used primarily by linguists in language centers and involved in ESL teaching. As the number of international students in American universities has continued to grow, contrastive rhetoric has become increasingly relevant to all disciplines, and to rhetoric and composition in particular. This volume breaks important new ground in its examination of contrastive rhetoric in the exclusive context of composition. The editor has assembled contributors with varying areas of specialty to demonstrate how the traditional definition of contrastive rhetoric theory can be applied to composition in new and innovative ways and how it can be redefined through the lens of addressing "difference" issues in writing. Thus, the volume as a whole clarifies how the basic principles of contrastive rhetoric theory can help composition instructors to understand writing and rhetorical decisions. With the inclusion of current research on multicultural issues, this collection is appropriate for all instructors in ESL writing, including teachers in rhetoric, composition, and linguistics. It can also be used as an advanced text for students in these areas. Wherever it is employed, it is certain to offer significant new insights into the application of contrastive rhetoric within the composition discipline.
Author : Ulla Connor
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472034581
It is easy to argue that the need for attention to how we navigate rhetorically within and across cultures has never been greater, given ever-increasing global migrations and seemingly instantaneous global communication. Yet, the conceptual basis of intercultural rhetoric (also known in the past as contrastive rhetoric) has been under fire ever since it first emerged as an area of research and pedagogical interest. In recent years, Ulla Connor has built a steadily more extensive and sophisticated case for how a culturally contextualized study of rhetoric in any media can be carried out without static and reductive over-generalizations about culture/s or rhetoric. This volume provides both an eloquent summation and further theoretical expansion of Connor’s arguments. Readers who have wondered about the possibility of exploring connections between their students’ (or anyone’s) culture and discourse style will find many of their questions addressed in this volume; other readers who have not previously raised such questions will very likely begin to see the value of doing so.
Author : Ulla Connor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027254139
Shows how a person's first language and culture influence writing in a second language.
Author : Paul Bruthiaux
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598494
The essays and research papers in this collection explore current issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning, and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.
Author : Andrew Chesterman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 1998-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027282617
Why is a raven like a writing-desk? The concept of similarity lies at the heart of this new book on contrastive analysis. Similarity judgements depend partly on properties of the objects being compared, and partly on what the person judging considers to be relevant to the assessment; similarity thus has both objective and subjective aspects. The author shows how contrastive analysis and translation theory make use of the concept in different ways, and explains how it relates to the problematic notions of equivalence and tertium comparationis. The book then develops a meaning-based contrastive methodology, and outlines one theory of semantic structure which can be used in this methodology. The approach is illustrated with four sample studies covering different kinds of phenomena in some European languages. The final part of the book proposes an extension of the theoretical framework to cover contrastive rhetoric: the aim is to suggest a unified approach linking aspects of semantics, pragmatics and rhetoric. Keywords: similarity, contrastive analysis, functional grammar, semantics, rhetoric, translation.
Author : Marlis Hellinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 19,34 MB
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110811553
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Basil Hatim
Publisher :
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780859894975
While the literature on either contrastive linguistics or discourse analysis has grown immensely in the last twenty years, very little of it has ventured into fusing the two perspectives. Bearing in mind that doing discourse analysis without a contrastive base is as incomplete as doing contrastive analysis without a discourse base, the specific aim of this book is to argue that translation can add depth and breadth to both contrastive linguistics as well as to discourse analysis. Authentic data from both spoken and written English is used throughout to add clarity to theoretical insights gained from the study of discourse processing. Each aspect of the model proposed for the analysis of texts is related separately to a problem of language processing and in domains as varied as translation, interpreting, language teaching etc. The global objectives pursued in this volume are the training of future linguists and the sensitization of users of language in general to the realities of discourse.
