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Creating a Contrastive Rhetorical Stance

RELC Journal, 2006
It is often the case that undergraduates writing essays to fulfil course requirements have an academic audience (i.e. lecturer/s marking the essay) as their target readers. These texts may represent a form of academic writing by novice writers in the process of learning academic discourse and conventions.
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Contrastive rhetoric in World Englishes

English Today, 1995
An analysis of the cultural differences in rhetorical styles across the many varieties of English worldwide, particularly as expressed through ...
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New Directions in Contrastive Rhetoric

TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Contrastive rhetoric examines differences and similarities in writing across cultures. Although mainly concerned with student essay writing in its e rst 30 years, the area of study today contributes to knowledge about preferred patterns of writing in many English for specie c purposes situations.
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Contrastive Rhetoric: An Expanding Paradigm

2014
The seminal paper on contrastive rhetoric (Kaplan, 1966) argues that cultures organise their expository prose in different patterns, and that these differences are due to the fact that rhetorical logic is shaped by the unique distribution of any given culture’s religious beliefs, history, philosophy, economics, and basic value system.
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Negotiating contrasting languages and rhetorics

2019
Ever since Robert Kaplan (1966) introduced the model of contrastive rhetoric, multilingual writing scholars have focused on the comparison and contrast of Chinese and English rhetoric and how those similarities and differences influence Chinese learners’ English learning.
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Discourse theory and “contrastive rhetoric”∗

Discourse Processes, 1986
This paper attempts to appraise Robert Kaplan's “contrastive rhetoric” in the light of a multilanguage research project on discourse structure. It claims that, whereas different languages do favor different rhetorical patterns, Kaplan's specific analyses are in need of substantive revision.
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Rhetorical confinement, contrasting metaphors, and cultural polarities

Metaphor and the Social World, 2018
Abstract In this study we contrast metaphors and metaphorical stories in President Trump’s 2017 inaugural address with those of former President Barack Obama’s first inaugural address. We draw on the concept of ‘rhetorical confinement’ (Patterson, 2011) to show how the contrasting life trajectories of the two leaders are reflected in the contrasting ...
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Contrastive Rhetorics and World Englishes

2011
This chapter provides the linguistic base to intercultural rhetorical research, exploring theories of linguistic relativity and contrastive rhetoric. It contextualizes much of this work into a broader social and cultural framework, showing how intercultural rhetorical patterns are not solely based on language, but also on other values, such as the ...
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Contrastive Rhetoric and Extremist Talk

2019
This chapter examines one particular set of strategies and cultural assumptions which underlie staff decision-making in a middle school. One of the clearest and most lengthy instances of the use of contrastive rhetoric took the form of a discussion about Countesthorpe College, a well-known comprehensive school lying very much outside the mainstream of ...
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A further note on contrastive rhetoric

Communication Quarterly, 1976
The concept of Contrastive Rhetoric was first articulated in 1966. In the intervening decade, a number of studies have been undertaken to test the basic assumption that the organization of paragraphs written in any language by individuals who are not native speakers of that language will be influenced by the rhetorical preferences of the native ...
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