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Facework and Rhetorical Strategies in Intercultural Argumentative Discourse

Argumentation, 1998
Intercultural discourse (especially via a lingua franca when interlocutors have a false impression that they are speaking one and the same language) adds a new dimension – facework (the establishment of culture-sensitive politeness strategies) – to the theory and practice of argumentation from a number of perspectives: its specificity as compared to ...
Inga B. Dolinina, Vittorina Cecchetto
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Teaching Intercultural Rhetoric and Professional Communication

2011
This chapter first examines the cultural and rhetorical assumptions implicit in three popular U.S. rhetoric and writing textbooks, denaturalizing the U.S. foundation for these texts and showing how to adapt them to global and intercultural contexts. The second part describes an intercultural rhetoric and writing class that I have been teaching for 13 ...
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From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric: A search for collective identity

2008
Contrastive rhetoric (CR) has come under sharp criticism in recent years. This chapter first traces CR’s emphasis on textual differences in students’ writing to its historical link to formal linguistics, delineating the reach and limitations of such an approach.
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Buddhism and Rhetoric: From an Intercultural Perspective

2019
In the last few decades, globalization has brought an era of immense and unprecedented change that is affecting our lives in every domain and every possible way. The phenomenon of globalization refers to transplanetary processes that involve multi-directional flows of people, objects, places, technologies, and information (Ritzer 2011). Its crucial and
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China encounters Darwinism: A case of intercultural rhetoric

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1995
An important but neglected path to understanding intercultural communication is to explore how influential works of one culture are adapted to the needs, circumstances and thought patterns of another. Yan Fu's Heavenly Evolution, a rhetorical “translation” of Thomas Huxley's Evolution and Ethics, the publication of which resulted in a rapid spread of a
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EXCURSION RHETORIC AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

This study explores the role of excursion rhetoric in enhancing intercultural communication within the tourism industry. Guided excursions serve as crucial platforms for cultural exchange, where tour guides act as mediators between diverse groups of visitors and the cultural, historical, and natural sites they explore.
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Intercultural Rhetoric and Reading Comprehension in a Second Language

Reading Psychology, 2010
Intercultural rhetoric has been studied in the context of second language writing for many decades. This article looks at the topic from a new perspective and offers an experimental study of the effects of intercultural rhetoric on reading comprehension.
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Using intercultural rhetoric to teach poetry: An innovative reading task to build students’ critical thinking

, 2020
S. Ariyanto
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Some American Indian voices: Resources in intercultural rhetoric and interpretation

The Speech Teacher, 1975
American Indian literature useful to the speech scholar and performer may be found in newspapers, magazines, journals, and diaries of the past and the present.
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Simulation Rhetoric and Activity Theory: Experiential Learning in Intercultural Simulations

Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 2019
In the field of intercultural business and technical communication, intercultural communication has been a regular topic in curriculum for decades; various teaching approaches exist for developing students’ cultural awareness and helping them achieve a theoretical understanding about the concept of culture, cultural differences, and cultural conflict.
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