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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778848003321

Titolo

Contrastive rhetoric revisited and redefined [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Clayann Gilliam Panetta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mahwah, N.J., : L. Erlbaum Associates, c2001

ISBN

1-135-65655-X

1-282-32723-2

1-4106-0075-0

9786612327230

0-585-34797-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PanettaClayann Gilliam

Disciplina

428/.0071

Soggetti

Contrastive linguistics

English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers

Rhetoric - Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; I CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC REVISITED; 1 Understanding Cultural Differences in the Rhetoric and Composition Classroom: Contrastive Rhetoric as Answer to ESL Dilemmas; 2 Rhetorical Structures for Multilingual and Multicultural Students; 3 Contrastive Rhetoric and Resistance to Writing; 4 Doing Global Business in the Information Age: Rhetorical Contrasts in the Business and Technical Professions; 5 Contrastive Rhetoric Theory in an Electronic Medium: Teaching ESL Writers to Become Bricoleurs in a Computer-Assisted Classroom

II CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC REDEFINED6 Contrastive Rhetoric and the Possibility of Feminism; 7 African-American Women's Rhetorics and the Culture of Eurocentric Scholarly Discourse; 8 The Queen's English: A Queery Into Contrastive Rhetoric; Afterword; About the Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;

Sommario/riassunto

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 dec