Contrastive rhetoric : reaching to intercultural rhetoric / / edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2008] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) |
Disciplina | 808 |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond new series |
Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric - Social aspects
Intercultural communication English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers |
ISBN |
1-282-15213-0
9786612152139 90-272-9146-2 |
Classificazione | 17.62 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Contrastive rhetoric [[electronic resource] ] : reaching to intercultural rhetoric / / edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | viii, 324 p |
Disciplina | 808 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
NagelhoutEd RozyckiWilliam V |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond new series |
Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric - Social aspects
Intercultural communication English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15213-0
9786612152139 90-272-9146-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Contrastive rhetoric : reaching to intercultural rhetoric / / edited by Ulla Connor, Ed Nagelhout, William V. Rozycki |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 328 pages) |
Disciplina | 808 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
NagelhoutEd RozyckiWilliam V |
Collana | Pragmatics & beyond new series |
Soggetto topico |
Rhetoric - Social aspects
Intercultural communication English language - Study and teaching - Foreign speakers |
ISBN |
1-282-15213-0
9786612152139 90-272-9146-2 |
Classificazione | 17.62 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Contrastive Rhetoric -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Critiques of contrastive rhetoric -- New directions in contrastive rhetoric research -- Approaches highlighted in this volume -- References -- I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric -- From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric -- References -- The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies -- Introduction -- Contrastive rhetoric questions -- Definition of parallel corpora -- The concept of equivalence in parallel corpus designs -- A model of the communication process -- Research variables in cross-cultural studies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres -- Metadiscourse across three varieties of English -- Reflexivity in language -- The reflexive model of metadiscourse -- Material -- Results -- The influencing factors -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China -- Introduction -- The study -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Different cultures - Different discourses? -- Introduction -- The study -- Results and discussion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Spanish-language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. -- Introduction -- Quantitative and stylistic analysis of editorials -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- The rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature -- Introduction -- Research questions and variables -- Data -- Method of analysis -- Contrastive results -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia -- Introduction -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements.
Texts analyzed -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing -- "Long sentences and floating commas" -- Introduction -- The study -- Functional discourse analysis -- Ethnographic study -- Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- English Web page use in an EFL setting -- Introduction -- Observational methods -- The study -- Context -- Method -- Participants -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- From Confucianism to Marxism -- Neo-Confucian themes in the late Qing Dynasty (1664-1911) -- Diversified themes in Republican China (1912-1949) -- Socialist themes in Maoist China (1949-1976) -- Depoliticized themes in Post-Mao China (1977-present) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context -- The paradigmatic nature of intercultural rhetoric -- The historical relationship between plagiarism and intellectual property -- Variable definitions of plagiarism and intellectual property -- Current and future developments -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- IV. Future directions -- A conversation on contrastive rhetoric -- Introduction -- First experiences with CR -- Renaming and reconceptualizing CR -- Contrastive rhetoric as a field? -- Future directions for CR -- References -- Mapping multidimensional aspects of research -- Introduction -- History of contrastive rhetoric -- Where should contrastive rhetoric go? -- Postmodern mapping helps conceptualize contrastive rhetoric -- Accommodation and structuration: Factors to consider -- From contrastive to intercultural rhetoric -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- The Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series. |
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Discourse in the professions [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from corpus linguistics / / edited by Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 333 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 418/.00285 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sublanguage - Data processing
Discourse analysis - Data processing |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-16017-6
9786612160172 90-272-9504-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453343203321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 | ||
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Discourse in the professions [[electronic resource] ] : perspectives from corpus linguistics / / edited by Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 333 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 418/.00285 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sublanguage - Data processing
Discourse analysis - Data processing |
ISBN |
1-282-16017-6
9786612160172 90-272-9504-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782595603321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 | ||
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Discourse in the professions : perspectives from corpus linguistics / / edited by Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica | vi, 333 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 418/.00285 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico |
Sublanguage - Data processing
Discourse analysis - Data processing |
ISBN |
1-282-16017-6
9786612160172 90-272-9504-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Discourse in the Professions -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Section I -- The argument for using English specialized corpora to understand academic and professional language -- References -- Notes -- Section II -- A convincing argument: Corpus analysis and academic persuasion -- References -- Academic language: An exploration of university classroom and textbook language -- References -- Stylistic features of academic speech: The role of formulaic expressions -- References -- Notes -- Section III -- Legal discourse: Opportunities and threats for corpus linguistics -- Appendix 5 -- Appendix 4 -- Appendix 3 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 1 -- References -- "Invisible to us": A preliminary corpus-based study ofspoken business English -- Appendix -- References -- // did you TOOK // from the miniBAR //: What is the practical relevance of a corpus-driven language study to practitioners in Hong Kong's hotel industry? -- Appendix 1 -- References -- Note -- Acknowledgement -- // so what have YOU been WORKing on REcently //: Compiling a specialized corpus of spoken business English -- References -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Section IV -- The genre of grant proposals: A corpus linguistic analysis -- References -- Notes -- Rhetorical appeals in fundraising direct mail letters -- Appendix A -- References -- Framing matters: Communicating relationships through metaphor in fundraising texts -- References -- Note -- Pronouns and metadiscourse as interpersonal rhetorical devices in fundraising letters: A corpus linguistic analysis -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815479503321 |
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c2004 | ||
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Discourse on the move [[electronic resource] ] : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure / / Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Autore | Biber Douglas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 289 p. : ill. ; ; 25 cm |
Disciplina | 401/.41 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico | Discourse analysis - Data processing |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-15256-4
9786612152566 90-272-9191-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454334303321 |
Biber Douglas | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 | ||
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Discourse on the move [[electronic resource] ] : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure / / Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Autore | Biber Douglas |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 289 p. : ill. ; ; 25 cm |
Disciplina | 401/.41 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico | Discourse analysis - Data processing |
ISBN |
1-282-15256-4
9786612152566 90-272-9191-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782175303321 |
Biber Douglas | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 | ||
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Discourse on the move : using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure / / Douglas Biber, Ulla Connor, Thomas A. Upton |
Autore | Biber Douglas |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 289 p. : ill. ; ; 25 cm |
Disciplina | 401/.41 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ConnorUlla <1948->
UptonThomas A (Thomas Albin) |
Collana | Studies in corpus linguistics |
Soggetto topico | Discourse analysis - Data processing |
ISBN |
1-282-15256-4
9786612152566 90-272-9191-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Discourse on the Move -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- 1. Discourse analysis and corpus linguistics -- 1 Discourse and discourse analysis -- 1.1 Discourse studies of language use -- 1.2 Discourse studies of linguistic structure 'beyond the sentence' -- 1.3 Discourse studies of social practices and ideological assumptions associated with communication -- 1.4 "Register" and "genre" perspectives on discourse -- 1.5 Identifying structural units in discourse -- 2 Corpus-based investigation of discourse structure -- 3 Top-down versus bottom-up corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis -- 3.1 Examples of top-down analyses of discourse -- 3.2 Example of bottom-up approach -- 4 Creating a specialized corpus for discourse analysis -- 5 Overview of the book -- Part I. Top-down analyses of discourse organization -- 2. Introduction to move analysis -- 1 Background -- 2 Swales' move analysis of research articles -- 3 Move analysis of research articles applied across genres -- 3.1 Description and examples -- 3.2 Summary of previous research on move analysis -- 4 Overview of the methods for move analysis -- 4.1 General steps of a move analysis -- 4.2 Inter-rater reliability -- 5 Using a corpus-based approach to move analysis -- 5.1 Corpus-based move analysis -- 5.2 General advantages of corpus-based approaches to discourse analysis -- 5.3 Specific advantages of a corpus-based perspective for move analysis -- 5.3.1 Identifying linguistic features of moves -- 5.3.2 Move frequencies and lengths -- 5.3.3 Mapping move use and locations -- 5.3.4 Genre prototypes -- 6 Summary -- 3. Identifying and analyzing rhetorical moves in philanthropic discourse -- 1 Background -- 2 A specialized corpus of fundraising texts -- 3 Determining and analyzing discourse moves: Direct mail letters.
3.1 Previous analysis of direct mail letters -- 3.2 A move analysis of fundraising letters: Background and methodology -- 3.2.1 Move types -- 3.2.2 Structural elements -- 3.3 Analysis -- 3.4 Results -- 3.5 Discussion -- 3.6 Letter prototypes -- 4 Linguistic analysis of moves: Tracking the use of stance structures -- 4.1 Identifying grammatical stance devices -- 4.2 Interpreting the use of grammatical stance devices used in moves -- 5 Final thoughts -- 4. Rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles -- 1 Background -- 2 Description of the corpus -- 3 Determining the move categories in the genre of biochemistry research articles -- 3.1 The Introduction section -- 3.2 The Methods section -- 3.3 The Results section -- 3.4 The Discussion section -- 4 Coding moves in the corpus of biochemistry research articles -- 5 Distribution of move types within texts from the biochemistry corpus -- 6 Linguistic characteristics of rhetorical moves in biochemistry research articles -- 7 Linguistic variation among move categories in biochemistry research articles -- 8 Multi-dimensional variation among move types within the same section -- 5. Rhetorical appeals in fundraising -- 1 Elements of Persuasion -- 2 Determining and analyzing rhetorical appeals -- 2.1 Rational appeals (Logos) -- 2.2 Credibility appeals (Ethos) -- 2.3 Affective appeals (Pathos) -- 3 Analysis, segmentation, and classification -- 3.1 Results and discussion -- 4 Linguistic description of appeals -- 4.1 Wordlists -- 4.2 Keywords -- 5 Appeals and discourse structure of letters -- 6 Conclusion -- Part II. Bottom-up analyses of discourse organization -- 6. Introduction to the identification and analysis of vocabulary-based discourse units -- 1 Conceptual introduction to VBDUs -- 2 Automatic identification of VBDUs in texts -- 3 Perceptual correlates of VBDUs. 4 Using VBDUs to analyze the discourse structure of texts -- 5 Going one step further: Identifying generalizable VBDU 'types' -- 7. Vocabulary-based discourse units in biology research articles -- 1 Constructing the corpus of VBDUs -- 2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs: Multi-dimensional analysis -- 3 Comparing the multi-dimensional characteristics of research article sections -- 4 The multi-dimensional profile of VBDUs within a research article: Tracking the movement of discourse -- 5 Identifying and interpreting the multi-dimensional text types of biology research articles -- 6 Using VBDU text types to describe the discourse organizational patterns of biology research articles -- 7 Starting and ending research article sections -- 7.1 Describing the typical discourse organizations of Introductions -- 7.2 Describing the typical discourse organizations of methods sections -- 7.3 Describing the typical discourse organizations of discussion sections -- 8 Preferred text type sequences across research article section boundaries -- 9 Comparing the preferred discourse styles of research journals -- 10 Conclusion -- 8. Vocabulary-based discourse units in university class sessions -- 1 From constructing a corpus of VBDUs to identifying VBDU text-types -- 1.1 Constructing a corpus of VBDUs -- 1.2 Analyzing the linguistic characteristics of VBDUs applying MD analytical techniques -- 1.3 VBDUs and dimension scores: the multi-dimensional profile of the first three VBDUs of a business management class -- 2 Dimension scores and VBDU text-types -- 2.1 Interpreting the clusters as VBDU types based on their linguistic characteristics -- 2.1.1 Cluster 1: Personalized framing -- 2.1.2 Cluster 2: Informational monologue -- 2.1.3 Cluster 3: Contextual interactive -- 2.1.4 Cluster 4: Unmarked -- 3 From VBDU text-types to discourse structure. 3.1 Functional interpretation of VBDU types -- 3.2 Text as sequences of VBDU types -- 4 Summary and conclusion -- 9. Conclusion -- 1 Overview -- 2 Comparing the top-down and bottom-up descriptions of biology research articles. -- 2.1 Discourse units in biology research articles -- 2.2 The dimensions of linguistic variation in biology research articles -- 2.3 The functional and linguistic characteristics of the discourse types (move types vs VBDU types) in biology research articles -- 2.4 Description of the typical discourse organization of biology research articles -- 3 Summary and prospects for future research -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2: -- References -- Index -- The series Studies in Corpus Linguistics. |
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Biber Douglas | ||
Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007 | ||
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Reflections on multiliterate lives [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Clevedon, England ; ; Buffalo, N.Y., : Multilingual Matters, c2001 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 211 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 404/.2 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BelcherDiane Dewhurst <1951->
ConnorUlla <1948-> |
Collana | Bilingual education and bilingualism |
Soggetto topico |
Multilingualism
Literacy Autobiographies |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-73925-8
9786610739257 1-85359-704-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors’ Introduction -- The Fortunate Traveler: Shuttling between Communities and Literacies by Economy Class -- Initiating into Academic Community: Some Autobiographical Reflections -- Reminiscences of a Multilingual Life: A Personal Case History -- Developing Literacy Can and Should Be Fun: But Only Sometimes Is -- Straddling Three Worlds -- How a Speaker of Two Second Languages Becomes a Writer in a Foreign Language -- From L1 to L12: The Confessions of a Sometimes Frustrated Multiliterate -- My Experience of Learning to Read and Write in Japanese as L1 and English as L2 -- An Introspective Account of L2 Writing Acquisition -- Writing from Chinese to English: My Cultural Transformation -- Learning Is a Lifelong Process -- Linguistic Experiences of a Mathematical Career -- Taking the Best from a Number of Worlds: An Interview with Hooshang Hemami -- Growing up Trilingual: Memories of an Armenian/Arabic/English Speaker -- How Can I Help Make a Difference? An Interview with Robert Agunga -- A Professional Academic Life in Two Languages: An Interview with María Juliá -- On Being a Citizen of the World: An Interview with Luis Proenza -- Appendix |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455687803321 |
Clevedon, England ; ; Buffalo, N.Y., : Multilingual Matters, c2001 | ||
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