Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second-Language Writing

1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 377
Author(s):  
Kirsten Precht ◽  
Ulla Connor
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Language Writing

CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC REVISITED AND REDEFINED. Clayann Gilliam Panetta (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001. Pp. xx + 134. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.

2003 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
Douglas Biber
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Text Types ◽  
Extensive Range ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
Different Cultures

Contrastive rhetoric—an analytical framework for the study of second language writing—has had incredible staying power. Since Kaplan's (1966) original paper, this framework has been used in dozens of studies that compare the rhetorical organizations of written texts produced by writers from different cultures and native languages (L1s). Additionally, the framework has been elaborated and refined considerably to account for the extensive range of linguistic variability found among written texts from different text types; more recent treatments include Grabe and Kaplan (1996, chap. 7) and Connor (1996).

scholarly journals VIEWING CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC FROM A POST MODERN PERSPECTIVE: FINDING AN IMPLICATION TO THE SECOND LANGUAGE WRITING PEDAGOGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Susilo Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Second Language Writing ◽  
Writing Pedagogy ◽  
Contrastive Rhetoric ◽  
Multilingual Writers ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
Language Writing ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Modern Perspective

The hybrid nature of culture that comes up as a result of postmodern world brings about considerable interaction, borrowing, and fusion between cultures and communicative genres. In such situation, there is erosion of national boundaries, greater multilingualism, and fluidity in identity; hence a" absolute construct of particular culture is getting blurred. Consequently, the term "native identity" has come to a "blurring spot" in the sense that it will be simply awkward to hold firmly one's native identity when multilingualism has become norm. This hybridand plural character of identity has gone to be considerable as the basis of contrastive texts analysis. The newest way of looking at the contrastive rhetoric is that differences in pragmatic or rhetorical expectations should not be considered as unproficiency or interference for the bi/multilingual writer, rather rhetorical choices opted by the bi/multilingual writer should be considered as critical/alternate discourse. This article is aimed to look at the pedagogy of shuttling between languages done by multilingual writers as the new orientation in the teaching and learning second language writing.

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