Contrastive Rhetoric: Cross-Cultural Aspects of Second Language Writing (Cambridge Applied Linguistics)

By Ulla Connor

Book Overview

This volume explores the field of contrastive rhetoric, the study of how a person's first language and culture influence his or her writing in a second language. It presents a comprehensive view of the research in this field, emphasizing the connections between contrastive rhetoric and the related disciplines of composition studies, cultural anthropology, translation studies, and text linguistics. Connor draws on this research to provide sound advice for dealing with cross-cultural issues in a variety of second language writing contexts. Her goal is to make teachers aware of the many factors influencing their students' attempts to compose effective texts and to help teachers draw on the resources individual learners bring to the writing task. It is a solid reference for researchers and teachers in the field of second language writing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521446880
• ISBN13: 9780521446884
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The state-of-the-art book everybody demanded

Contrastive Rhetoric has been growing since 1966 and nobody had taken care of setting down its theoretical foundations and its reserch methodology until Ulla Connor has done it. The most influential specialist on CR together with Robert B. Kaplan has reviewed its past, clearly described its present and definitely exposed its future. An essential book if you want to learn about Writing across Cultures. Perfect. Fernando Trujillo (ftsaez@platon.ugr.es) Ceuta, Spain