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Publication details [#50165]

Ying, H.G. 2000. The origin of contrastive rhetoric revisited. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 10 (2) : 259–268.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastive method | culture | ethnography of speaking | language use | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

Reviewing the origin of early contrastive rhetoric, this study argues that Kaplan's (1966) view seems to reinforce Hymes' ethnography of communication position stating that culture rather than the linguistic form makes up the frame of reference for language use.