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Publication details [#55239]

Taft, Marcus, Denisse Kacanas, Winnie Huen and Ramony Chan. 2011. An empirical demonstration of contrastive rhetoric: Preference for rhetorical structure depends on one's first language. Intercultural Pragmatics 8 (4) : 503–516.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

contrastiveness | discourse analysis | evaluation | rhetoric

Language as a subject

Chinese | English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IPRG/html

Annotation

This evaluation of English written texts, respectively produced by monolingual English, Chinese-English and Spanish-English speakers, offers empirical support for preferences for own-language group rhetorical structure, thus also for the notion of contrastive rhetoric.