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Download full textBerge, Kjell Lars – 1992
The notion of "textual norms" refers to sociocultural conventions that define the "well-formedness" of a text. Because well-formedness in texts is characterized by convention, different conventions may exist in a community and lead to norm conflicts when used in actual text generation. In this article, two types of norm conflict are described. In…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Linguistic Theory
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Direct linkCahill, David – Written Communication, 2003
Contrastive rhetoric scholarship researches rhetorical structures across languages to predict the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a second language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages (e.g., English) that are said to exemplify "linearity" and "directness" and Eastern languages (e.g., Chinese,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Rhetorical Theory, Rhetorical Invention, Contrastive Linguistics
