Syntax as a Marker of Rhetorical Organization in Written Texts: Arabic and English.

Mohamed, Aysha H.; Omer, Majzoub R.

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ERIC Number: EJ601520

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Syntax as a Marker of Rhetorical Organization in Written Texts: Arabic and English.

Mohamed, Aysha H.; Omer, Majzoub R.

IRAL, v37 n4 p291-305 Nov 1999

Compared two Arabic stories and their English translations and two Arabic and English stories with reference to sentence organization, coordination, and subordination. Showed that Arabic and English sentences are differently organized, coordination is more common in Arabic than in English, while subordination is more frequent in English than in Arabic. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Arabic, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English, Sentence Structure, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Translation, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Written Language

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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