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Harun, Harryizman; Othman, Azliza; Annamalai, Subashini – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
The motif of the folktale is essentially the smallest and striking elements of narrative content with the ability to endure in tradition. It is divided into three categories: actor, item and single incident. These categories become the foundation that supports the built of the original motif-index of folk literature by Stith Thompson.…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Literature, Text Structure, Computational Linguistics
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Tongpoon-Patanasorn, Angkana; Thumnong, Phanupong – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2020
Many scholars agree that cultural differences affect text organization and pragmatic realization of the communicative goal of a genre, and that certain moves within a genre can be accomplished by different strategies. However, there is a dearth of research on job application letters in the context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Applicants, Job Application, Letters (Correspondence)
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Sibarani, Berlin; Pandia, Betharia – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This study was intended to describe the relation between students' reasoning and their ethnicities. Comparison between the argumentative writings written by Javanese and Bataknese students - two of the ethnics found in Indonesia- was conducted to seek shared and variation of reasoning between the two ethnics. Interpretation on the results of such…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
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Connor, Ulla – Research in the Teaching of English, 1990
Identifies a set of linguistic/rhetorical measures which were developed to analyze cross-cultural differences in student argumentative/persuasive writing at the same age level. Compares the writing achievement of students from America, England, and New Zealand to test these measures, and contrasts these results with those produced by holistic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1999
The Communication Theory and Methodology section of the Proceedings contains the following 14 papers: "Press Releases and the 'Bscore': New Statistical Measurement Explored" (Lee Bollinger); "A Systematic Approach to Analyzing the Structure of News Texts" (Michael Schmierbach); "Setting the Proximity Frame: Distance as an…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Cultural Differences, Females, Foreign Countries
Arsyad, Safnil – Online Submission, 2000
This study examined and compared the rhetorical structure of argumentative texts written by three groups of university students: 1) twenty Indonesian texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.I.); 2) ten English texts written by Indonesian native speakers (I.E.); 3) ten English texts written by English native speakers (A.E.). Following the…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Contrastive Linguistics, Indonesian, Cultural Differences