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Peer reviewedMauranen, Anna – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
A contrastive textlinguistic study of rhetorical differences between texts written by academics with different cultural backgrounds is described. The results indicate that Anglo-American writers use more metatext or text about text than Finnish writers, suggesting a more reader-oriented attitude among Anglo-American writers. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Economics, English
Biber, Douglas – 1995
This text provides a linguistic analysis of discourse register in English, Nukulaelae Tuvaluan, Korean, and Somali, using a multi-dimensional analytical framework and including sociocultural descriptions. Methodology included a description of the text corpora, linguistic features, and computational/statistical techniques used; theoretical issues…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communicative Competence (Languages), Contrastive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics
