ulla connor
"Three approaches concerning tranfer have dominated: contrastive analysis; error analysis; and its later development, an analysis of the transitional system called 'interlanguage'."
"Non-Anglo-American English as in international language encourages tolerance for nonnative norms of English."
"English readers expect and require landmarks of coherence and unity as they read. The writer needs to provide transitional statements. In Japanese, on the other hand, trasnsitions may be lacking. The reader is expected to piece sections together to make a coherent text."
"In addition to emphasizing the personal growth and integration inherent in such self-evaluation, social constructionist theory in L1 composition has allied itself with an anti-authoritarian ideology."
"...critical pedagogy...has not been embraced by ESL teachers and researchers..."
Showing posts with label contrastive rhetoric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contrastive rhetoric. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The role of repetition in Arabic argumentative discourse
adnan j.r. al-jubouri
"the different types of formal devices that Arabic employs for expressing repetition and achieving rhetorical effect."
"Repetition in Arabic discourse...is realized at several levels...the morphological level, the word level, and the 'chunk' level."
"k-t-b has to do with writing"
"Notice that the repetition of a morphological pattern creates repetition on the phonological level if said aloud, which intensifies the effect of repetition."
"English discourse rules, codified in rhetoric textbooks under 'variety in word choice', encourage writers to avoid repetition of this sort. The converse is true in Arabic."
"They occur in English in a number of frozen, or semi-frozen idiomatic expressions, particularly in legal English where they are known as 'doublets'.
"The consttuents in the word strings of this group are antonyms or near-antonyms. This is an old rhetorical device in Arabic and has been used for centuries in poetry as well as in prose."
"When reiterated through an argument they tend to create an immediate emotional impact."
"Parallelism is a rhetorical as well as text-building device."
"The tendency towards forceful assertion also explains what, in the eye of a Western recipient, appears to be a florid and verbose style of argumentative discourse. Brevity will simply fail to convey the required effect."
"the different types of formal devices that Arabic employs for expressing repetition and achieving rhetorical effect."
"Repetition in Arabic discourse...is realized at several levels...the morphological level, the word level, and the 'chunk' level."
"k-t-b has to do with writing"
"Notice that the repetition of a morphological pattern creates repetition on the phonological level if said aloud, which intensifies the effect of repetition."
"English discourse rules, codified in rhetoric textbooks under 'variety in word choice', encourage writers to avoid repetition of this sort. The converse is true in Arabic."
"They occur in English in a number of frozen, or semi-frozen idiomatic expressions, particularly in legal English where they are known as 'doublets'.
"The consttuents in the word strings of this group are antonyms or near-antonyms. This is an old rhetorical device in Arabic and has been used for centuries in poetry as well as in prose."
"When reiterated through an argument they tend to create an immediate emotional impact."
"Parallelism is a rhetorical as well as text-building device."
"The tendency towards forceful assertion also explains what, in the eye of a Western recipient, appears to be a florid and verbose style of argumentative discourse. Brevity will simply fail to convey the required effect."
"Expository paragraph structure in Slavic and Romance languages"
paul neubauer and elizabeth riddle
Kaplan claimed that English is more linear and contains fewer digressions than Slavic or Romance texts.
This study found that "the Romance and Slavic paragraphs in our sample exhibited no more digression than the English paragraphs. Furthermore, in none of the cases does this data support a claim that digressiveness is typical of expository prose paragraphs in that language."
Kaplan's doodles should not be repeated by other researchers as "gospel."
Kaplan claimed that English is more linear and contains fewer digressions than Slavic or Romance texts.
This study found that "the Romance and Slavic paragraphs in our sample exhibited no more digression than the English paragraphs. Furthermore, in none of the cases does this data support a claim that digressiveness is typical of expository prose paragraphs in that language."
Kaplan's doodles should not be repeated by other researchers as "gospel."
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