Contrastive Rhetoric: Students as Ethnographers
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Toward critical contrastive rhetoric
A traditional approach to contrastive rhetoric has emphasized cultural difference in rhetorical patterns among various languages. Despite its laudable pedagogical intentions to raise teachers’ and students’ cultural and rhetorical awareness in second language writing, traditional contrastive rhetoric has perpetuated static binaries between English and other languages and viewed students as cult...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Basic Writing
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0147-1635
DOI: 10.37514/jbw-j.1988.7.2.02