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Contrastive rhetoric, orientalism, and the Chinese second language writer.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Contrastive rhetoric, orientalism, and the Chinese second language writer./
Author:	Cahill, David.
Description:	410 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A, page: 2901.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-08A.
Subject:	Rhetoric. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9941476
ISBN:	9780599430167

Contrastive rhetoric, orientalism, and the Chinese second language writer.
Cahill, David.

Contrastive rhetoric, orientalism, and the Chinese second language writer. - 410 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-08, Section: A, page: 2901.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 1999.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The field of contrastive rhetoric examines contrasting rhetorical structures across languages with the goal of predicting the difficulties experienced by students learning to write essays in a foreign language. The paradigmatic contrast is between Western languages such as English, exemplifying "linearity" and "directness," and Eastern languages such as Chinese and Japanese, exemplifying "nonlinearity" and "indirectness." This dissertation deconstructs the tropes of linearity and nonlinearity, as well as the Orientalism inherent in the contrastive paradigm, and critically re-examines the English, Chinese, and Japanese essayist traditions. The "rhetoric" of contrastive rhetoric is shown to operate by selectively reducing the rhetorical repertoires of counterposed languages to discrete contrasting instances, while evidence of alternative text structures that do not fit the contrast is downplayed or ignored. The prime examples in contrastive rhetoric of Asian essay structure are the four-part Chinese qi cheng zhuan he and Japanese ki sho ten ketsu, whose third steps are said to represent a "turn." An investigation of Chinese and Japanese scholarship on these two structures shows that the "turn" is not a rhetorical move of "circularity" or "digression" as assumed in the English-language scholarship but serves as the occasion to develop an essay further by alternative means, though there appears to be no consensus in the Chinese and Japanese scholarship on the methods by which to develop essays.

ISBN: 9780599430167Subjects--Topical Terms:

516647
Rhetoric.

Contrastive rhetoric, orientalism, and the Chinese second language writer.
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