Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter‐cultural Education

Kaplan, Robert B.

doi:10.1111/j.1467-1770.1966.tb00804.x

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“…The findings extend present understanding of the complex interplay of culture and writing as opposed to the simplistic contrastive rhetoric notion in Kaplan (1966), where Asian rhetoric was described as circular in nature. This study corroborates some findings in the extent literature particularly those which dealt with Asian writing traditions (Morales, 2013;Mercado, 2009).…”

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Physical and Topical Structures of Manpower Discourse: A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis in Southeast Asia

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2015

GEMA Online

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This paper explores the physical and topical structures of thirty paragraphs culled from websites of Philippine, Indonesian and Malaysian manpower agencies. Drawing on the frameworks of Simpson (2000) and Lautamatti (1987), the study describes potential regional (Southeast Asian) and national preferences of writers on a subgenre of L2 professional writing, called manpower discourse (MD). The physical structure analysis points to slight but statistically insignificant differences between the data sets. Such analysis aids in the description of a possible regional preference in the physical structure of MD in Southeast Asia, which appeals to directness and simplicity. The topical structure analysis (TSA) shows that there is a stronger demand for internal coherence in Philippine MD, compared with Indonesian MD and Malaysian MD. Specifically, the analysis reveals that topical development is more sophisticated in Philippine MD attributed to the use of some form of topical reoccurrence and some kind of topical progressions in all paragraphs, which was not observed in the internal structure of paragraphs from Indonesian and Malaysian MD. Moreover, Philippine MD seems to keep up with one valued characteristic of composition in English: to develop ideas using sequential and extended parallel progressions. Also, topical depth is found to be most elaborate in Philippine MD than in the Indonesian and Malaysian counterparts. The paper closes with a discussion of implications for professional writing, specific to manpower discourse and teaching writing coherence based on socially and culturally relevant inputs.

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“…Another strong point of TSA is that it matches what Kaplan (1966) describes as the "internal structure of a paragraph," which is said to possess culturally distinct characteristics,. Lautamatti's (1987) TSA was designed to identify the internal structure of paragraphs by plotting the repetition of key words and phrases.…”

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Physical and Topical Structures of Manpower Discourse: A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis in Southeast Asia

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2015

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“…The interpretation of the global expression of evaluation was made from a pragmatic perspective (Brown & Levinson 1987). Finally, a cross-disciplinary approach (Kaplan 1966) underlies the exploration of all these aspects in the discussion sessions of two specialised conference paper presentations on Applied Linguistics and Chemistry.…”

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Evaluation in discussion sessions of conference presentations: theoretical foundations for a multimodal analysis

Querol-Julián¹,

Fortanet-Gómez²

2016

KLB

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Discussions sessions have not received much attention within the genre of conference presentations. In this paper, we present the theoretical framework that underlies the approach followed to analyse the multimodal expression of evaluation. Then, an example of the application of the study has been considered necessary to understand it. Corpus linguistics provided the indications to collect the corpus, annotate it and find the appropriate software to digitalise the relevant information for the study. Secondly, genre studies and conversational analysis gave the clues to establish a structure in the linguistic expressions found in the discussion sessions of paper presentations. Thirdly, systemic functional linguistics and pragmatics provided the basis for an evaluative scheme that could be applied to the academic discourse of the corpus, considering its multimodal nature. Fourthly, the tools to observe the non-verbal communication associated with evaluative language were found in multimodal discourse analysis studies. All together, the application of these variables led to an original study of discussion sessions, which deployed interesting results.

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“…In terms of product, studies of compositions by L2 writers focus mainly on contrastive rhetoric by analyzing the transfer of L1 rhetorical patterns into L2 writing (Kaplan, 1966). This cross-linguistic influence has been accounted for not only in terms of cultural differences, but also more recently in reference to developmental and cognitive factors.…”

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A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency

Huang¹,

Liang²,

Dracopoulos³

2011

ELT

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Up to now, most researchers have been paying attention to the negative transfer of mother tongue to second language writing. Few studies, if any, have touched upon the positive transfer. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the positive transfer of Chinese to 26 first-year university students' English writing holistically and segmentally in the use of words, grammar, coherence, and content and organization. The result of the Pearson correlation coefficient turned out to be 0.43 at the 5% significance level, indicating a positive relationship between the Chinese writing and the English writing. The questionnaires have also confirmed the result of the correlation analysis. In particular, the positive transfer of Chinese seems to be more apparent in the content and organization of the English writing, followed by coherence and use of words. Thus, it can be concluded that the positive transfer of mother tongue can facilitate English writing.

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Cultural Thought Patterns in Inter‐cultural Education

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Physical and Topical Structures of Manpower Discourse: A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis in Southeast Asia

Physical and Topical Structures of Manpower Discourse: A Contrastive Rhetoric Analysis in Southeast Asia

Evaluation in discussion sessions of conference presentations: theoretical foundations for a multimodal analysis

A Study on the Relationship between University Students’ Chinese Writing Proficiency and Their English Writing Proficiency

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