Abstract

PART 1 PRELIMINARIES: EARLY PHASES OF THE FIELD 1 Toward an extended definition of contrastive rhetoric 2 Contrastive rhetoric studies in applied linguistics 3 Historical evaluation of contrastive rhetoric: from Kaplan's 1966 study to diversification in languages, genres, and authors PART 2 INTERFACES WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES 4 Contrastive rhetoric and the field of rhetoric and composition 5 Contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics 6 Writing as an activity embedded in a culture 7 Contrastive rhetoric and translation studies 8 Genre-specific studies in contrastive rhetoric PART 3 IMPLICATIONS OF CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC 9 Methods of research in contrastive rhetoric 10 Conclusion: Implications and research directions