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SUMMARY:New Developments in Contrastive Rhetoric: Going beyond Text - Jins
 hi Shao
DTSTART:20150121T130000Z
DTEND:20150121T140000Z
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CONTACT:Simin Zeng
DESCRIPTION:Contrastive Rhetoric (CR) examines differences and similaritie
 s in writing across languages and cultures. Despite being largely restrict
 ed to a rigid form\, ESL student essay writing\, in its first three decade
 s\, today the area of study has developed into a promising domain of L2 wr
 iting research with rich theoretical foundations in both linguistics and r
 hetoric. In today’s talk\, we will first briefly review the historical d
 evelopment of CR since Robert Kaplan’s seminal work in 1966. We will the
 n focus on the new trends in CR – from mere text analysis to context-sen
 sitive text analysis – and the theoretical and methodological developmen
 ts underlying the shift. We will conclude with a discussion on the possibl
 e pedagogical implications CR research can generate. 
LOCATION:Room 2S4\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 
 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ
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