Constrative ESP Rhetoric: Metatext in Spanish-English Economics Texts  

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Vallero-Garces, Carmen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 4 (1996), page 279-294.
Fulltext: 15_04_Valero-Garcés.pdf (956.13KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The research presented in this paper offers a contrastive text-linguistic study of rhetorical differences between texts written by academics with different cultural backgrounds, but using as a means of expression the same language: English. The paper is based on some previously published articles comparing English with other languages (Clyne 1987; Galtung 1979; Mauranen 1993), but in a different context in order to determine whether the results derived from the comparison between texts written in English by native speakers and non-native speakers coincide. As a result of analysing the data, I agree with Mauranen that, despite a relative uniformity of academic papers imposed by requirements of the genre, there is intercultural variation in the rhetorical preferences of writers. The cultural differences between texts written in English by Spanish-speaking academics and by Anglo-American academics are explored with respect to metatext used in papers from economics journals. The results indicate that the Anglo-American writers use more metatext, or text about the text, than the Spanish-speaking writers. They also seem to be more concerned with guiding and orienting the reader than the Spanish-speaking writers, and show more explicit presence of the writer in the text. It is suggested that the Anglo-American texts reflect a more reader-oriented attitude, and a generally more explicit textual rhetoric. The Spanish-speaking writers put a greater emphasis on propositional content and favor a more impersonal style of writing, as well as a greater tendency towards implicitness in their writing.

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