The Myth of the “Turn” in Contrastive Rhetoric

Written Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 170-194

  Cahill, David ^a  

^a ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese rhetoric; comparative rhetoric; composition studies; constrastive rhetoric; contrastive linguistics; Japanese rhetoric; rhetorical text structure; second language writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 3342887595     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088303020002003     Document Type: Article

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