Cultural differences in the organization of research article introductions from the field of educational psychology: English and Chinese

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2814-2825

  Loi, Chek Kim ^a   Sweetnam Evans, Moyra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Academic writing; Communicative intention; Contrastive rhetoric; Genre analysis; Socio cultural factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954565361     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.03.010     Document Type: Article

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