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Publication Date: 2007
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Parallels in Academic and Nonacademic Discursive Styles: An Analysis of a Mexican Woman's Narrative Performance
Barajas, E. Dominguez
Written Communication, v24 n2 p140-167 2007
This article presents a rhetorical analysis of a Mexican woman's oral narrative performance using a discourse studies and interactional sociolinguistics framework. The results of the analysis suggest that the discursive practice of the oral narrative and that of academic discourse share certain rhetorical features. These features are (a) the fashioning of an authoritative voice, (b) the presentation of evidence for support of a claim, (c) the allusion to authorities for support of claims, and (d) the reaching of a general statement concerning the significance of the account. Given the parallels drawn out between this particular nonmainstream oral performance and the discourse of the academy, the assumptions concerning the link between form of expression and cognition must be reassessed to better understand the nature of constrative rhetorics, especially as this affects students of nonmainstream linguistic backgrounds in mainstream writing classrooms. (Contains 1 table and 7 notes.)
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Rhetoric, Mexicans, Rhetorical Criticism, Academic Discourse, Narration, Discourse Analysis, Oral Language, Schemata (Cognition), Writing Instruction, Females
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