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ERIC Number: EJ432967
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1991
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-6001
Linguistic, Cultural, and Subcultural Issues in Contrastive Discourse Analysis: Anglo-American and Chinese Scientific Texts.
Taylor, Gordon; Tingguang, Chen
Applied Linguistics, v12 n3 p319-36 Spr 1991
Focuses on the likely sources of variability in discourse structure by comparing the introductions to papers written in a variety of related disciplines by three groups of physical scientists: Anglo-Americans writing in English, Chinese people writing in English, and Chinese people writing in Chinese. (39 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Chinese, Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Influences, Discourse Analysis, English, English (Second Language), Research Reports, Scientists, Sociolinguistics, Writing (Composition)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - General
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Language: English
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