对比修辞是一门相对年轻的跨学科研究分支，主要探讨人们的第一语言与文化对其运用第二语言进行写作时所产生的影响问题。康纳著的《对比修辞(第二语言写作的跨文化层面)/剑桥应用语言学丛书》即为介绍对比修辞领域研究现状的一部学术专著。作者尤拉·康纳(Ulla Connor)为印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯分校的英语教授，是该研究领域的专家。

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Preface xi

Ⅰ PRELIMINARIES; EARLY PHASES OF THE FIELD

 1 Toward an extended definition of contrastive rhetoric Writing in a second language: anecdotal evidence about problems and solutions

 Study of second language writing: the emergence of contrastive rhetoric

 Aims, purposes, and outline of this book

 Building a comprehensive theory of contrastive rhetoric

 2 Contrastive rhetoric studies in applied linguistics Contrastive analysis, error analysis, and analysis of interlanguage

 Development of contrastive rhetoric: parallel with contrastive analysis

 International Englishes

 New directions in contrastive rhetorical research in applied linguistics contexts

 Summary

 3 Historical evolution of contrastive rhetoric: from Kaplan's study to diversification in languages, genres, and authors

 Origins of contrastive rhetoric

 Arabic

 Chinese

 Japanese

 Korean, German, Finnish, Spanish, and Czech

 Summary

Ⅱ INTERFACES WITH OTHER DISCIPLINES

 4 Contrastive rhetoric and the field of rhetoric and composition

 The role of rhetoric and composition in college education in the United States

 Classical rhetoric

 The expressionist approach

 Contrastive rhetoric and the expressionist approach

 Writing as a cognitive approach

 The social constructivist approach

 Summary

 5 Contrastive rhetoric and text linguistics Brief overview of the history of text linguistics; definitions

 Major schools of thought in text linguistics

 Concepts and methods of text linguistics and their application to the study of writing

 NORDTEXT and NORDWRITE text linguistic projects of student writing

 Survey of contrastive rhetorical studies with a text linguistic emphasis

 Summary

 6 Writing as an activity embedded in a culture Definition of "culture"

 Psychological investigations of culture and literacy

 Anthropological study of culture and literacy

 Educational study of culture and literacy Studies of culture and literacy conducted by applied

 linguists

 Summary

 7 Contrastive rhetoric and translation studies

 Development of theories of translation studies

 Transfer in contrastive rhetoric and translation theory Issues in common: theories of "acceptability" and "adequacy"

 in translation

 Summary

 8 Genre-specific studies in contrastive rhetoric The concept of genre

 School writing

 Academic writing

 Professional writing

 Learning academic writing in sociocognitive perspective as a dynamic activity

 Summary

Ⅲ IMPLICATIONS OF CONTRASTIVE RHETORIC

 9 Methods of research in contrastive rhetoric

 Guidance from studies of composition pedagogy

 Methods of contrastive rhetorical research

 Summary and implications

 10 Conclusion: Implications and research directions

 Implications from contrastive text studies

 Implications from contrastive process-based writing

 Implications from contrastive genre-specific research in EFL settings

 Testing ESL/EFL writing in a cross-cultural setting

 Research directions

References

Author index

Subject index