Contrastive Rhetoric -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Critiques of contrastive rhetoric -- New directions in contrastive rhetoric research -- Approaches highlighted in this volume -- References -- I. Current state of contrastive rhetoric -- From contrastive rhetoric to intercultural rhetoric -- References -- The importance of comparable corpora in cross-cultural studies -- Introduction -- Contrastive rhetoric questions -- Definition of parallel corpora -- The concept of equivalence in parallel corpus designs -- A model of the communication process -- Research variables in cross-cultural studies -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- II. Contrastive corpus studies in specific genres -- Metadiscourse across three varieties of English -- Reflexivity in language -- The reflexive model of metadiscourse -- Material -- Results -- The influencing factors -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A genre-based study of research grant proposals in China -- Introduction -- The study -- Results and discussion -- Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Different cultures - Different discourses? -- Introduction -- The study -- Results and discussion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Spanish-language newspaper editorials from Mexico, Spain, and the U.S. -- Introduction -- Quantitative and stylistic analysis of editorials -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- The rhetorical structure of academic book reviews of literature -- Introduction -- Research questions and variables -- Data -- Method of analysis -- Contrastive results -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Newspaper commentaries on terrorism in China and Australia -- Introduction -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements.

Texts analyzed -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- III. Contrastive rhetoric and the teaching of ESL/EFL writing -- "Long sentences and floating commas" -- Introduction -- The study -- Functional discourse analysis -- Ethnographic study -- Conclusions and implications -- Acknowledgements -- References -- English Web page use in an EFL setting -- Introduction -- Observational methods -- The study -- Context -- Method -- Participants -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- From Confucianism to Marxism -- Neo-Confucian themes in the late Qing Dynasty (1664-1911) -- Diversified themes in Republican China (1912-1949) -- Socialist themes in Maoist China (1949-1976) -- Depoliticized themes in Post-Mao China (1977-present) -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Plagiarism in an intercultural rhetoric context -- The paradigmatic nature of intercultural rhetoric -- The historical relationship between plagiarism and intellectual property -- Variable definitions of plagiarism and intellectual property -- Current and future developments -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix -- IV. Future directions -- A conversation on contrastive rhetoric -- Introduction -- First experiences with CR -- Renaming and reconceptualizing CR -- Contrastive rhetoric as a field? -- Future directions for CR -- References -- Mapping multidimensional aspects of research -- Introduction -- History of contrastive rhetoric -- Where should contrastive rhetoric go? -- Postmodern mapping helps conceptualize contrastive rhetoric -- Accommodation and structuration: Factors to consider -- From contrastive to intercultural rhetoric -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Notes on contributors -- Index -- The Pragmatics & Beyond New Series.