Diane Belcher

Critical and Corpus-Based Approaches to Intercultural Rhetoric Diane Belcher

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Why Intercultural Rhetoric Needs Critical and Corpus-Based Approaches: An Introduction / Diane Belcher, Gayle Nelson -- Part 1. Corpus and Critical Perspectives -- 1. Corpus Linguistics in Intercultural Rhetoric / Ulla Connor -- 2. Interpreting the Culture in Intercultural Rhetoric: A Critical Perspective from English as a Lingua Franca Studies / Will Baker -- Part 2. Critical-Analytical Approaches -- 3. The Arts of Dwelling Places: Building Ethos in an Online Community / Xiaoye You -- 4. Discriminatory Discursive Strategies Used by the Japanese Mainstream News Media in Constructing the Identity of Resident Foreign Nationals: A Critical Discourse Analysis-Based Examination / Ramon Escamilla -- 5. Bilingual Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis: Promises, Challenges, and Ways Forward / Guillaume Gentil -- Part 3. Corpus-Based Approaches -- 6. Linguistic Characteristics of Intercultural Call Center Interactions: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis / Eric Friginal -- 7. Intercultural Computer-Mediated Communication: Insights from Corpus-Based Analysis / Amanda Lanier Temples, Gayle Nelson -- 8. Analyzing the Semantic Prosody and Semantic Preference of Lexical Bundles / Viviana Cortes, Jack A. Hardy -- Part 4. Next Steps -- 9. From Intercultural Rhetoric to Cosmopolitan Practice: Addressing New Challenges in Lingua Franca English / Suresh Canagarajah -- 10. Intercultural Rhetoric: A Conversation - The Sequel / Dwight Atkinson, Paul Kei Matsuda -- Afterword / Joel Bloch -- Author Bios -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This volume uniquely explores critical "and" corpus-based perspectives on intercultural rhetoric. Many chapters examine what is meant by "culture" and how that affects research and pedagogy, particularly with regard to new forms of literacy. The contents of this book are well situated within a tradition of inquiry that has developed since Kaplan's famous 1966 article while at the same time exploring new areas of interest with new kinds of research tools like corpus linguistics, which has greatly impacted how intercultural rhetoric is researched. The volume has four parts: "Corpus and Critical Perspectives," which features chapters by Ulla Connor and Will Baker; "Critical-Analytical Approaches," which features chapters by Xiaoye You, Ramon Escamilla, and Guillaume Gentil; "Corpus-Based Approaches," which features chapters by Eric Friginal, Amanda Lanier Temples and Gayle Nelson, and Viviana Cortes and Jack A. Hardy; and "Next Steps," which features a chapter by Suresh Canagarajah and the sequel to the conversation between Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda that was begun in 2008. In his Afterword, Joel Bloch has called this volume "a testament to the endurance of intercultural rhetoric."

Contributor Bio:  Belcher, Diane Belcher is director of the ESL Composition Program at Ohio State University.