Contrastive rhetoric :  issues, insights, and pedagogy / 
edited by Nagwa Kassabgy, Zeinab Ibrahim, Sabiha Aydelott. 
 - xv, 208 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Contrastive rhetoric: old and new directions /  Contrasting Arabic and German school essays /  Rhetoric in English narratives of native speakers and second-language learners /  The Qur'anic definite article in translation: the case of citing animals /  Verbal fluency in bidialectal settings: the case of the Greek Cypriot dialect /  Classical and colloquial Arabic: are they used appropriately by non-native speakers? /  Diglossic switching in the Egyptian speech community: implications for teaching spoken Egyptian Arabic /  The debate over grammar instruction: accommodating both positions /  A constructivist view of learning strategies /  A learner-based approach to writing improvement: using'repertory grid technique' as a learning tool /  Politeness and pragmatic failure: speakers' intentions and hearers' perceptions in L2 apologies /  Hyperbolic expressions in Egyptian Arabic and British English /  Hedging in Arabic: a pragma-syntactic perspective /  Ulla Connor --  Martin Harfmann --  Miranda Y.P. Lee --  Mohammed Farghal,  Izzedin al-Zou'bi --  Andreas Papapavlou --  Mona Kamel Hassan --  Reem Bassiouney --  Georgette Ioup --  Zuhal Okan --  Hülya Yumru,  Jülide Inözü --  Mona M. Osman,  r Paul B. Stevens --  Ola Hafez --  Nahwat A. El-Arousy.  CASES IN WRITING/TRANSLATION: --  DIGLOSSIA: --  STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: --  PRAGMATICS: -- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789774248290 (paperback)  RM105.33 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Contrastive linguistics.<br/>Rhetoric.<br/>Second language acquisition.