Contrastive rhetoric : issues, insights, and pedagogy / edited by Nagwa Kassabgy, Zeinab Ibrahim, Sabiha Aydelott.

Includes bibliographical references.

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