Argumentative Style Across Cultures: A Corpus-Based Comparative Study of Standpoint Presentation by Iranian and Norwegian Learners of English

Author(s):
Afzali, Parichehr
Editor(s):
Boogaart, Ronny; Garssen, Bart; Jansen, Henrike; Van Leeuwen, Maarten; Pilgram, Roosmaryn; Reuneker, Alex
Published
2024
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

Abstract

Argumentative texts by English learners may contain L1 rhetorical strategies which may create confusion in international settings. Some cultures encourage standpoint-first structure, whereas others encourage arguments-first. By combining insights from pragma-dialectics and intercultural rhetoric to analyze 40 texts by Iranian and Norwegian university students (English-related majors), from the International Corpus of Learner English (ICLEv3), I investigate students’ placement of standpoint, its relation to complexity of argumentation, and the lexical devices used in the strategic maneuvering.

argumentative stylecorpus researchEnglish learner writingintercultural rhetoricpragma-dialectics
Date issued
2024
Language
English
Is part of
Proceedings of the Tenth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (2024), p. 58-74
hdl
1887/4107749

Conference

Meeting name
10th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation (ISSA 2023)
Meeting location
Leiden, The Netherlands
Meeting date
2023-07-04 - 2023-07-07