Jonathan Brown
Hosei University
Jonathan Brown holds a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden University. He currently serves as Associate Professor of English and Linguistics in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. His research is mainly concerned with discourse analysis, with a special emphasis on contrastive investigations of L2 learners' writing using a corpus approach.
Sessions
In Defense of Contrastive Rhetoric
In this presentation, I discuss the importance of viewing contrastive rhetoric (CR) as an approach concerned with communication rather than affixing it to the more complex notions of culture and identity, as has been frequently done in the literature. What I do to accomplish this is conceptualize CR within the theoretical framework of common round theory, which I argue is not only the most practical approach to CR but the best way to ensure its full effectiveness.