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Contrastive Rhetoric : Issues, Insights, and Pedagogy

About the Contributors ix Preface xiii Cases in Writing/Translation Contrastive Rhetoric: Old and New Directions 1(24) Ulla Connor Contrasting Arabic and German School Essays 25(22) Martin Harfmann Rhetoric in English Narratives of Native Speakers and Second-language Learners 47(14) Miranda Y.P. Lee The Qur'anic Definite Article in Translation: The Case of Citing Animals 61(8) Mohammed Farghal, Izzedin al-Zou'bi Diglossia Verbal Fluency in Bidialectal Settings: The Case of the Greek Cypriot Dialect 69(14) Andreas Papapavlou Classical and Colloquial Arabic: Are They Used Appropriately by Non-native Speakers? 83(12) Mona Kamel Hassan Diglossic Switching in the Egyptian Speech Community: Implications for Teaching Spoken Egyptian Arabic 95(20) Reem Bassiouney Studies in Second Language Acquisition The Debate over Grammar Instruction: Accommodating Both Positions 115(16) Georgette Ioup A Constructivist View of Learning Strategies 131(12) Zuhal Okan A Learner-based Approach to Writing Improvement: Using "Repertory Grid Technique" as a Learning Tool 143(12) Hülya Yumru, Jülide Inözü Pragmatics Politeness and Pragmatic Failure: Speakers' Intentions and Hearers' Perceptions in L2 Apologies 155 (16) Mona M. Osman, Paul B. Stevens Hyperbolic Expressions in Egyptian Arabic and British English 171 (22) Ola Hafez Hedging in Arabic: A Pragma-syntactic Perspective 193 Nahwat A. El-Arousy