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Peer reviewedMauranen, Anna – English for Specific Purposes, 1993
A contrastive textlinguistic study of rhetorical differences between texts written by academics with different cultural backgrounds is described. The results indicate that Anglo-American writers use more metatext or text about text than Finnish writers, suggesting a more reader-oriented attitude among Anglo-American writers. (27 references)…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Cultural Differences, Economics, English
