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Back, Juhyun. “The Dialogic Features of L1 and L2 Argumentative Writing: The Functions of Questions in Newspaper Editorials.” Studies in English Language & Literature 42.4 (2016): 189-214. This paper examines the roles that dialogic features play in developing argument within a journalistic genre. Combining the use of corpus techniques with discourse analysis, contrastive rhetoric research focuses on the use of questions employed in both L1 and L2 newspaper editorials written by university students. The results showed that there are cross-sectional variations in regard to the distribution and use of questions within the rhetorical structure of editorial discourse. A further structural analysis revealed that both L1 and L2 corpus have slightly different profiles in terms of the rhetorical functions of questions. These all suggest that the L2 writers may rely on a more inductive reasoning process to attain rhetorical persuasion than L1 writers. Pedagogical L2 writing resources should be given to teach Korean L2 writers alternative strategies for both genre-specific and culture-specific rhetorical conventions that are frequently used in newspaper editorials. (Busan National University of Education)
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I. Introduction
II. Background to the study
2.1 Newspaper Editorials as an Argumentative Genre
2.2 Frameworks of Editorial Texts
2.3 Questions and Interaction
III. Methods
3.1 Corpus and Procedure
IV. Findings and Discussion
4.1 The Frequency and Distributions of Questions in L1 and L2 writing
4.2 The Use and Rhetorical Functions of Questions in L1 and L2 writing
V. Conclusions
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