This paper investigates the structure of English editorials from two elite newspapers, Dawn
of Pakistan and New Straits Times of Malaysia in an attempt to uncover the argumentative …

As a kind of discourse genre, newspaper editorials are of special importance in EFL studies
and contrastive rhetoric. Editorials especially editorials of criticism are written to deliberately …

Drawing on the theory of inter-cultural rhetoric analysis and considering the important role of
newspaper editorials in shaping public opinions, this article examines the schematic …

■ It is true that analyses of English language texts dominate the literature. It is equally true
that a flourishing field of Contrastive Rhetoric (CR) research has begun to address the way …

This study explores the use and functions of engagement strategies in English and Arabic
newspaper editorials. To this end, the study analyses 80 editorials collected from two …

The importance of linguistic variation has been discussed in a variety of theoretical,
methodological and practical studies. Pakistani English (PE) is an emerging independent …

Newspaper editorials have been found to follow the same structure across cultures but tend
to vary in how they realize their rhetorical strategies. Contextual factors are said to influence …

Newspaper commentaries constitute a part of media discourse, which is a significant area of
inquiry in intercultural rhetoric analysis. Through conducting a contrastive textual analysis of …

Contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which
writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the …

The primary purpose of this study was to provide a descriptive comparison of newspaper
editorials in Thai written by native speakers of Thai (TT), in English written by both native …