Contrastive Discourse in Chinese and English:A Critical Appraisal

CONTENTSChapter One：Contrastive discourse：The problem of setting func-tionally contrastive frames
Section 1：Information Sequence and Rhetoric
Chapter Two：Topic-comment or modifier-modified？Information structure in modern standard Chinese
Chapter Three：Information sequence and rhetoric in a genre of ex-tended spoken discourse
Chapter Four：Information sequence and rhetoric in letters of request
Chapter Five：Information sequence and rhetoric in Chinese argu-ment
Section 2：Traditional and Contemporary Writing
Chapter Six：Traditional Chinese text structures and their influence on the writing in Chinese and English of contemporary mainland Chinese students
Chapter Seven：Eight legs and one elbow：Stance and structure in Taiwan Chinese English compositions
Chapter Eight：Writing expository essays in Chinese．Chinese or western influences？
Chapter Nine：Are they really so different？A look at the Chinese university entrance exams
Section 3：Comparative News Discourse
Chapter Ten：Structural differences in functionally equivalent texts：Perspective，frame and focus in Chinese and English news stories
Chapter Eleven：A contrastive analysis of Chinese and English ver-sion of a news story
Chapter Twelve：Point of view and citation：Fourteen Chinese and English versions of the‘same'news story
Chapter Thirteen：Generic variability in news stories in Chinese and English：A contrastive discourse study of five days'news-papers
Conclusion
Chapter Fourteen：Contrastive rhetoric，contrastive poetics，or per-haps something else？
References
Appendices