Second Language Writers' Text: Linguistic and Rhetorical Features

by Eli Hinkel

Book Overview

This comprehensive and detailed analysis of second language writers' text identifies explicitly and quantifiably where their text differs from that of native speakers of English. The book is based on the results of a large-scale study of university-level native-speaker and non-native-speaker essays written in response to six prompts. Specifically, the research investigates the frequencies of uses of 68 linguistic (syntactic and lexical) and rhetorical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805840338
• ISBN13: 9780805840339
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.3" x 9.0"