A conversation
on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson and Paul Kei Matsuda talk
about issues, conceptualizations, and the future of contrastive rhetoric
This conversation took
place on the evening of September 25, 2004, in an old house on an island
in Maine. Because contrastive rhetoric (CR) may be at a crucial point
in its history – and one which invites fundamental rethinking – we
decided to match this exploratory moment with an equally exploratory
genre: the academic conversation. Our intent was not to come to univocal
agreement or to state a general theory; instead, we sought to develop
our thoughts and feelings about CR through friendly but serious dialogue.
It should be clear that both of us have complex feelings about CR.
We thought that this was an opportune place from which to begin to
examine its future possibilities and implications.
Matsuda, P. K., & Atkinson,
D. (2008). A conversation on contrastive rhetoric: Dwight Atkinson
and Paul Kei Matsuda talk about issues, conceptualizations, and the
future of contrastive rhetoric. In U. Connor, E. Nagelhout, &
W. Rozycki (Eds.), Contrastive rhetoric:
Reaching to intercultural rhetoric (pp. 277-298). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
