Rhetoric patterns in conflict: The sociocultural relativity of discourse-organizing processes (original) (raw)

Journal of Pragmatics, 1983

Abstract

Abstract The primarily non-symbolic, organizational dimensions of linguistic interaction and texts are discussed under the concept of rhetoric patterns as a hitherto neglected component of verbal behaviour in order to focus on their dynamics and relativity which can lead to problems in interlinguistic and cross-cultural communication. The paper hopes to serve the multidisciplinary effort to explain communication in general, providing an analytical overview and tentative first typology of discourse processes. It also highlights the ‘rhetoric’/discourse competence required to communicate appropriately in L2 contexts.

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