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- Title
The arguing genre and the explaining genre: A comparison in terms of discourse relational analyses of texts written in English and texts written in Māori.
- Authors
Crombie, Winifred; Bruce, Ian; Houia-Roberts, Ngaere
- Abstract
There is a commonly held belief that those who are immersed in indigenous cultures have a tendency, when constructing academic texts, to avoid sequential, deductive argumentation. We report here on a comparison of two groups of texts exhibiting two different genres -- explaining and arguing. One group of texts was written in Māori by indigenous authors, the other group was written in English by non-indigenous authors. Our findings are that although the percentage use of logico-deductive relationships is roughly equivalent for both groups of texts/ writers in the case of the explaining genre, the Māori texts/ writers use almost twice the percentage of logico-deductive relationships as do the English texts/ writers.
- Subjects
DEBATE; EXPLANATION (Linguistics); MAORI (New Zealand people); INDIGENOUS peoples; AUTHORS
- Publication
He Puna Korero: Journal of Maori & Pacific Development, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 1, p27
- ISSN
1175-3005
- Publication type
Article