Sobre las fronteras retóricas del español escrito

Cassany, Daniel

Sobre las fronteras retóricas del español escrito

Citation

Cassany D. Sobre las fronteras retóricas del español escrito. Cuadernos Comillas. 2011; 1: 37–51.

Abstract

This article shows the presence of cultural and rhetoric elements of an author’s native language (L1) in his writings in a second language (L2). Several research on Contrastive Rhetoric, New Literacy Studies and Translation are summed up and discussed; they analyse those strategies that authors and translators use in order to hide or show aspects of their L1 in their writings in L2. Two cases of academic writing are analysed too (a Latin who writes in English and a Quechuan that writes in Spanish), they contribute with examples of excessive editing and suppression of relevant cultural traits. These facts and theories allow reflecting on the use of rhetoric and culture in texts of multilingual people from the point of view of both, the identity construction and the writing assessment in the classroom.