Article published In: Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Vol. 29:2 (2019) ► pp.168–187
Comparative rhetoric and emic approaches to Chinese persuasive strategies in hotel discourse
Published online: 6 August 2019
https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00029.liu
https://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00029.liu
Abstract
Many studies concerning culture and rhetoric have been restricted to the binary distinction of cultures or to etic
perspectives by using western theories as framework to point out the weakness of Chinese rhetoric. Taking comparative rhetoric and
emic approaches, this paper focuses on logical appeal and ethical appeal to discuss the cultural values reflected in the hotel
discourses. In this study content analysis was used to encode the English and Chinese hotel introductions; quantitative method was
used for data comparison and an interview for investigating the persuasiveness of the Chinese rhetorical strategies. The relation
between cultural values and persuasive strategies was explored. It is concluded that cultural specificity at deep level is still
an indispensable factor determining rhetorical strategies despite the globalization.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Culture and cultural value
- Persuasive rhetorical strategies
- Hotel discourses
- Research methodology
- Research questions
- Data source and participants
- Data collection
- Content analysis
- Addressing terms
- Interview
- Research results and discussion
- Rhetorical strategies found by content analysis
- Cultural values found by content analysis
- Addressing strategies and cultural values
- Interview result
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
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