 | John J. Gumperz - 1982 - 290 頁
...the paragraph may be said to be 'turning and turning in a widening gyre'. The circles or gyres turn around the subject and show it from a variety of tangential...views, but the subject is never looked at directly . . . Again, such a development in a modern English paragraph would strike the English reader as awkward... | |
 | Miriam R. Eisenstein - 1989 - 358 頁
...be called an approach of indirection" (p. 46). According to Kaplan, Korean writers show the subject, "from a variety of tangential views, but the subject...they are not, rather than in terms of what they are" (p. 46; see also Eggington. 1987). In contrast, American writers often value directness. In general,... | |
 | Mark Newell Brock, Larry Walters - 1992 - 164 頁
...article on contrastive rhetoric maintains that eastern writing is marked with indirection in which 'things are developed in terms of what they are not, rather than what they are'(as cited in McKay, 1984:49). More recently, Hinds (1987) has distinguished two types... | |
 | Sandra Lee McKay, Nancy H. Hornberger - 1996 - 498 頁
...article on contrastive rhetoric, maintains that Eastern writing is marked with indirection in which "things are developed in terms of what they are not, rather than what they are" (as cited in McKay, 1984, p. 49). More recently, Hinds (1987) has distinguished two... | |
 | Xiangling Li - 1999 - 228 頁
...a ever decreasing circle. The circles tum around the subject and show it from a variety of angles, but the subject is never looked at directly. Things...they are not, rather than in terms of what they are. To quote Kaplan 1 1 9661: The concluding paragraph-sentence presents, in the guise of a summary logically... | |
 | Kazuko Nakajima - 2002 - 227 頁
...is marked by what may be called an approach by indirection, (pp. 4-5) Kaplan later continues: . . . the subject is never looked at directly. Things are...they are not, rather than in terms of what they are Such a development in a modern English paragraph would strike the English reader as awkward and unnecessarily... | |
 | David F. Beer - 2003 - 538 頁
...indirect approach to a theme that he depicted with a spiral diagram: that is, "the circles or gyres turn around the subject and show it from a variety of tangential...views, but the subject Is never looked at directly" (p. 10). Although Kaplan admitted that the Asian writing diagram did not encompass the writing of Japanese... | |
 | Edward M. Curtis, John J. Brugaletta - 244 頁
...Kaplan calls such an organization "an approach by indirection," in which the individual units "turn around the subject and show it from a variety of tangential views, but the subject is never looked at directly."1One of the most obvious techniques that Qohelet used was tensions, or what Loader calls... | |
 | Bernard Flynn - 2005 - 328 頁
...of these "rationalist conceptions of history" as being ones that simply characterize these societies in terms of what they are not, rather than in terms of what they actually are. From this rationalist perspective, no analysis is made of how these societies articulate... | |
 | Peter Smagorinsky - 2006 - 330 頁
...contrast, he writes, Asian rhetoric is constructed as a spiral, circling the main idea, "showing it in a variety of tangential views, but the subject is never looked at directly" (p. 302). The upshot of his argument is that rhetoric should be seen as viable and recognizable parts... | |
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In this kind of writing, the development of the paragraph may be said to be "turning and turning in a widening gyre." The circles or gyres turn around the subject and show it from a variety of tangential views, but the subject is never looked at directly.... 