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  Power Distance and Persuasion: A Study of Cultural Influences on Rhetorical Variation in EFL Essays

  Andrew Schenck

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  10.36923/jicc.v26i3.1506

  Abstract: The prevalence of power distance in Confucian heritage contexts has been well documented, yet the impact of this cultural value on rhetoric has not been extensively explored. To address the gap in our current understanding of cultural influences on rhetoric, language to assert authority or make a proposition (modals and epistemic stances) and pronouns to express an author’s relationship with their reader (pronoun deixis) were tallied and... [...] Read more

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