32.2116, Diss: Applied Linguistics: Md Mijanur Rahman: ''From Cultural to Colonial: Differential Writing Practices and a Negotiation of Genre’s Value-Laden Nature in First-Year-Composition Classes''

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:02:08
From: Md Mijanur Rahman [mrahma25 at calstatela.edu]
Subject: From Cultural to Colonial: Differential Writing Practices and a Negotiation of Genre’s Value-Laden Nature in First-Year-Composition Classes

 
Institution: Illinois State University 
Program: English Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2020 

Author: Md Mijanur Rahman

Dissertation Title: From Cultural to Colonial: Differential Writing Practices
and a Negotiation of Genre’s Value-Laden Nature in
First-Year-Composition Classes 

Dissertation URL:  https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/1264/

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Lisya Seloni
Susan Burt
Angela Haas

Dissertation Abstract:

Conceptualized as an educational action research project in college settings,
this dissertation investigates the culturally situated and value-laden nature
of business letters. Drawing on the contrastive rhetoric traditions of second
language writing, the genre theories in three traditions of writing pedagogy,
the decolonial theories in cultural studies, and speech act and politeness
theories in intercultural pragmatics, the dissertation conducts a
genre-specific contrastive rhetoric study of 21 model business letters of
requests in the Bangladeshi and the U.S. school settings. It examines the
lexico-grammatical choices made and the politeness strategies used in the
letters’ references or subject lines, salutations, bodies (especially their
beginnings and ends), and complimentary closes in an effort to determine what
divergent values the letters represent. The study also investigates whether
those values are cultural and/or colonial by looking at the letters’ social,
cultural, and political contexts, mainly in Bangladesh, through a historical
sociolinguistic study based on letter data. Finally, the dissertation builds
on the pedagogical takeaways from the letter analysis by designing and
implementing a genre-ethnography project with a letter writing component to
show how the writing instructors in a U.S. first-year-composition program can
help develop students’ critical genre awareness and prepare them to negotiate
the value-laden nature of writing genres in a variety of real-life contexts.




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