Discursive Cultures and Genres in Japanese Textbooks of English and French as Foreign Languages
Over the past few decades, contrastive discourse analysis (CODA) has enabled researchers to describe the characteristics of discourse communities across countries. However, its potential goes beyond national and linguistic frontiers. In this paper, I examine a corpus of English and French textbooks...
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Argumentation et analyse du discours
2026
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| Zusammenfassung: | Over the past few decades, contrastive discourse analysis (CODA) has enabled researchers to describe the characteristics of discourse communities across countries. However, its potential goes beyond national and linguistic frontiers. In this paper, I examine a corpus of English and French textbooks created in the same geographical area, i.e., Japan, for the same target audience. Below superficial homogeneity, the corpus conceals numerous differences. To tackle them, I adopt an approach centred on the “etic”/“emic” distinction that CODA draws from. The aim is twofold: to discover the discursive cultures underlying the textbooks, on the one hand, and to gather an internal (emic) description of the genre, on the other. Through an analysis of linguistic markers, text types, and intertextuality/interdiscourse, this study highlights the emergence of two discursive communities (Japanese and French), irrespective of the language in which they express themselves. |
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