El Género Periodístico en el Español de los Estados Unidos

Abstract

The study of cross-cultural rhetorical patterns in written texts has been an area of growing interest during the last three decades. Contrasive Rhetoric, the hypothesis that different cultures can have different ways of organizing ideas which manifest themselves in different thetorical systems, has become an influential research area, providing useful insights to understanding the forms, contents, and contexts that shape different types of texts across a variety of cultures. The present study examines a number of rhetorical and stylistic features in the editorials of La Opinion, the Spanish language newspaper with the largest circulation size in the United States...