Abstract
This study tests the validity of contrastive rhetoric by comparing Korean and German college students` rhetorical styles. 23 Korean and 22 German college students` essays about the influence of American or British culture on their life were examined for their study. The results show the Korean students use different rhetorical styles than what is by Kaplan and other contrastive rhetoric proponents. However, digression emerges as the distinctive feature of German rhetoric in some of the German students` essays as previous studies claim. Unlike the Korean students` essays in which any particular rhetorical style does not emerge, those by the German students show a pattern of repetitive coordination and a simpler hierarchical structure resulting from limited relation types between idea units. (Hankyong National University)
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