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The summaries of ‘Deutsche Kastanien’ by students from
France and Germany confirm my hypothesis that the genre
summary (French résumé, GermanZusammenfassung) is a
culturallymarked genre. Representative samples of each
cultural group are reproduced below. They show that the
summaries by the American and French learners of German (cf.
summary 7) remain close to the human interest story and its
factual aspects, whereas the summaries by the German native
speakers (summaries 8, 9 and 10) focus on the larger problem,
of which Ender’s story is only an illustration.
KRAMSCH, 1993, p. 10.
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