... a very distinct example concerning the difference between Asian and Western - 48 - writing or speaking styles broadcast on TV and radio, like radio and television show a considerable repetition ... Montano-Harmon (1991) has described discourse features (enumeration, addition, summation, result, explication, illustration, contrast, and transitional words and phrases) in fifty expository essays ... meaning may be well be predicated on quite different cultural assumptions. According to Martin (1993), in the fields of social psychology and studies of communication, cultural competence is seen...