Genre performances: John Swales' Genre Analysis and rhetorical-linguistic genre studies

Authors, Genre, and Linguistic Convention

Authorship, Language, and Individual Choice The basic premise underlying authorship attribution studies is that while the form of expression in language is in some respects strictly bound by linguistic rule systems and in others somewhat constrained by topic and genre, it is in some other respects freely available for configuration or preferential choice by author or speaker. This individual va...

1 Worlds of Genre — Metaphors of Genre

Genre Analysis and Genre-mixing Across Various Realizations of Academic Book Introductions in Applied Linguistics

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...

rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach

The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

Genre Taxonomy

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...