Author : Brian Paltridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027250582
Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings by Brian Paltridge Pdf
This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is typical of the particular genre, the qualities or properties that are inherited from other instances of the communicative event, and the ways in which a text is influenced by other texts of a similar kind. The texts which form the basis of this discussion are drawn from experimental research reporting in English. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Approaches to genre 3. Genre and frames 4. A sample analysis: Writing up research 5. Summary and conclusions.