Genre in a Changing World

Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini

• Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781602351257
• eBook ISBN:
  9781602351271
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Creative Writing
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Editors’ Introduction
• Part 1: Advances in Genre Theories
• 1 Worlds of Genre—Metaphors of Genre
• 2 From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing
• 3 To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies
• 4 Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces
• Part 2: Genre and the Professions
• 5 Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of Language in the Genre Closing Argument
• Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros
• 6 The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet: A Critical Approach
• 7 Uptake and the Biomedical Subject
• 8 Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers Learning Genres of Their Profession
• 9 The Dissertation as Multi-Genre: Many Readers, Many Readings
• Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
• Part 3: Genre and Media
• 10 The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree
• 11 The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier: The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal
• 12 Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet: A New News Story Genre
• 13 Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
• Part 4: Genre in Teaching and Learning
• 14 Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn
• 15 Bakhtin Circle’s Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices
• 16 The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy
• 17 Teaching Critical Genre Awareness
• 18 Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State: Assessing the Route, Opening Paths
• 19 Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks: Genre Embedding as Recontextualization
• Part 5: Genre in Writing Across the Curriculum
• 20 Exploring Notions of Genre in “Academic Literacies” and “Writing Across the Curriculum”: Approaches Across Countries and Co texts
• 21 Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research
• 22 Negotiating Genre: Lecturer’s Awareness in Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level
• 23 The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for Graduate Students in Two Fields
• 24 Written Genres in University Studies: Evidence from an Academic Corpus of Spanish in Four Disciplines
• Author and Editor Institutional Affiliations
• Back cover