Genre in the New Rhetoric

ISBN-13: 9780748402571 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 252 str.

Aviva Freedman

Opis

In this work, theorists reflect on the growing interest in genre studies in a number of inter-related disciplines such as literary theory, sociology and cultural studies, and examine the implications this reconception of genre has on both research and teaching.

Spis treści

Introduction: Locating Genre Studies: Antecedents and Prospects. Genre Theory: Genre as a Social Action; Anyone for Tennis?; Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre; Systems of Genres and the Enactment of Social Intentions. Research into Public and Professional Genres: The Lab vs. the Clinic: Sites of Competing Genres; On Definition and Rhetorical Genre; A Genre Map of R & D Knowledge Production for the US Department of Defense; Observing Genres in Action: Toward a Research Methodology; Genre and the Pragmatic Concept of Background Knowledge. Applications in Education: An Arousing and Fulfillment of Desires: The Rhetoric of Genre in the Process Era...and Beyond; Do as I Say: The Relationship between Teaching and Learning New Genres; Traffic in Genres, In Classrooms and Out.

O autorze

Aviva Freedman, Peter Medway