| Titolo | Towards a Constructivist Theory of Media Genre |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1987 |
| Authors | Schmidt, S. J. |
| Journal | Poetics |
| Volume | 16 |
| Pagination | 371–395 |
| Parole chiave | function, genre, media |
| Astratto | Up to now the discussion of genres has been oriented rather exclusively towards text-types in the literary-system, and its scope has mostly been typological. In contrast to these approaches this paper aims at a systematic explication of the notion of genre in a science of the media on a constructivist epistemological basis conceiving of genres in terms of cognitive concepts.A constructivist theory of genre concentrates on functions, it strives for homogeneous argumentation, and it tries to establish a general theory of media genres which is able to explain the function of genres in the media in general. |
