Genre Across Borders (GXB) | an international, interdisciplinary network of researchers, theories, and resources

About GXB

Genre is a idea that crosses disciplinary, national, methodological, conceptual, and pedagogical borders. The purpose of Genre across Borders (GXB) is to advance genre theory and research by helping scholars and students cross these borders. The site combines two primary functions:

As a reference guide to scholarship in the many fields of genre study
As a networking portal for scholars and teachers

GXB aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the multiple strands of genre scholarship and their relationships, in order to catalyze intellectual exchange and pedagogical innovation and to help us understand the processes and motivations of genre development, evolution, and circulation.

GXB now features translations of research introductions on our Research page. Contact us to contribute a translation. You may also select an interface display language on your Profile page.

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Sample Bibliography

[974] Swales, J. M. (2004). Research genres: explorations and applications. The Cambridge applied linguistics series. xii, 314 p..

[862] Marthaler, B. L. (1995). The Catechism Yesterday and Today: The Evolution of a Genre.

Glossary Sample

Genre facet

A way of defining the main content of a genre that involves designating the classes of content associated with it (Stamatatos, Fakotakis, & Kokkinakis, 2002).

User Spotlight

Brian Paltridge

Name: Brian Paltridge

Institution: University of Sydney

Department/Program Affiliation: Education

Education: PhD

Status: Professor of TESOL

Website: http://sydney.edu.au/education_social_work/about/staff/profiles/brian.paltridge.php

Biography: Brian Paltridge is Professor of TESOL at the University of Sydney. His publications include the Handbook of English for Specific Purposes (edited with Sue Starfield, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). The second edition of his book Discourse Analysis was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. He is author, with Sue Starfield and Christine Tardy of Ethnographic Perspectives on Academic Writing, Oxford University Press, 2015 and, also with Sue Starfield, Getting Published in Academic Journals, University of Michigan Press, 2016. He is an editor emeritus of English for specific purposes and co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.