01386nas a2200133 4500008004100000245010300041210006900144300001400213490000700227520091100234653003401145100002001179856005301199 2012 eng d00aA Text and its Commentaries: Toward a Reception History of 'Genre in Three Traditions' (Hyon 1996)0 aText and its Commentaries Toward a Reception History of Genre in a103–1160 v243 a
Reception histories are retrospectives; they look back at publications and ask
who has cited them, how often, when, where and why. This paper takes an
influential 1996 paper on genre analysis and examines how it has played out
intertextually over the 15 years or so since its publication. The main sources used
have been Google Scholar and the Web of Science. The quantitative results show
that it has been primarily, but not exclusively, cited in ESP publications. The
more qualitative aspect of this investigation reveals that its value for most later
commentators lies in its review-article potential to act as an interpretive frame
for subsequent work. The paper ends with a discussion of whether today we
should accept just “three traditions” for genre analysis and its pedagogical
applications or look further afield.