TY - CHAP T1 - Discourse Genres T2 - Verbal Communication Y1 - 2016 A1 - Miller, Carolyn R. A1 - Kelly, Ashley R. ED - A. Rocci ED - L. de Saussure KW - exigence KW - formalism KW - genre awareness KW - genre system KW - macrostructure KW - move analysis KW - rhetoric KW - social action KW - Text type KW - uptake KW - utterance AB -

Genre marks large-scale repeated patterns of meaning in human symbolic production and interaction. Approaches to genre can be divided into the formalistthematic, attending to categories and discriminations based on linguistic or textual elements and drawing from cognitive theories; and the pragmatic, attending primarily to use-patterns drawing from social theories of function, action, and communal interaction. This overview draws from disciplines explicitly concerned with natural language, including literature, rhetoric, and several areas of linguistics. A distinction between rational and empirical approaches to genre affects both how genre is conceived and what methods are used for analysis. The rational approach grounds genre in a principle or theory determined by the theorist, yielding a relatively small, closed set of genres; the empirical grounds genre in the experience of those for whom genres are significant, yielding an historically changing, open set of genres. Genre analysis is applied in many discourse disciplines and for a variety of purposes, both descriptive and prescriptive.

JA - Verbal Communication T3 - Handbooks of Communication Science PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin SP - 269–286 SN - 9783110255478 UR - http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110255478/9783110255478-015/9783110255478-015.xml ER -