TY - JOUR T1 - Analysis of an Academic Genre JF - Discourse Studies Y1 - 2002 A1 - Maingueneau, Dominique KW - authorship KW - discourse KW - discourse community KW - genre KW - instituted genre KW - interpretation AB - This article begins with some reflections on the notion of genre asused in discourse analysis and aims to make a distinction between two types of genre – conversational genres and instituted genres. Varying levels can be distinguished in the range of instituted genres: from genres deprived of any authorship to genres in which a single author partly defines the frame of the communicative event. However, this article deals mainly with a genre-based analysis of an instituted genre, a report on the thesis defence meeting (soutenance de thèse), as practised in French academic institutions. This genre is interesting for discourse analysts, not only because it is closely linked to scientific research communities, but also because it implies an original configuration of authorship and triggers indirect interpretation strategies. VL - 4 SP - 319–342 N1 - + pdf ER -