Author : Brian Paltridge
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250588
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Book Synopsis Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings by : Brian Paltridge
Download or read book Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings written by Brian Paltridge and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is typical of the particular genre, the qualities or properties that are inherited from other instances of the communicative event, and the ways in which a text is influenced by other texts of a similar kind. The texts which form the basis of this discussion are drawn from experimental research reporting in English. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Approaches to genre 3. Genre and frames 4. A sample analysis: Writing up research 5. Summary and conclusions.