Genre in a Changing World

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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 16 septembre 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781643170015
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING
Series Editor, Mike Palmquist
The Perspectives on Writing series addresses writing studies in a broad sense. Consistent with the wide ranging approaches characteristic of teaching and scholarship in writing across the curriculum, the series presents works that take divergent perspectives on working as a writer, teaching writing, administering writing programs, and studying writing in its various forms.
The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through free digital distribution and low-cost print editions. The publishers and the Series editor are teachers and researchers of writing, committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.
Existing Books in the Series
Charles Bazerman and David R. Russell, Writing Selves/Writing Societies (2003)
Gerald P. Delahunty and James Garvey, The English Language: from Sound to Sense (2009)
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo (Eds.), Genre in a Changing World (2009)


GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD
Edited by
Charles Bazerman
Adair Bonini
Débora Figueiredo
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© 2009 Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Genre in a changing world / edited by Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, Debora Figueiredo.
p. cm. -- (Perspectives on writing)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-60235-125-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-126-4 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-60235-127-1 (adobe ebook)
1. English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching. 2. Report writing--Study and teaching. 3. Language arts--Correlation with content subjects. 4. Interdisciplinary approach in education. I. Bazerman, Charles. II. Bonini, Adair. III. Figueiredo, Débora de Carvalho.
PE1404.G399 2010
808’.042--dc22
2009032938
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Contents
Editors’ Introduction
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
advances in genre theories
1 Worlds of Genre—Metaphors of Genre
John M. Swales
2 From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing
Paul Prior
3 To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies
Maria Antónia Coutinho
Florencia Miranda
4 Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces
Fábio José Rauen
genre and the professions
5 Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of Language in the Genre Closing Argument
Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros
6 The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet: A Critical Approach
Leonardo Mozdzenski
7 Uptake and the Biomedical Subject
Kimberly K. Emmons
8 Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers Learning Genres of Their Profession
Natasha Artemeva
9 The Dissertation as Multi-Genre: Many Readers, Many Readings
Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
genre and media
10 The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree
Adair Bonini
11 The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier: The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal
Rui Ramos
12 Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet: A New News Story Genre
Helen Caple
13 Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery
Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo
genre in teaching and learning
14 Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn
Charles Bazerman
15 Bakhtin Circle’s Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices
Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo
16 The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy
Désirée Motta-Roth
17 Teaching Critical Genre Awareness
Amy Devitt
18 Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State: Assessing the Route, Opening Paths
Maria Marta Furlanetto
19 Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks: Genre Embedding as Recontextualization
Salla Lähdesmäki
genre in writing across the curriculum
20 Exploring Notions of Genre in “Academic Literacies” and “Writing Across the Curriculum”: Approaches Across Countries and Contexts
David R. Russell, Mary Lea, Jan Parker, Brian Street, and Tiane Donahue
21 Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research
Tiane Donahue
22 Negotiating Genre: Lecturer’s Awareness in Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level
Estela Inés Moyano
23 The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for Graduate Students in Two Fields
Solange Aranha
24 Written Genres in University Studies: Evidence from an Academic Corpus of Spanish in Four Disciplines
Giovanni Parodi
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Editors’ Introduction
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
It has been a decade since the Vancouver conference on genre, which resulted in the volume The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre (appearing in 2002). Since then the world of genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction have continued to grow rapidly, gaining variety and complexity as the concept of genre has been examined through a widening variety of intellectual traditions, has been researched in the social histories of many countries, and has been creatively applied in many different educational settings internationally. Although there have been many conferences and publications on genre in the intervening years, this is the first volume since the one arising out of the Vancouver conference to represent the current range of work on genre. As you will see that range is now truly remarkable and puts us on the verge of another dynamic period of theoretical reformulation, research, and application.
The twenty-four papers in this volume were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007. Two special issues of journals have also been drawn from this conference: issue 3.1 of Linguistics and Human Sciences and a forthcoming issue of L1: Educational Studies in Language and Literature . At this conference two series of conferences were brought together. The first SIGET conference was in 2003 at Londrina, Paraná as a predominantly Brazilian event, meeting again in 2004 in Vitória, Paraná and in 2005 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. In 2007 the organizing committee of SIGET in order to expand the international scope of the conference reached out to include the participants in a series of informally organized genre conferences in North America and Europe convening in Ottawa in 1992, in Vancouver in 1998, and in Oslo in 2001. Participants in SIGET IV came from all over the globe, and authors in this volume represent Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Both the wide range of participation and Brazil as the venue of this remarkable conjunction were no accident. All regions of the world are increasingly aware that they are caught up in a global information economy. People of all nations need to be able to communicate in specialized professional realms to prosper and reap the benefits of new levels of knowledge-based professional and organizational practice. The pervasiveness, immediacy and interactivity of the new communicative media, including the World Wide Web, have further heightened awareness of the need to read and write in many rapidly evolving forms. The need to prepare the citizens to communicate in specialized ways (whether in a first language or a second international language) typically becomes evident in higher education, even at the post-graduate level. Genre is a useful concept to begin to understand the specialized comm