Genre in a Changing World

  • genre studies, international, multi-voiced, media, Linguistics, WAC

Edited by Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
Designed and copy edited by David Doran

CoverGenre 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, North and South America, were selected from more than 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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Front Matter

Introduction, Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.1.1

Advances in Genre Theories

Worlds of Genre - Metaphors of Genre, John M. Swales
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.01

From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems: Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing, Paul Prior
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.02

To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies, Maria Antónia Coutinho and Florencia Miranda
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.03

Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces, Fábio José Rauen
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.04

Genre and the Professions

Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of Language in the Genre Closing Argument, Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.05

The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet: A Critical Approach, Leonardo Mozdzenski
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.06

Uptake and the Biomedical Subject, Kimberly K. Emmons
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.07

Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers Learning Genres of Their Profession, Natasha Artemeva
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.08

The Dissertation as Multi-Genre: Many Readers, Many Readings, Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.09

Genre and Media

The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree, Adair Bonini
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.10

The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier: The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal, Rui Ramos
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.11

Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet: A New News Story Genre, Helen Caple
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.12

Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery, Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.13

Genre in Teaching and Learning

Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn, Charles Bazerman
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.14

Bakhtin Circle's Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices, Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.15

The Role of Context in Academic Text Production and Writing Pedagogy, Désirée Motta-Roth
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.16

Teaching Critical Genre Awareness, Amy Devitt
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.17

Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State: Assessing the Route, Opening Paths, Maria Marta Furlanetto
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.18

Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks: Genre Embedding as Recontextualization, Salla Lähdesmäki
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.19

Genre in Writing Across the Curriculum

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
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.20

Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research, Tiane Donahue
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.21

Negotiating Genre: Lecturer's Awareness in Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level, Estela Inés Moyano
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.22

The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for Graduate Students in Two Fields, Solange Aranha
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.23

Written Genres in University Studies: Evidence from an Academic Corpus of Spanish in Four Disciplines, Giovanni Parodi
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324.2.24

Author Affiliations

Publication Information: Bazerman, Charles, Adair Bonini, & Débora Figueiredo (Eds.). (2009). Genre in a Changing World. The WAC Clearinghouse; Parlor Press. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324

Publication Date: August 7, 2009

ISBN: 978-0-97270-232-4 (pdf) | 978-1-64215-111-4 (epub) | 978-1-60235-125-7 (pbk.)
DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2009.2324

Contact Information:
Charles Bazerman's Home Page: http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman/
Charles Bazerman's Email: bazerman@education.ucsb.edu

V SIGET

Special Issues from the SIGET V Conference

The Clearinghouse offers access to special issues of three journals—Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada, Linguagem em (Dis)Curso, and Revista Signos—that published articles emerging from the 2009 International Symposium on Text Genre Studies - SIGET V. View the Special Issues ...

Reviews

Review by Azizeh Chalak, Islamic Azad University, in the International Journal of Language Studies, July, 2012.

Perspectives on Writing

Series Editor: Mike Palmquist, Colorado State University

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