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Genre Analysis

open access: yes, 2015
Genre analysis is an area of discourse analysis which studies written and spoken discourse, mainly in non literary communication and especially in domain-specific communication (academic, corporate, legal), approaching it in terms of genres, that is, ‘types’ or ‘kinds’ of discourse.
G.E. Garzone
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A genre analysis of scientific abstracts

Journal of Documentation, 2006
PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to analyse the structure of a small number of abstracts that have appeared in the CABI database over a number of years, during which time the authorship of the abstracts changed from CABI editorial staff to journal article authors themselves.
Cate Cross, Charles Oppenheim
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Textual Genre Analysis and Identification

2005
This chapter reports on a research program that investigates language and text from a rhetorical point of view. By rhetorical, we mean an approach that features the relationship between the speaker and the audience or between the writer and the reader. Fundamental to a rhetorical approach to language is an interest in linguistic and textual agency, how
David Kaufer   +3 more
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Genre analysis

2012
This paper opens with a brief account of the history of the English scientific research article (RA) over the past 350 years. Apart from a historical overview of the genre of RA, a synchronic analysis is also carried out on one of the main sections of the RA introduction.
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Genre analysis of bookmarked webpages

Online Information Review, 2010
PurposeA total of 17 user‐compiled collections of webpages, comprising 833 bookmarked links in terms of genre, are studied. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether users tend to bookmark certain web genres more than others. Genre theory helps to make sense of the different pages included in these collections, and to classify them, according to
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Genre Analysis and the Translator

Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 1989
Abstract In this paper I shall attempt three tasks. First, to give a brief account of the recent history of genre studies, leading to a definition of the notion. Secondly, to contextualise the notion of genre, that is, I shall see what it has in common with, or adds to, other related notions current in Discourse Analysis. Finally, I
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Approaches to Genre Analysis

2013
The New Rhetoric (NR) approach to genre analysis was initiated by Miller (1984). Genre, according to Miller (1984, p. 163), refers to ‘a conventional category of discourse based in large-scale typification of rhetorical action; as action, it acquires meaning from situation and from the social context in which that situation arose’.
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Bridging the gap: a genre analysis of Weblogs

37th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004. Proceedings of the, 2004
Weblogs (blogs) - frequently modified Web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence - are the latest genre of Internet communication to attain widespread popularity, yet their characteristics have not been systematically described.
Susan C. Herring   +3 more
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Memes as genre: A structurational analysis of the memescape

New Media & Society, 2014
A tenable genre development of Internet memes is introduced in three categories to describe memetic transformation: spreadable media, emergent meme, and meme. We argue that memes are remixed, iterated messages which are rapidly spread by members of participatory digital culture for the purpose of continuing a conversation.
Bradley E. Wiggins, G. Bret Bowers
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Analysis of an academic genre

Discourse Studies, 2002
This article begins with some reflections on the notion of genre as used 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 ...
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