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Genre performances: John Swales' Genre Analysis and rhetorical-linguistic genre studies [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English for Academic Purposes, 2015
Abstract Although scholars have studied some sources of variation within genres, the variation that is each individual performance of a genre requires further investigation. In Genre Analysis, John Swales combined rhetoric and linguistics to explain genre as grounded in shared communicative purposes and discoverable through text analysis.
Amy J Devitt
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Rhetorical structure of systematic reviews published in dental journals: implications for teaching reading and writing in ESP courses

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada, 2021
Systematic reviews (SRs) are relevant for the dentistry community; however, a multidisciplinary literature review suggests that, to date, no linguistic study on the rhetorical structure of dental SRs in English has been carried out, a gap the present ...
Bexi Perdomo   +2 more
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Genres Inside Genres. A Short Theory of Embedded Genre

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2021
The concept of the embedded genre is of crucial importance if we want to understand the way genres interact, within any given text, within any given genre, and in forming larger genre patterns. By discussing a tentative distinction between three kinds of
Sune Auken
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Genre Expectations and Viewer Reaction to Our Planet: Are Audiences Motivated to Act More Sustainably?

open access: yesLanguage and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2021
As more people turn to documentaries to learn about environmental issues it becomes even more important to consider the ways in which genre and its representational patterns, such as the use of images, affect viewers.
Claire Ahn
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Exploring rhetorical moves in a digital academic genre: A cross-disciplinary study of the highlights section

open access: yesIbérica, 2021
This cross-disciplinary paper explores the ways in which writers promote their research articles in the highlights section of journals available online as a digital academic genre. A corpus of highlights from 300 research articles was randomly selected from journals in two major domains of knowledge, hard sciences and soft sciences.
Farnia, Maryam, Akbaş, Erdem
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The role of meta-genres in the construction of genre: A generic stability factor?

open access: yesCalidoscópio, 2018
This paper discusses how some meta-genres constitute a relevant factor for the generic stability of the memorandum in the administrative activities’ systems of the Federal Institute of Pernambuco (IFPE), Recife, Brazil, in the period between 1973-2014 ...
Valfrido da Silva Nunes   +1 more
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Kairós in science blogging: immediacy, self-expression and audience engagement

open access: yesDNA Di Nulla Academia, 2021
The present paper explores the rhetorical concept of «kairós» as a decisive factor of the argumentative success of scientific communications to highlight the linguistic shape it takes in science blogs.
Maria Freddi
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Autistic university students’ accounts of interactions with nonautistic and autistic individuals: a rhetorical genre studies perspective

open access: yesRevista da Anpoll, 2020
Increasing numbers of autistic students are enrolling in universities worldwide. These students are taught by mostly nonautistic instructors who try to support them in their learning of academic literacies, without always fully understanding this emerging group of neurodiverse students. Most research on the development of academic literacies, including
Jacquie Ballantine, Natasha Artemeva
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From the radio to the classroom: a rhetorical-conversational analysis of the genre “spot”

open access: yesFilologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2015
In this paper, the authors present a theoretical and methodological dialogue between conversational, argumentative and interactive studies. Moreover, they seek to demonstrate a possible application of this dialogue in the reality of the Portuguese ...
Maria Francisca Oliveira Santos   +1 more
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Tasting notes

open access: yesIbérica, 2022
Tasting notes are professional texts used in different specialised contexts with the purpose of organising the taster’s sensory perceptions into attributes. There have been multiple studies focusing on the linguistic features of tasting notes, from their
Belén López Arroyo   +1 more
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