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