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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.
Devitt, Amy J.
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The sense of a beginning : Bakhtinian dialogic criticism on 'the gospel' in Mark. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Contemporary literary approaches have caused paradigm shifts in Biblical Studies in the last two decades as it appears in a great deal of Markan studies using narrative, reader-response, deconstructive, feminist, and new historicist approaches.
Santoja, Jakub
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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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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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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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A Tardy Uptake

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2020
Following Carolyn Miller’s (1984) definition of genre as social action, subsequent work in the field of rhetorical genre theory has focused on two aspects of her account.
Anne Freadman
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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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Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2020
Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the developing RGS ...
Carolyn R. Miller
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Always Already in Flux: A Response to Anne Freadman

open access: yesDiscourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2020
Carolyn Miller’s rich and theoretically complex 1984 essay “Genre as Social Action” has been widely influential among scholars who have been variously identified as part of Rhetorical Genre Studies (Freedman, 1999), North American Genre Studies (Freedman
Charles Bazerman
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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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