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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source

Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: Student Perspectives on Learning Genre

Teaching & Learning Inquiry: The ISSOTL Journal, 2014
Writing in the Disciplines curricula can both challenge and reinforce assumptions that writing is a general skill that students will already have learned prior to doing the specialized writing in their chosen field of study.
Mary Goldschmidt
doaj   +1 more source

ROBERT WALSER'S ‘BLEISTIFTWEG’: POETICS OF ATTENTION AS CRAFT

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Robert Walser's entry into what he called his ‘Bleistiftgebiet’ in the early 1920s, when in response to a profound crisis as a writer he began to produce manuscripts in minuscule size, the so‐called ‘Mikrogramme’ (microscripts). Intertwining the analysis of the short prose form with Walser's reflections on the short‐lived
Anne Fuchs
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Rhetorical moves and metadiscourse in English–Vietnamese literature reviews: Variations in niche construction and authorial positioning [PDF]

Training, Language and Culture
This study examines how literature reviews in English and Vietnamese linguistics research articles construct research positioning through rhetorical move structure and interactional metadiscourse.
Nguyen Thi Thuy Hanh
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Enchanting the Otherwise: Magical Realism and the Gendered Ontologies of Organizational Becoming

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper enacts a feminist‐posthumanist reimagining of gender as ontological disturbance, using magical realism not as metaphor but as epistemological method. Rejecting representational logics and the managerial rationalities of organizational realism, we advance gender not as identity or role but as spectral interference—a transversal ...
Max Ganzin, Diana Ivanycheva
wiley   +1 more source

A syntactic perspective on rhetorical purpose

Ibérica, 2014
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the functioning of if-conditionals in medical editorials (MEDs). As previous genre-based studies of medical discourse genres have shown, MEDs need to address at least three different types of readers and are ...
Sh. Carter-Thomas, Elizabeth Rowley-Jolivet   +1 more
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“I had something to say, and I’m saying it now”: Rhetorical and linguistic construction of the media genre of the personal account

Ibérica
The personal account is an endemic genre of women’s magazines. In this first-person story, a woman shares her experience on a problem of potential interest for the magazine’s audience and offers a solution to the problem.
Halyna Kryzhanivska, Tatyana Yakhontova, Yulia Godis, Lyubomyr Borakovskyy   +3 more
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
wiley   +1 more source

Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students' Antecedent Genre Knowledge

Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, 2012
This article explores the role of students' prior, or antecedent, genre knowledge in relation to their developing disciplinary genre competence by drawing on an illustrative example of an engineering genre-competence assessment.
Natasha Artemeva, Janna Fox
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Awake remembrance of these valiant dead : Henry V and the politics of the English history play [PDF]

, 2002
'A PROPAGANDA-PLAY on National Unity: heavily orchestrated for the brass' was how A. P. Rossiter summed up Henry V in 1954. (1) The assumption that this play is complicit with the promonarchical, nationalist rhetoric of the Chorus, and with the ...
Thorne, A.
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