Genre Relations

by Martin, J. R.; Rose, David

• ISBN13: 9781845530488
• ISBN10: 1845530489
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-30
• Publisher: Equinox

Summary

This book provides an introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics. Chapter 1 introduces our general orientation to genre from the perspective of system and structure, and places genre within our general model of language and social context. Chapters 2-5 deal with five major families of genres (stories, histories, reports, explanations and procedures), introducing a range of descriptive tools and theoretical developments along the way. Finally in Chapter 6 we deal with a range of issues arising for genre analysis in a model of this kind. The book has been written for a readership of functional linguists, discourse analysts and educational linguists, including their post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Getting going with genre	p. 1
Back to school	p. 1
Where did we turn?	p. 8
Modelling context	p. 9
Systemic functional linguistics	p. 21
Tools for analysis: discourse semantics	p. 30
Grammatical metaphor	p. 38
A note on multimodality	p. 44
This book	p. 47
Stories	p. 49
Variation in stories	p. 49
Recount: recording personal experience	p. 53
Anecdotes - reacting to events	p. 56
Exemplum - interpreting incidents	p. 62
Observations - commenting on events	p. 65
Narratives - resolving complications	p. 67
News stories - new kinds of stories	p. 74
A system of story genres	p. 81
Story phases - another perspective	p. 82
Response genres - evaluating stories	p. 93
Histories	p. 99
From stories to histories	p. 99
Biographical recounts - telling life histories	p. 100
Historical recounts - recording public histories	p. 105
Historical accounts and explanations - explaining the past	p. 114
Expositions, discussions and challenges - debating the past	p. 118
Packaging value - what history means	p. 124
Typology - classifying difference	p. 130
Topology - proximating likeness	p. 131
Reports and explanations	p. 141
Classifying and explaining	p. 141
Reports: classifying and describing things	p. 142
Explanations: how processes happen	p. 150
Genres in science	p. 166
Multimodal reports and explanations	p. 167
Procedures and procedural recounts	p. 181
Procedures: directing specialised activities	p. 182
Procedural recounts	p. 198
Protocol	p. 213
Procedural systems	p. 217
Macrogenres	p. 218
Education and production	p. 226
Keeping going with genre	p. 231
Is genre everything?	p. 231
Relations among genres - paradigmatic relations	p. 235
Relations between genres - syntagmatic relations	p. 250
Dialogue	p. 260
Notes	p. 262
References	p. 267
Index	p. 286
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