Beyond single genres: Pattern mapping in global communication

Jack Andersen, Charles Bazerman, Jesper Wiborg Schneider

Abstract

This chapter reviews the literature using qualitative, ethnographic, historical, and bibliometric methods that examine the role of genres in activities and should provide ways of observing the organized production of genred texts within social systems as well as the dynamic and intertwined change of genres and systems. Genres are parts of larger systems which reinforce their familiarity, patterning, meaning, and even recognizable and meaningful variation. Within the social structures and relationships mediated by these systems or collections of genres two specific kinds of informational domains are constructed: the ordered, related network of texts that define the activity space and provide resources for each new text (intertextuality), and the actual knowledge represented within the network of texts (including the evaluation and application potentials of the represented knowledge). These systems of intertextuality and knowledge are in turn consequential for the social documentary systems they circulate among in the form of genres.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelHandbook of Writing and Text Production
RedaktørerEva-Maria Jakobs, Daniel Perrin
Antal sider17
Vol/bind10
UdgivelsesstedBerlin/Boston
ForlagMouton de Gruyter
Publikationsdato27 feb. 2014
Udgave1
Sider305-322
Kapitel17
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-11-022063-6
ISBN (Elektronisk)9783110220674
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 27 feb. 2014
NavnHandbooks of Applied Linguistics

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