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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook of Writing and Text Production
EditorsEva-Maria Jakobs, Daniel Perrin
Number of pages17
Volume10
Place of PublicationBerlin/Boston
PublisherMouton de Gruyter
Publication date27 Feb 2014
Edition1
Pages305-322
Chapter17
ISBN (Print)978-3-11-022063-6
ISBN (Electronic)9783110220674
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Feb 2014
SeriesHandbooks of Applied Linguistics

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