Abstract
The foundations of modern approaches to speech genres in cultural practice lie in 19th-century philology, Russian Formalism, Americanist anthropology, and British social anthropology. Contemporary perspectives center on the ethnographic description of genre systems, the ontology and epistemology of genre, genre as functional variety, genre as solution to recurrent communicative problems, and genre as orienting framework for the regimentation of discourse. Persistent problems in the analysis of speech genres in cultural practice include what order(s) of linguistic phenomena genre comprehends, dimensions of context in the social life of genres, and the tension between normative types and emergent forms in the conception and analysis of genre.
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