Concept Of Genre Research Articles

Um ponto muda um conto: contribuições de um software educativo no processo de desenvolvimento de letramentos

Neste artigo, pretendemos analisar as práticas de letramento subjacentes às atividades didáticas presentes no software educativo Um ponto muda um conto. A atividade em que focamos as análises objetiva mostrar como as práticas de letramento se relacionam com os conceitos de gêneros textuais para que o aluno aprenda os vários aspectos inerentes a eles, inclusive os interacionais. Abordamos também as questões relacionadas ao uso de softwares educativos no contexto da sala de aula. Para isso, usamos, como aporte teórico principal, Kleiman (2008), Street (2000) e Ribeiro (2013). A pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, é bibliográfica. Os resultados mostraram que o software educativo analisado tem o potencial de desenvolver os letramentos dos alunos, pois trabalha vários aspectos relacionados à leitura e aos gêneros textuais num contexto virtual de aprendizagem.

Reconsidering Qur'anic Genre

The Qur'an's employment of diverse modes of discourse is, perhaps, the text's defining literary feature. These discourses, ranging from apocalyptic, to narrative, to legal, have long been observed by Western scholars. Genre studies of the Qur'an, however, have largely stagnated, and little progress has been made beyond cursory classifications. This stagnation is particularly stunting to the study of the textual history of the Qur'an, as vital questions concerning the development of individual genres and the relationship between Qur'anic genre and the unit of the sura remain unanswered. This article marks a first attempt at formulating a literary framework for approaching Qur'anic genre. It will synthesise existing conceptions of Qur'anic genre into a common interpretative framework: individual Qur'anic genres exist as thematically and syntactically demarcated literary units. The article will then propose a novel, literary approach that utilises a comparative thematic and syntactic structural analysis of the Qur'an text to uncover the original, communicated pieces of Qur'anic revelation from the Prophet to an audience in time, or ‘Qur'anic utterances'. This literary analysis is applied to Sūrat Āl ʿImrān and will demonstrate that it is constructed of 34 individual utterances and nine distinct literary genres.

Análise das mediações do pop-popular do videoclipe Flei

Este artigo propõe uma análise do videoclipe Flei, levando em consideração as articulações entre gênero, gênero musical e plataformas on-line de disponibilização de conteúdos musicais. Acredita-se que para compreender o que é um videoclipe devemos levar em consideração o papel que as novas mediações audiovisuais desempenham em um ambiente onde a grade televisiva já não tem a importância que tinha na era MTV. Assim, buscamos analisar o videoclipe da canção “Flei”, do cantor Daniel Peixoto, apontando como as assinaturas de gênero e gênero musical são articuladas de modo político e estético. A partir do desenvolvimento do arcabouço teórico formado pelos conceitos de videoclipe pós-MTV, mediação, gênero e gêneros musicais chegamos à conclusão de que os videoclipes no atual cenário cultural antes de serem produtos de divulgação de produtos musicais são mediações de performances públicas de gostos associadas aos gêneros musicais.

A Review of Genre Approaches within Linguistic Traditions

This paper reviews three major approaches to genre analysis; Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS), English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). Based on the review, it is noted that RGS is an approach which regards genre as a form of social action involving analysis of genre through detailed accounts of the social and cultural contexts with an emphasis on how a genre fulfills its social purpose and actions. On the other hand, ESP is an approach which views genre as a communicative event characterised by their communicative purposes as well as rhetorical features where the discourse community acts as those which recognises and sanctions the acceptance of a genre. The final genre approach, which is SFL, perceives genre as the cultural purpose of texts, achieved through a genre’s structural and realisational patterns where meanings are made within the genre. Overall, the ESP and SFL approaches share fundamental view that linguistic features of texts are connected to social context and function. Thus both of the approaches take on a linguistic approach in describing genres. RGS, in contrast, investigates genres through the study of society in which genre is being used thus taking an ethnographic approach to analysis of genres. This paper concludes with a discussion on the concept of genre presented in the various approaches and the possible emergence of other approaches in the study of genre.

Matka odchodzi Tadeusza Różewicza jako asamblaż narracyjny

This work is an attempt at reading Tadeusz Rozewicz’s book entitled Mother Departs from the perspective of literary genetics. A literary genre has been treated as a factor in the interpretation, which could influence the reception of the text. The first part concerns proposals indicated by scholars and critics in the context of this work, such as the Lament, the Treaty of poetry, collage or silva. In the second part the interpretation was carried out taking into account the author's concept of genre, which is narrative Assemblage Art.

The concept of literary genre

The concept of literary genre

Wave-Like Commentaries: The Structure and Philosophical Orientation of Middle Platonist Commentaries

AbstractScholars remain far from reaching agreement about the structure of Middle Platonist commentaries on Plato's dialogues: some take them to have been running line-by-line commentaries, while others believe that Middle Platonist commentaries were mainly specialist works. In this paper I propose a fresh and comprehensive analysis of extant sources in order to show that both views, while shedding light on important features of this literary genre in Middle Platonism, should be supplemented in order to draw a more complex picture. Extant sources suggest that the Middle Platonist commentaries were characterized by a set of features which shaped a specific conception of the literary genre: they were lemmatic and followed the development of a dialogue in its progression, yet at the same time they applied a thematic focus and hence admitted a substantial degree of selectivity.

Rhetorical Transformations of the Pragmaticmatrix of the Genre of Newspaper Literary Criticism

This paper examines the structural principle of the genre of newspaper literary criticism (NLC) based on the rhetorical motivation of textual structures and discourse functions developed on the basis of a communication purpose of literary-critical commentary. This having been established as a scientific research goal, the concept of genre (Swales 1990) and the theoretical and methodological practice of the Rhetorical Structure Theory (Mann and Thompson 1988) were applied, providing a semantic/pragmatic interface where text propositions of global significance are interpreted on the basis of discourse functions (DF) with matrix motivation ( NLC genre pragmatic matrix: informing – interpretation of meaning – significance of a literary work ), and in the domain of textual structure by abstract entities of nucleus and/or satellite , in the form of explicit and implicit propositions between which coherent relations of rhetorical nature are established. Within the framework of the theoretical and methodological analysis, the paper indicates the problem of compatibility of the sequential interpretative models (the macrostructure model) and schematic prototypical superstructures in the analysis of rhetorical motivation discourse; an additional section of the paper focuses on the comparative analysis of an NLC text, based on a sequential and rhetorical model. The final part of the paper presents the analysis of two literary-critical reviews of the same literary work from the standpoint of the theoretical-methodological practice of the RST and the concept of genre, where the presented rhetorical transformation of the pragmatic matrix of NLC genre enabled proposing a hypothesis on the genre rhetorical variation of NLC.

Dzieło jako proces. Wokół spójności tekstów Tadeusza Różewicza

Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie twórczości Tadeusza Różewicza, rozpatrywanej ze względu na zagadnienie spójności tekstu. Utwory Różewicza sprawiają wrażenie otwartych w tym sensie, że nie zamykają się w jednej formie, którą można by uznać za ostateczną, ale wciąż ewoluują, publikowane w kolejnych tomikach lub w dwóch równolegle drukowanych wersjach, rękopiśmiennej i sprawiającej wrażenie ostatecznej. Autor wykracza w swojej twórczości poza ramy gatunków literackich czy stylu artystycznego, a także poza sferę tekstu, którą można zidentyfikować z jego głosem, i twórczo wykorzystuje elementy gotowych wypowiedzi użytkowych. Pozwala to wskazać w jego twórczości dominację dwu strategii tekstotwórczych: eksponowaniu procesualności tworzenia i literackiego recyklingu polegającego na eksperymentalnym przetwarzaniu języka nieartystycznego. Utwory Różewicza, pozornie otwarte, labilne i nietrwałe, w istocie tworzą jednak całościową i spójną koncepcję literackości. Trudno ją uchwycić w analizie pojedynczego utworu czy nawet całego tomiku, tę właściwość pisarstwa Różewicza ujawnia całościowe spojrzenie na jego dorobek. Znaczenia w jego utworach formują się nie tyle w obrębie pojedynczego tekstu, ile między różnymi jego wariantami, a więc znaczące są tu i teksty, i łączące je relacje. Otwierając kompozycję swoich utworów, Różewicz projektuje lekturę wielokierunkową, skontekstualizowaną, równoległą i zespajającą rozproszone w całym dorobku wersje utworu w jedną złożoną całość. Sankcjonuje tym samym swój otwarty warsztat pracy nad tekstem jako metaliteracki problem, przedmiot reprezentacji i zarazem integralny składnik utworu literackiego, a samo dzieło traktuje jako dynamiczny proces, a nie strukturę zamkniętą w scalających utwór formach. Teoretycznym punktem odniesienia moich rozważań jest koncepcja zamiennika gatunkowego Kazimierza Wyki, koncepcje spójności tekstu Marii Renaty Mayenowej i Włodzimierza Boleckiego oraz założenia krytyki genetycznej.

The Concept of Genre in Music: A New Model Suggestion for the Classification of Music Genres

İnsanoğlu, yaşam sürecinde karşılaştığı kimi kaosları önce anlamlandırabilmek ve
 bu kaoslardan kurtulabilmek için bir düzene ihtiyaç duyar. Bu düzen ihtiyacı
 belirlenen bir ya da birkaç ölçütün yardımıyla giderilir. Bilimsel zeminde kaosun bir
 düzene dönüştürülmesine yönelik en temel çaba “sınıflandırma”dır. Bir araştırmaya
 konu olan olgu ya da olgular önce sınıflandırılır; daha sonra diğer olgu ya da olgular
 ile bir ilişkisellik (relationality) çerçevesinde irdelenir.
 Müzik, bir fenomen olarak bilimsel bir çerçevede irdelenebilir. Eğer amaç bu ise,
 müzikte var olan kaosu kozmosa dönüştürebilmek ve müzik fenomenini
 anlamlandırabilmek için sınıflandırma vazgeçilmez bir zorunluluktur. Müzik
 gerçekten karmaşık bir fenomendir. Müziksel bir sınıflandırmada müziğin tüm
 bileşenlerinin ve süreçlerinin dahil edilmesi yerinde olur. Dolayısıyla müzikleri
 sınıflandırırken, monolojik ve indirmeci bir yaklaşım yerine; sınıflandırmalarda çok
 ölçütlülük ve ilişkisellik yer almalıdır. Bu makalede müzik sınıflandırmalarına yönelik
 bu çerçevede yeni bir model önerilmektedir. Bu öneri ile temel amaç, monolojik ve
 indirgemeci yaklaşımlardan uzak kalınarak -olabildiğince- tutarlı ve nesnel ölçütler
 üzerinde inşa edilmesine yöneliktir. 

REVISITANDO PROJETOS DE ENSINO DE FÍSICA NUMA PERSPECTIVA BAKHTINIANA

Neste artigo, apontamos algumas correlações entre o contexto histórico-social da década de 1970 e a esfera do ensino de física da época, por meio da análise de enunciados expressos nos textos de dois projetos de ensino: O Projeto Física da Universidade de Harvard e o Projeto de Ensino de Física da Universidade de São Paulo. Dada a infinidade e complexidade das mediações entre sociedade e projeto, focamos nas mediações que se referem às esferas mais amplas da atividade social. Queremos delinear as mediações sócio históricas que permitem identificar os limites sociais e históricos a que estavam submetidos. Portanto, é nessa relação dialética entre obra educacional e horizonte histórico de uma sociedade que tomamos o conceito de gênero discursivo (Bakhtin, 2006), com o qual é possível representar as relações entre história e discurso. Nessa relação se estabelecem a teleologia social, as intenções comunicativas e as escolhas discursivas dos sujeitos da atividade humana. Dessa forma, nossa perspectiva discursiva, social e histórica de análise indica que os discursos educacionais por eles produzidos expressaram necessidades, valores e compromissos de grupos sociais organizados daquelas sociedades e que suas produções ideológicas foram refletidas e refratadas no conteúdo temático, na composição e estilo dos gêneros produzidos para o ensino daquele contexto.

Self-selecting books in a children’s fiction collection arranged by genre

Given school librarians promote reading and assist students in the self-selection of texts, this case study examines youth information-seeking practices, specifically book selection, within the context of a genrefied fiction collection. It examines how sixth grade students interacted with the collection along with their teachers’ perceptions of the collection’s recent genrefication. Data includes observation and video recording of 16 sixth grade students’ browsing activity during four checkout times, interviews with eight students, and survey responses from eight classroom teachers. Findings include that students used prior knowledge of genre for beginning book selection, preferred browsing with a peer and were more likely to leave with a book when they did, and tended to browse across genres even when coming to the library with a particular genre in mind. Classroom teachers viewed genrefication as a means for supporting students as readers, and appreciated that the library’s organization reinforced their curricular goals around teaching the concept of genre.

Traducir el policial. Aproximaciones al género en La traducción (1998), de Pablo De Santis

The scattered and limited studies on the work of Pablo De Santis tend to consider that his texts are crossed by the detective genre, but at the same time there are no productions justifying this claim. Therefore, in this paper I focus on La traduccion (originally published in 1998 and finalist of the Premio Planeta in 1997), with the intention of analyzing the ways in which this novel uses and works with different aspects of the detective genre. First, I analyze the double spatial delimitation and the presence of a foreign language as elements that allow us to associate La traduccion with the classic detective fiction. Then I focus on the problem of the nationalization of detective fiction and the figure of the superintendent, two factors that allow us to associate the novel with the local tradition of detective fiction. I also analyze the history of sea lions, parallel to the main plot, in which I find ways to set a link with the hard-boiled fiction. Finally, based on the various issues identified, I finish the paper with a reflection on the possible uses of the concept of genre. With the sum of these elements, I see that La traduccion expresses a deep knowledge and precise work of De Santis with the detective genre, even though the author denies its character of detective fiction.

Introduction: Difference and Dialogism in Family Narratives

Abstract As a primary generator and transmitter of expressive culture, the family is an important source for folklorists. Nevertheless, our dependence on family often has gone unrecognized and unproblematized in folklore scholarship. Enlarging the scope of family folklore beyond an identified, largely celebratory core to include other considerations of family narrative, we complicate folkloristic concepts of group, genre, and performance. Like any other group, families are made, not given, and are performed in diverse and shifting ways. The articles in this special issue explore the inherently dialogic, multi-voiced, co-produced, and sometimes conflictive nature of narratives of identity shared within families. By taking family, rather than the individual, as the producer and primary audience for these stories, the introductory essay and the articles that follow highlight ways in which family storytelling invites imaginative identification even across difference and contributes to a folkloristic understanding of both family identity and personal narrative.

Gra w baśnie. O relacji baśni i gier wideo

The article presents the new-founded relations between the genre of fairytale and its representations in video games. Following the concept of multimedia genres created by Edward Balcerzan, the article demonstrates a holistic view of the term “genre”. It combines it with the media theory by Krzysztof Kozłowski, which emphasizes social connotations of each medium and their ability to represent different genres. On the other hand, each and every genre can manifest itself through various media that enables mutual development. This theory finds its reflection in the analysis of the above-mentioned relations. The author applies the theoretical tools used for the analysis and interpretation of literary fairytales to video games based on the fairytale motifs. Two chosen examples, Trine by the Frozenbyte studio and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons by the Starbreeze studio, represent not only a new way to fulfill the potential of the genre, but also innovative solutions in the evolution of gaming.

Inserção de estudantes indígenas na universidade pública brasileira a partir da produção textual

Nas últimas décadas, o governo brasileiro tem orientado suas políticas públicas no sentido de promover ações que resgatem dívidas sociais e históricas com os povos originários. Em 2004, foi firmado o convênio FUB/FUNAI para formar profissionais indígenas. Entre os inúmeros problemas enfrentados pelos estudantes, estão as dificuldades de leitura e escrita. Como medida de intervenção, foram propostas reflexões contextualizadas quanto à cultura e à área específica de formação de cada estudante. Para isso, produziram um texto sobre pertencimento e uma resenha de um texto de suas respectivas áreas, passando por várias versões, a partir de feedback textual-interativo. A estratégia adotada, fundamentada na contextualização do universo indígena, levou-os para a sua realidade e possibilitou intervenção, com metodologia específica para a produção de textos, envolvendo sua realidade social e considerando sua origem e suas diferentes etnias. Fundamentados numa concepção dialógica e sociocultural de língua, texto e gênero, foi trabalhada a produção a partir da familiarização da linguagem científica em oposição ao senso comum como exercício acadêmico. Pela avaliação final, a prática proporcionou desenvolvimento de habilidades de leitura e escrita, despertou interesse e promoveu interação e inclusão dos indígenas na Universidade.

Entre as dimensões “escondidas” do letramento acadêmico e os presumidos sociais do gênero artigo de pesquisa nas diretrizes para autores de periódicos em ciência da computação

O presente trabalho analisou textos de diretrizes para autores de seis periódicos em Ciência da Computação, com o objetivo de verificar a existência de dimensões “escondidas” do letramento, as quais podem ocultar informações relevantes para uma melhor elaboração dos textos de acordo com o esperado pelas revistas. A partir de uma análise etnográfica discursiva, a qual possibilitou a compreensão dos conceitos de língua, texto e gênero que fundamentam as práticas de letramento das revistas, alguns ocultamentos foram identificados e relacionados a presumidos sociais do gênero artigo de pesquisa. A análise revelou, dentre outras coisas, que os periódicos concentram as orientações, em grande parte, nos aspectos formais e estruturais do texto, deixando “escondidas” dimensões do letramento relacionadas a conteúdo, retórica e ideologia, por exemplo. Embasados por uma concepção de língua, texto e gênero que se aproxima à abordagem de ensino de escrita identificada por Lea e Street (1998) como Socialização Acadêmica, esses periódicos partem do presumido de que as especificidades do discurso acadêmico são únicas e transferíveis de gênero para gênero, independentemente dos eventos de letramento em questão. Assim, contam com um conhecimento do letramento acadêmico que pesquisadores menos experientes podem ainda não reconhecer, dificultando a iniciação desses novatos nas discussões acadêmicas.

Жанрово–стильова модель інструментальних фортепіанних циклів в творчості українських композиторів кінця ХХ століття.

Мета статті визначає поняття жанрово-стильового моделювання як одного з базових у сучасному музикознавстві; розглядає концептуальні напрямки модифікацій жанрово-стильових моделей у сфері інструментальних фортепіанних циклів в творчості українських композиторів кінця ХХ століття. Методологія дослідження передбачає взаємодію музикознавчого та історіологічного підходів. Наукова новизна обумовлена виділенням поняття жанрово-стильового моделювання як одного з базових у сучасному музикознавстві. Висновки свідчать про те, що трактування різних жанрів інструментальних циклів української музики кінця ХХ ст. пов’язано з концепційним переосмисленням їх первинної семантики.Ключові слова: жанрово-стильова модель, інструментальні цикли, партита, сюїта, мініатюра.

Educational podcasts: A genre analysis

Academic attention to educational podcasts has grown significantly in recent years. However, to date, the concept of genres in podcasting is yet to gain scholarly attention. By examining genres emergent from a corpus of educational podcasts available online, this paper introduces the value of genre analysis to educational podcast research. It proposes three genres, named ‘The Quick Burst’, ‘The Narrative’ and ‘The Chat Show’. The three genres show both the versatility of podcasting for education and how genre analysis could introduce new ideas to the educational podcasting literature, including ideas about supporting deep learning in e-learning environments.

PRINCIPLES OF TEXT-MAKING OF A POLITICAL PROGRAM AS A SPEECH GENRE OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE

The article is devoted to the analysis of the political program as one of the language genres of Ukrainian political discourse. The purpose of the paper is to study the specifics of a political program as a speech genre at creating and maintaining a political image. The goal has determined the solution of the following tasks: to characterize the political program as speech genre; to discover the structural and compositional features of political programs; determine the verbal specificity of political programs; analyze the implementation of the image function in political programs. The object of research is Ukrainian political discourse in the linguistic and pragmatic aspect, and the subject is the speech genre of the political program. The material was the texts of official and promotional political programs of well-known Ukrainian politicians and political parties (2004-2016). The concept of the speech genre is outlined, classifications of speech genres of political communication are presented, author’s approach to definition of types of political speech genres is proposed. The performative nature of the political program is proved and the features of informative and image speech genres are singled out in it. The basic principles of constructing the text of political programs are presented. The political program has signs of two types of speech genres of political discourse – informative and imaginative, but due to the dominance of the facts in software texts, we assign them to the image. They are aimed at presenting ideological landmarks and proposals of a political subject, based on political performances and subject to the three text-based principles – the thesaurus, the constrastic and the dialogic. Prospects for the study are the further development of the typology of speech genres of political discourse.