Concept Of Genre Research Articles

A GRATITUDE AS A RITUAL LINGUISTIC GENRE OF A POLITICAL DISCUSSION

The article is devoted to the analysis of gratitude as a speech genre of ritual political communication. The purpose of the article – to analyze the genre features of gratitude as a kind of political text; which envisaged the formulation of such tasks: to define the concept of the speech genre and to outline the degree of his study in linguistics; to consider the specifics of ritual speech genres of political communication; to analyze the speech genre of gratitude in the Ukrainian ritual political discourse. Object of research – ritual displays of Ukrainian political discourse; subject - a speech genre of gratitude in the Ukrainian political discourse. The main issues of the theory of speech genres are considered, the views on the typology of Ukrainian ritual speech genres in political discourse are presented and the genre of gratitude is described. The genre and language specificity of gratitude in Ukrainian political discourse is compared with other ritual genres. The language genre is a communicative phenomenon, the type of organization of discourse, which involves a specific pragmatic method of the speaker, the selection of special expressions and lexical means, the expression of the individual picture of the world. For political communication, such speech genres are characteristic: greetings, festive treatment, gratitude, obituary and compassion, inaugural speech. Gratitude is the language genre of etiquette communication, it is not related to the political ritual directly, it specifies the contribution of the addressee to political life, has a specific addressee, and at the formal level is a dialogic written communication. For a particular implementation, political greetings are designed not only for the immediate addressee, but also for the target audience, the audience, therefore, perform the image function.

Genre Analysis of Legal Discourse

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The Keynotes of the 2016 Political Conventions: The Death of a Genre?

The concept of genre is an important one in rhetorical criticism. Important work has been done on presidential genres as well as more general ones such as the jeremiad and the apologia. In this vein is work on certain genres that recur at the many political party conventions. If one adopts an historical perspective, there are, from early-on, many genres—some explored by scholars, some not: the welcome address, the keynote address, the nominating and seconding speeches, and the vice presidential and presidential nomination acceptance speeches. There are also, more recently, addresses by former presidents, vanquished candidates, and—since the 1990s—prospective first spouses. This essay focuses on just one of these genres, the keynote. I argue that the genre is an important one, one that performs both important rhetorical and political work. Based on the 2016 party conventions, the genre is very much an endangered species of political communication, portending rhetorical problems for the nation’s two parties.

Genre Sphere of Modern Ukrainian Research Communication

The article deals with the problem of studying and understanding the Ukrainian scientific communication, its genre sphere in modern globalized high-tech society. Various social and cultural challenges caused the appearance of computer communication or net-communication, quantative growth of which attracts scientists of different fields. The modern form of social life are called global, network, information society. Information society – this is a knowledge society where mass produced, distributed and used various means of information. Exchange of scientific information, ideas and knowledge between scientists, researchers and specialists in various areas of science plays a leading role in the development of modern society. The concept of genre as a central category of discourse and text is separately highlighted. Different types of speech genres are shown. Genre sphere of scientific communication is outlined. The concepts of genres correlation with different types of discourse are of special attention. Scientific discourse as a complex communicative unit, which is thematically correlated set of scientific texts of different genre of implementation, due to socio-cultural influences and target setting communicants. The current stage of scientific communication is characterized by versatility of scientific style. Analytical and critical review of the social and thematic direction of Genre Study– Lingvogenology of scientific communication is done in the article.

Three Incidents at the Border of Genre

From a perspective of conceptual economy, rather than the specialized literature on genre, this text discusses what genre divisions can do when applied to cultural artifacts compared to other forms of classification or typology? On which aspect of the artifact is it rewarding for a concept of genre to operate, and what is achieved when extending its use beyond traditional divisions in fine arts, Hollywood movies and popular music? Are there restrictions inherent to the concept of genre itself, explicable in a grammar of the concept? The criteria unfolded by such a grammar seems to be more technical than properly aesthetic, close to the ideal of perfection in traditional normative poetics. With one significant addition, the criteria are always too specific to allow for the perfect example of genre. Perfection belongs to the law of the genre, not to the artifact enforcing the law. Imperfection may indeed explain the resilience of the genre form. What remains is a vertical structure, a model for which even the model example is a fall from grace.

Bakhtin and native language teaching in Brazil: some perspectives

The purpose of this article is to examine the infl uence of Bakhtinian theory, in particular the concept of speech genre, in offi cial documents of the Ministry of Education inBrazilintended for teachers in the public and private networks. In order to understand this very important impact of Bakhtin and the Circle, several aspects of how the works that were the hallmark of government guidance were received will be revisited. The outcome will be supplemented by analyzing a chapter of a textbook in the native language for high school students that deals with the concept of genre in teaching the production of argumentative texts.

Heavy metal: Genre? Style? Subculture?

AbstractAlthough popular music is increasingly recognized as an important area of inquiry in philosophy of art, many organizing principles have been taken over from other fields without scrutiny. This article selects heavy metal as an example of the value of applying philosophy of criticism to discourse about popular music. Metal is now in its fifth decade, and its combination of longevity and diversity have made it an attractive topic in popular music studies. In accounts of metal by musicologists and social science researches, metal is almost always referred to as a genre of music, and the genre is said to unify diverse metal subcultures, which are associated with diverse styles of metal. An examination of the concepts of genre and subculture as they are typically understood in popular music studies generally, and in metal studies in particular, suggests that they do not function to delineate metal as a unitary category. However, contemporary philosophy of art provides several theoretical principles that provide criteria for identifying a unified genre. The relevant theories are historical definitions of art and Kendall Walton's account of style. Viewed in terms of these philosophical developments, metal should be seen as an evolving assemblage of related styles, only some of which are associated with fans who constitute a subculture. However, it is not a "category" in Walton's sense of that term.Video abstract (click to view)

DIFICULDADES ESCOLARES EM CABINDA/ANGOLA: O QUE DIZEM AS MONOGRAFIAS?

Este trabalho analisou duas monografias dos cursos de pedagogia e psicologia, do ISCED/UON/Cabinda/Angola. O estudo teve como base a perspectiva histórico-cultural, de Vygotski, articulada com o conceito de gênero de discurso, de Bakhtin. Nessas monografias, encontramos uma diversidade de sentidos e significados. Esses sentidos e significados aparecem como sinônimos de baixo rendimento, insucesso ou fracasso escolar e dificuldades de aprendizagem. Entretanto, apesar dessa diversidade, temos como denominador comum a concepção de que as dificuldades são individuais e de fundo biológico. Elas estão localizadas nos estudantes e em suas famílias. Desse modo, os processos de escolarização nessas escolas de Cabinda, embora incluam os alunos nas escolas, caminham para a exclusão dos mesmos, o que nos indica que as dificuldades não são necessariamente de aprendizagem, mas, sim, que estão nesse processo excludente de escolarização. Pois as monografias estudadas também apontam as condições precárias de funcionamento das escolas e da formação de professores, além das diferenças linguísticas entre a língua local e o português, língua que se fala e escreve nas escolas, como fatores que concorrem para a exclusão de grande parte dos alunos. Isso revela a dupla face da modernidade que, se, por um lado, integra os alunos dentro das escolas, por outro, exclui-os dos processos de ensino-aprendizagem quando tais estudantes manifestam diferenças socioculturais. Por meio de nossas análises, pudemos perceber que nas escolas de Cabinda, como em muitas escolas no Brasil, ensinam-se leitura, escrita e matemática como aquisições de habilidades individuais e não como atividades humanas, como nos ensinou Vygotski.

<b>Ensino e aprendizagem da leitura: um diagnóstico entre alunos do 4° ano do Ensino Fundamental

Com base na compreensão do caráter dialógico da língua, na concepção interacionista da linguagem e nos gêneros discursivos como instrumentos de ensino, este estudo tem como objetivo apresentar uma análise da compreensão leitora de alunos do 4º ano do Ensino Fundamental da rede pública de ensino, com o propósito de contribuir para o desenvolvimento de práticas que promovam o letramento em leitura. Trata-se dos dados gerados dentro de uma Pesquisa de Mestrado – PROFLETRAS – em fase de andamento, caracterizando-se, assim, como uma pesquisa qualitativa-interpretativista, do tipo etnográfico e pesquisa-ação, alicerçada pela Linguística Aplicada. Na pesquisa, iremos analisar dados de um diagnóstico em leitura, a fim de propor intervenções didáticas que contribuam para a formação de leitores proficientes, investigando nossa prática pedagógica. Esta pesquisa encontra-se inserida no projeto vinculado ao Programa Observatório da Educação – CAPES/INEP.

Understanding Origen: The Genre(s) of the Gospels in Light of Ancient Greek Philology and Modern Genre Theory

The reflections of Origen of Alexandria (ca. 185–254 CE) concerning the nature of the New Testament Gospels may be better understood if viewed in relation to a scheme of standard introductory questions used by ancient Greek philologists in their commentaries on classical Greek literature. While this scheme did not include questions about the form or genre of the writings to be analyzed, Origen repeatedly added such reflections when he adapted the scheme in his commentaries on biblical writings. These reflections inform us of his expectations of the Gospels. Using a modern concept of genre as a system of expectations shared between author and reader, and frequently intended to shape the worldview of the readers, Origen’s views of the nature of the Gospels can be expressed as their simultaneous participation in two genres: Christian teaching and ancient historiography.

Genre Theory and Historicism

Genre is a word whose time has come — and gone — and might now, perhaps, be coming back again. Debates about particular literary kinds have been com-mon in literary criticism since Aristotle’s Poetics, but they acquired a new intensity and reflexivity in the third quarter of the twentieth century, as structuralists and poststructuralists struggled to redefine the concept of genre itself.

At the cognitive and situational interface

Characteristics such as interdisciplinarity and dynamism make both written medical communication and medical translation particularly complex. In order to address this complexity, researchers need to adopt an interdisciplinary perspective (involving discourse analysis, sociology of professions, knowledge communication, etc.) and to approach the communicative process as a complex and comprehensive chain of cause and effect interactions at three levels: cognitive (the translation act), situational (the translation event) and socio-cultural (norms, initiator, etc.). The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a research project concerned with communication in the highly sensitive area of cancer patients in two Spanish hospitals, to outline the methodological proposal of the Gentt Group, which advocates for flexibility in the approach (quantitative and qualitative methods) and for the use of the notion of genre as a conceptual tool for research purposes. The concept of genre combines linguistic, cognitive and contextual aspects, and it allows for links with translation studies theory.

Agir linguageiro, tomada de consciência e desenvolvimento profissional do professor em formação continuada

Resumo: Neste artigo, discute-se a relação entre o conceito de gênero de texto e o desenvolvimento profissional de professores em formação continuada. Entendido como instrumento psicológico, observa-se como o conceito de gênero de texto foi mobilizado em entrevistas realizadas com uma professora em formação continuada, procurando evidenciar "pistas" que esse agir linguageiro nos dá acerca de seu (possível) desenvolvimento profissional, ao evocar um processo de tomada de consciência sobre o trabalho docente com projetos didáticos de gênero. De natureza qualitativa-interpretativista, a pesquisa, empreendida, à luz dos princípios do Interacionismo Sociodiscursivo, procura destacar a articulação entre episteme e práxis no trabalho do professor em formação continuada. Os resultados obtidos sugerem que o debate social instaurado no processo de formação tem reflexos positivos no desenvolvimento do professor, ao propiciar que ele reflita sobre seu trabalho e aproprie-se de novas formas de agir, pautadas no conceito de gênero de texto.

Kris Aquino and the/as a Philippine Horror Genre

This paper discusses Kris Aquino as text vis-à-vis as a unique horror genre, within the context of her title as the “Philippine Box Office Horror Queen.” While foregrounding comprehensive arguments about Aquino’s textuality, the essay also reveals her cinematic history, which has crowned Aquino as the queen of the genre, which the author calls, pelikula ng lagim . This cinematic history is used as a narrative guide in constructing an in-depth scrutiny on the concepts of genre, lagim, and the pelikula ng lagim. The author strategically plays with these concepts, thus heightening their meaning, while revealing the rich, covert discourse of Aquino as a genre that has launched itself as “a culture of kasarian” [literally, gender, but by way of a Filipino root word, sari, variety, or more appropriately, polysemy], highlighted in the two franchise Feng Shui movies (Roño, 2004, 2014), where she played the heroine. While these movies may be said to have placed the Philippines into the realm of Asian Horror Films, they also present Aquino as a text that is “becoming a complete genre.”

Swedish sinology and cross-disciplinary research cooperation: insights into transcultural genre concepts and genre grids in literature

In Sweden since the 1990s, partly as a response to rapid globalization and cultural exchange, there has been increased interest in cross-disciplinary research cooperation within the Humanities and Social Sciences. Cross-disciplinary research programs also have become increasingly important for Swedish sinologists, especially scholars within the field of Chinese literature, both ancient and modern literature. In this article, I will discuss one of the more influential research programs: Literature and Literary History in Global Contexts (1999–2006), which was financed by the Swedish Research Council. The program enrolled more than 20 scholars from the fields of Oriental Studies (including four sinologists), African Studies and Literature at several Swedish universities. These scholars did comparative research on the notions of literature and genre across times and cultures, and on interactions between literary cultures in the modern world. I will reflect upon the research results on genre theories, and discuss some of my insights gained on transcultural genre concepts and genre grids as a participant in the group of scholars working with genres with a comparative approach within this program. Finally, I will briefly introduce some current cross-disciplinary programs and publications involving Swedish sinologists that have been inspired by this experience of working in large, cross-disciplinary research programs on comparative literature in Sweden, such as the program Cosmopolitan and Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures (2016–2020).

Communication compartmentalisation by Australian tertiary students

ABSTRACTResearch into the increasing range of communication has largely focused around the idea of ‘communications choices’, examining why one technology is preferred over another. This study examined how two groups of Australian undergraduate students organised their use of multiple communication technologies, with the groups coming from similar academic backgrounds but separated by five years. Utilising a diary-based approach, it found that the participants used a wide range of communication technologies, from landline phones to short message services, suggesting that choice is contextual. The students used particular communications technologies for particular purposes and with particular correspondents, compartmentalising their communications by technology, person, and purpose. It also found that the way they compartmentalised their communications changed significantly over time. This is explored through the concept of communications genres.

기술적 장르 개념을 활용한 시 읽기 방법 연구 -기형도 시를 중심으로-

기술적 장르 개념을 활용한 시 읽기 방법 연구 -기형도 시를 중심으로-

A Study of the Learners Metaphorical Perceptions of Literary Genres

The perception of language has been studied from various aspects to date, whereas how students perceive literature remains today a less researched area. The quantity of qualitative research concerning the perception of literature needs to be increased. The present study aims to fill this gap by exploring students’ perception in respect to the concept of literary genres through the use of metaphor as they reflect the way we perceive the world and shape our professional ideas and attitudes. In addition, the study investigates whether there is a difference in perceptions between junior and senior learners in regard to their perception of literary genres. The study participants were 58 first and 43 fourth grade ELL students enrolled in Istanbul University, Turkey. The data were collected through the use of semi structured interviews, multiple-choice questionnaire and metaphor elicitation papers. The metaphors of literary genres exhibited both the positive and negative perceptions of the learners. The Ring, Narnia, detergent concentrate, veritaserum (‘iksir’ in Turkish) and pomegranate were some of the unique positive metaphors of the learners. Some metaphors seem to be negative such as Pandora’s Box, dark hole, ivy and labyrinth.

A Bildungsroman for a waterfront development: Literary genre and the planning narratives of Jätkäsaari, Helsinki

Abstract This article examines the narratives involved in the planning of Jätkäsaari (Helsinki), an industrial harbour environment currently being redeveloped. It starts out with an analysis of Hyvä jätkä/Good Chap (Hannu Mäkelä, 2009), a literary novel commissioned by the city to promote the area, arguing that this cultural product should not be seen merely as a piece of cultural branding. Rather, the novel’s fictional construction of the area’s past and future draws attention to the narrative characteristics of planning itself. Using the concepts of literary genre and metaphor, an examination of Jätkäsaari’s planning narratives shows the ambivalent and often contradictory planning visions of the area. This study aims at re-examining the considerable research tradition in urban and planning studies that sees urban planning as a form of storytelling, by applying concepts from literary and narrative theory to the analysis of planning narratives.

BetweenHistoryandTafsīr: Notes on al-Ṭabarī’s Methodological Strategies

The bulk of the cited anecdotes in the most immediately relevant section pertaining to the Fall of Adam within al-Ṭabarī’s History consist solely of material that is duplicated in al-Ṭabarī’s commentary on But Satan made them slip in Q. 2:36. The duplicated material is not presented in the same order across the two works, but the extent of the overlap between the two sources is intriguing. In his introduction to the Tafsīr, published (in the form of public lectures) from 270/883–884 onwards, al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) gives a definition of his own methodology; the introduction to his History, the first volume of which was made public some 20 years later in 294/906–907, announces meanwhile a focus on the history of kings. Yet al-Ṭabarī does not provide any explicit elucidation of what this difference might entail. In areas where al-Ṭabarī’s subject matter spans both texts such a question seems especially pertinent.This article seeks to contribute to a more detailed understanding of how concepts of genre affected the material that was included by al-Ṭabarī in the History and the Tafsīr, and to expose the author's editorial techniques, with specific reference to the parallel versions of the story of Adam and the Fall al-Ṭabarī provided. It draws upon the preceding historical account of the Creation of Eve, and the material that frames the repentance narratives. It also seeks to ascertain whether the individual context of each Qur'anic pericope affected the presentation of material within the Tafsīr itself.