Genre Analysis Research Articles

M.A.K. HALLIDAY'S SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS AND GENRE THEORY

The article deals with M.A.K. Holliday’s systemic-functional theory of language in its connection with genre studies. It analyzes the functional approach to language within the framework of the “Sidney school” of linguistics in the aspect of the evolution of its theoretical approaches starting from functional grammar to the procedural model of genre. Special attention is paid to the problem of the connection among language, society and culture, which is realized not directly, but through a number of semiotic forms of psycholinguistic nature, to which genre can be attributed. The article helps to revise the traditional idea of genre as a kind of style, which has been established in Russian philology.

Сайт Омского государственного педагогического университета как оценочный гипержанр

Based on the basic concepts of the theory of speech genres and theoretical positions in the field of functional semantics of evaluation, genre forms typical of the hypergenre “Omsk State Pedagogical University Website” are analysed: news, reports, interviews. The positive-evaluative tonality of the hypergenre as a whole and its constituent speech genres is revealed. The predominance of indirect forms of expressing a positive assessment of the university through the use of various sub-genre speech formations is noted. The linguistic means of forming evaluative meanings are determined.

A professional blog as a special structural hypertext unit in the space of Internet communications

The purpose of the study is to identify the hypertext features of a professional blog in the space of the Internet environment. The professional type of blog is a separate unit of the Internet environment and is characterized by a hypertext structure within the framework of Internet communication. The article analyzes the main structural and content characteristics of a professional blog from the point of view of the hypertext organization of the Internet environment. The study is based on the material of the English language. The theoretical significance is determined by the fact that the data obtained make it possible to deepen knowledge about such important aspects of modern linguistics as the linguistic nature of electronic hypertext, its structural and substantive aspects. In addition, the study of hypertext features of professional English-language blogs contributes to the development of the theory of speech genres in the context of Internet communication. The practical significance of the research is reflected in the fact that its results can be used in the process of teaching general language theory, the basics of computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, as well as in the development of elective courses on Internet communication. Using the methods of continuous sampling and description, the study analyzed the text units of 3 professional blogs of large foreign companies conducted in English. As a result, it was revealed that the professional type of blog is a hypertext unit of the Internet environment, representing a frame model with periodically updated author's posts, hypertext links, and comments. Despite the large number of works devoted to the study of hypertext, its organization and genre affiliation, there is currently no single and generally recognized typology of hypertext in the context of the professional variety of blogs, its creation is one of the priorities of modern researchers due to the rapid development of blog technologies. The scientific novelty lies in the approach that was taken to study the structural and content features of hypertext in the context of other types of blogs. In this regard, the basic principles of this approach are analyzed, the defining features of a blog are identified, taking into account its professional variety. Special attention was paid to the structure of electronic hypertext: the functional differentiation of hypertext links and ways of organizing links between hypertexts were considered.

Малые фольклорные жанры и их гендерная специфика как отражение этнокультурных универсалий русских и тувинцев

The paper provides an examination of the specifics of the functioning of small genres as a verbal way of representing semiotic codes of the conceptual worldview of Russians and Tuvans. The purpose of the study was to explore the place and role of small genres in the upbringing of children as a reflection of the specific ethnocultural universals of Russians and Tuvans. Russian and Tuvan folklore, such as lullabies, jokes, nursery rhymes, and detecting the place of small folklore genres in the system of ethnic cultures of Tuvans and Russians for the formation of their gender identity, determined the objectives of the study; identification of the symbolic essence of the subject symbols corresponding to the dominant rituals of the two peoples in consolidating gender differences, as well as the influence of these genres on the expansion of the linguistic picture of the child's world. The paper focuses the attention onto the research of Tuvan and Russian folklore, which absorbed the stereotypes of gender behavior and moral and cultural guidelines governing the national type of relationships between men and women, embedded in small speech genres. The authors came to the conclusion that the study of small speech genres that foster respect for national cultural values correlates with the tasks of preserving the traditional cultural traditions of two peoples — Tuvans and Russians.

Etude Genre in the Works of Contemporary Pianists-Composers: Traditions and Innovation

The article is devoted to the study of the etude genre, which in the work of domestic composers-pianists of the second half of the twentieth – early twenty-first centuries became an experiment and capture of a personal artistic picture of the world. The focus of the article is two opuses by contemporary pianist composers М. Kollontai and E. Chernov. As a result of the cycle of analysis of etudes op. 55 Kollontai, the author comes to the conclusion that this work continues the line of Liszt’s transcendentalism. Particular attention in this cycle is aimed at considering religious and spiritual themes expressed at the verbal level. The composer’s artistic comments on the etudes, the epigraph from the poems of the poet and Catholic priest Geselle, the afterword to the plays, explain and explore the conceptual field of the program composition, which embodied New Testament stories related to the way of the cross of Jesus Christ on earth. For the piano cycle – Nine etudes-pictures op. 11 by Chernov, nine etudes-pictures op. 39 Rachmaninoff. In the course of the analysis, it is noted that the cycle of etudes by Chernov is characterized by the following features: a concentric type of composition with an aspiration to the finale, the presence of a lyrical core, the development and interweaving of two psychological modes (lyrical and dramatic), which gives the cycle integrity and harmony, paired grouping of etudes according to the principle of contrast, the presence of leitmotifs, as well as leitgenres (nocturne and waltz) that permeate the piano cycle. The article emphasizes the idea that interest in such a genre of improvisational mix as «etude-fantasy» is found mainly in the legacy of virtuoso composers-pianists of the 19th-20th centuries, striving in their work to prolong romantic traditions.

Análise do gênero epístola bíblica à luz dos estudos linguísticos contemporâneos

ABSTRACT The article aims to examine the behavior of contemporary speech genre theory in the analysis of Pauline epistles. The genre of letters is conceived within its original communicative purpose, limited to sender and receivers, whereas the epistle refers to the letter read outside of its original context, considered as literature. The research corpus is composed of the Corinthian epistles of the New Testament, which are accepted as authored by the Apostle Paul. They are selected due to their shared audience, enabling a comparison of production context aspects in the apostle’s writings over time. Research findings include: letters that acquire new meanings, when transformed into epistles with a broader readership; the epistle genre, despite undergoing significant modifications, remains recognizable to present-day readers due to its macrostructure; the social role and communicative intent of the sender that result in alternating usage of formal and informal language, as well as variations in discourse person.

Жанрологія в національному мовознавстві: наукова школа Флорія Бацевича

The article summarizes the ideas of linguistic genreology in the context of the philological interpretation of the genre's nature. It is determined that the linguistic objectivity of its analysis is based on the ideas of communicative studies. In Ukrainian linguistics, they are systematically represented in the researches of the scientific school of F. Batsevych. The thesis is argued that his ideas that are related to the linguistic interpretation of the genre, its characteristics and communicative dominants, take into account, first of all, different forms and formats of intentions. The author's comment is given on their verbalization in dynamically changing variants as peculiar patterns of communicative situations, typed structure fixed by cultural tradition, as well as the fact that they acquire individual characteristics in the process of communication. It also defined that F. Batsevych emphasizes on the tactics of implementing of communicative strategies, which are interpreted as separate genres in micro-contexts. It is summarized that the research ideas of F. Batsevych in Ukrainian linguistics have developed into a consistent tradition, realized in the works of his colleagues. It allows us to talk about the formation and active functioning of an authoritative scientific school of linguistic genreology. It was determined that the concept of linguistic genreology, formed and systematically implemented by F. Batsevych in the author's texts and researches of his followers, generalizes the communicative dominants of the genre, which are based on extralinguistic parameters: social conditioning, typicality of the communicative situation, formal features, functionality, stability and variability. It is argued that F. Batsevych's linguistic ideas of genre analysis are meaningfully correlated with the objectivity of media genreology (in the context of functional parallelism with linguistic genreology). It was determined that its prospects lie in the implementation of methodological syncretism of the analysis of language in the dynamics of social communication and its functions in the media, in the emergence of invariant forms and methods of verbal mass interaction, in the motivated renewal of its stylistics and genre system. And this, in turn, determines the vectors that leadto the perspective of the ideas of neolinguistic research.

ЖАНР ФЕЛЬЕТОНА В ДОРЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫХ ЖУРНАЛАХ О ПРИРОДЕ И ОХОТЕ

The history of Russian hunting journalism dates back almost a century and a half. Different genres are represented in magazines of nature and hunting. The article examines the specifics of the genre of the feuilleton and the content of the polemic waged by pre-revolutionary magazines of nature and hunting in the genre of the feuilleton.The main topics of the feuilleton are the quality of nature and hunting magazines, dog breeding, organization of dog shows, the imitation of European hunting fashion. The study proves the importance of feuilletons for the development magazines of nature and hunting and improving its quality. Scientific methods were used to achieve the goal: the method of genre analysis, general scientific methods of observation, description, systematization.

Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics

Genre Analysis of Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics

Comparative Genre Analysis of Statement of Claim and Statement of Defence (Legal Genres)

Comparative Genre Analysis of Statement of Claim and Statement of Defence (Legal Genres)

The Effects of a Combination of Genre Analysis and Genre-Based Writing Teaching on Enhancement of Thai EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing Proficiency

The Effects of a Combination of Genre Analysis and Genre-Based Writing Teaching on Enhancement of Thai EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing Proficiency

ПРОБЛЕМА ДОСТОВЕРНОСТИ ЖАНРОВОГО ИСТОЧНИКА

This article is carried out in line with research on the problems of genre studies. The author tries to solve the problem of developing a method for describing the speech genre as a communicative unit of the ethical level. The relevance of the study is due to the unsatisfactory result of many years of attempts to develop a methodology for describing the genre that can identify the meaningful factors of a typical utterance as an object. As one of the solutions to the problem, it is proposed to put forward the theory of genre source studies with the development of a technology for modeling a genre source by introducing a formula of a communicative situation into the model of a typical utterance as a factor determining the reference of the genre.The novelty and significance of this work is due to the description of an original and potentially productive approach to determining the genre structures of an utterance through the construction of a genre source model through the prism of communicative components.

Linguistic Trends in Doctor-Patient Communication

Effective communication between doctors and patients is vital for successful consultations. Language plays a key role in making the communication between the doctor and the patient effective. Discourse studies that study language at its micro, as well as at its macro level, provide valuable insights into medical consultations. The objective of the present study is to provide an overview of various linguistic trends that emerged over time to examine talk in doctor-patient consultations. Studies examining doctor-patient discourse have been grouped under Interaction Analysis system, Rhetorical Genre Studies, Conversation analysis, sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Ethnography, and Systemic Functional Linguistics. It was observed that the linguistic trends that emerged in other contexts were rarely applied to Indian medical consultations. Therefore, there is a need to study Indian doctor-patient consultations using discourse frameworks to arrive at findings that may be used to promote effective communication between the participants.

Reading (in) law: A critical appraisal of the impact of language on disciplinary novices’ cognitive reading strategies

This article adopts a critical approach to literacy and genre analysis to explore the place for multilingualism at a South African historically white university's law faculty. Drawing on data from think-aloud protocols and semi-structured interviews, it seeks to gain insight into the following: the (meta)cognitive reading strategies used by first-year English additional language (EAL) students in reading the legal judgment; the impact of language on strategy use, and lastly, students' perceptions of the value of their home languages for mediating reading challenges as surfaced in the think-aloud protocols. Drawing on Tardy et al.’s (2020) theoretical framework for researching genre knowledge, the findings demonstrate how reading strategies are utilised differently for different purposes. Participants' uses of the strategies of ‘setting a context’ and ‘rereading’ illustrate how language intersects with home and school-based discourses and the impact thereof on reading.

Жанровые особенности антиутопического научно-фантастического романа Пьера Буля «Планета обезьян»: коммуникативный аспект

The enduring popularity of 20th century science fiction authors among readers of all age categories has been noted in numerous works of literary scholars. An extremely important aspect is the fact that the author and the reader must have a common language in order for communication to be effective. The relevance of the study is due to the growing interest in the problem of interpreting the genre of science fiction works. The aim of this study is to try to trace the synthesis of genre forms from the point of view of communicativism and the theories of C. Darwin and T. de Chardin in the novel "Planet of the Apes" by the famous French fiction writer Pierre Boulle. Darwin and T. de Chardin in the novel "Planet of the Apes" by the famous French fiction writer Pierre BoulleIn the course of the study, the methods of contextual literary analysis, cognitive-discourse analysis, as well as stylistic and genre analysis were applied. As a result of the study, the conclusions were obtained that the novel "Planet of the Apes" by P. Boulle combines elements of the genre of science fiction novel, philosophical parable, utopia and dystopia. The novel is a satirical work, touching upon the themes of scientific progress, communication, evolution and human society, which are topical at present. The author, when creating a work, follows literary conventions or deliberately goes against them, creating something innovative. The genre of science fiction has been and remains a synthetic genre, incorporating elements of various genres, which intricately intertwined, enter into communication with the reader, helping him to create fictional worlds. Scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that for the first time in Russia the study of genre originality of P. Boulle's work in the aspect of communication with the reader is undertaken. The article may be useful for literary scholars, postgraduates, students and all those interested in the problems of genre synthesis in modern science fiction.

UNCOVERING USA PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE GENRE

Presidential debate (PD) draws the most attention compared to other political discourses as the candidates present their profile and proposals using rhetorical communicative strategy to convince voter candidates and defeat their adversaries. However, the generic structure of PD is seldomly being the perspective of linguistics studies. The paper aims at scrutinizing the genre of USA Presidential debate using the genre analysis framework proposed by Swales and Bhatia. Thus, the study employs two parts of genre analysis: move, and strategies analysis. The present study finds that there are six moves of USA PD namely greetings-informing the debate format, introducing the topic, thesis, argumentation, and closure. The communicative purpose of the moves is persuading the American voters in the election day. The finding implies pivotal stages of PD to construct political discourse. This study is expected to contribute to EFL teaching and learning especially in teaching genre exposition integrated in four English skills.

A Narrative Analysis on Vlogs

The vlog has become an increasingly popular genre, being found most often on the YouTube platform. Starting from the premise that it has a narrative form, we randomly selected five texts that we segmented, following the discourse marks related to each sequence and we quantified the number related to each one. The next step is represented by noting the numbers in pie chart type graphs in order to see which is the predominant one. For a better visibility of the sequences, we opted for the use of different colors for each of them, colors that can also be found in the charts. Thus, starting from the theory of narrative genres (according to W. Labov and J. Waletzky) and the three-level analysis model developed by Sophie Moirand, we proposed a discursive analysis aimed at showing that vlogs fall into the category of narrative genres. We mention that this article does not pretend to present a complete analysis but it is the starting point of a larger one, with a relevant oral corpus, which will thoroughly debate the vlog category. Purpose: Analyzing vlogs from a narrative approach. Patients and methods: Sequential analysis Results: Narrative sequence is predominant Conclusion: Vlogs can be considered a narrative genre

Paradoxographical Descriptions of Caribbean Animals in Fray Ramón Pané's Relación acerca de las antiguëdades de los Indios

This essay investigates Fray Ramón Pané’s text from 1500 CE, Relación acerca de las antiguëdades de los Indios, within the literary context of the paradoxography. It examines cultural frameworks and general literary knowledge that would have been understood by Pané within the structures of Spanish and Hieronymite societies. This essay compares the framework and content of Pané’s work with the known paradoxographies of Aelian and Aristotle, focusing on the emphasis placed by Pané on transformation via linguistic translation/interpretation and mythological animal representation. Through my analysis of the original text, I outline Pané’s transliteration of Taino mythology and culture, emphasizing the significance of this New World text itself within the paradoxographical genre, a genre that had generally been in disuse long before Europeans arrived in the Caribbean. While I base my analysis in the study of genre, my general focus is the inclusion and importance of transformation and animal lore within Taino culture, and their transliteration into a little-used European genre by a little-known Spanish friar.

Discourse Structure Analysis of Making Request in Japanese Conversation

Making requests (irai) is a genre of spoken interaction that is taught from the basic level of learning Japanese as a foreign language. A request is one of the speech acts that may raise face-threatening potentials. Understanding the stages of request appropriate to Japanese culture is thus essential for Japanese learners to achieve successful conversation. Therefore, conversation pedagogy by using a discourse approach is essential. This study investigates a potential structure gap in Japanese making-requests conversations realized in actual settings and textbook conversational models. By employing genre theory and interpersonal discourse of “Negotiation” as a qualitative discourse analytic method from the Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective, this paper describes the gaps and some factors that potentially influence the structure of Japanese making-request conversation. Data were obtained from conversational texts in the Japanese language corpus named Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus and Japanese textbooks for elementary and middle adult learners. Regarding the structure, the results show no difference between conversations in textbooks and authentic ones at the stage level, but both differ at the phase level. There is no introduction to the problem, additional explanation, and confirmation phases in textbook conversational models. In addition, the absence of the phases, the differences in pre-condition content between textbook and authentic conversations, also the length of the reasoning phase, are assumed to be influenced by relational status between participants (tenor) as well as the imposition degree of the requested object.

Move Analysis of Awards Acceptance Speeches in The 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony

It has become a tradition that any musician who wins an award delivers a speech to acknowledge those who contributed to the award’s success. This has led to the emergence of Awards Acceptance Speeches (AASs). Despite the recent popularity of genre analysis on professional genres, AASs as a genre, have not been researched, especially in the Ghanaian context. To this end, this paper sought to examine the generic structure of the AASs of Ghanaian musicians in the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Ceremony. 20 AASs were sampled for the study. The study adopted Swales’ (1990) approach to move analysis, focusing on the generic structure. The analysis revealed that Thanking move was the most frequent. A 6 move-structure was identified. The study concluded with implications for successful acculturation of musicians and other entertainment industry players in their discourse communities and recommendations for further studies.