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Drew, Christopher. "Educational podcasts: A genre analysis." E-Learning and Digital Media 14, no. 4 (July 2017): 201–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2042753017736177.
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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.
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Bhatia, Vijay K. "Critical Genre Analysis: Theoretical Preliminaries." HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business 27, no. 54 (December 22, 2015): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v27i54.22944.
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<p>Genre theory has generally focused on the analysis of generic constructs with some attention to the contexts in which such genres are produced, interpreted, and used, often giving the impression as if producing and interpreting genres is an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. As a consequence, there has been very little attention paid to professional practice, which is the ultimate objective of these discursive activities. It is thus necessary to develop a more comprehensive and multiperspective genre analytical framework to analyze interdiscursive performance in professional practice. In this paper, I propose such a multiperspective critical genre analytical framework and attempt to discuss some of the key theoretical perspectives underlying critical genre theory.</p>
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Nikiforidou, Kiki. "Genre and constructional analysis." Pragmatics and Cognition 25, no. 3 (December 31, 2018): 543–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.18022.nik.
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Abstract Constructional approaches to genre model genre knowledge in terms of genre-based constructions. Like all constructions, these represent conventionalized pairings of meaning and form, of varying degrees of length and schematicity, whose pragmatic specifications include their association with a particular socio-cultural context. In this state-of-the-art article I review genre-related constructional work, discussing grammatical patterns that are licensed only in particular contexts, including conversational genres, as well as expressions that qualify as constructions simply on the basis of socio-cultural currency. The appropriateness of constructional analysis for the language of genre derives from the definitional incorporation of discourse-pragmatic information in constructional descriptions and the possibility of relating genre-bound, idiosyncratic patterns to the rest of the constructions in a language through relations of inheritance. I further highlight the compatibility of Frame Semantics with the notion of genre and critically discuss the concept of conventionality as it applies to genre language.
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Mehmonovna, Radjabova Nodira. "ALLA - AN ANCIENT MASTERPIECE OF SINGING ART (COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS)." CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF HISTORY 03, no. 01 (January 1, 2022): 34–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/history-crjh-03-01-08.
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This article examines the history of singing art with the birth of mankind, the influence of the song genre on the spiritual and moral state of peoples, the dynamics of the process of transferring singing art from generation to generation over the centuries. In addition, the genres of songs have a long history and have been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. The origins, stages of development and features of the song genre "Alla" are discussed. Many aspects are analyzed, such as the fact that the genre of Alla's singing is based on folklore, the uniqueness of this type of song, its narration in simple and understandable language. The article systematically describes the history of the song genre, its artistic features, philosophical and spiritual features. The stages of the genre of the song "Alla", the features of each stage, the role of children in the spiritual and aesthetic education of the cradle are scientifically substantiated. The text of the article summarizes the opinions of various experts in the field of the song genre "Alla". In conclusion, the article reveals the importance of the development of the song genre in the conditions of new thinking, the relationship between mother and child. Approaches to the question of the genre of the song differ, and it was analyzed that discussions on this issue continued both during the years of Soviet power and during the years of independence. It is shown that the height of a person's spirituality can be an important factor in raising a child at the level of the song genre that mothers sing, rocking the cradle at birth. It is revealed that in the genres of Alla songs it has become a tradition to pamper a child and compare him with powerful forces and historical figures. Alla song genre takes into account the influence of Asian and European natural factors. The importance of the mother's level, the pleasantness of the sound of the words used instead of them, and so on as the songs of God reach the baby in the cradle. At the end of the article, scientifically based recommendations are given for further popularization and improvement of the song genre.
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Montesi, Michela. "Genre analysis of bookmarked webpages." Online Information Review 34, no. 6 (November 30, 2010): 954–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684521011099423.
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PurposeA total of 17 user‐compiled collections of webpages, comprising 833 bookmarked links in terms of genre, are studied. The purpose of this paper is to find out whether users tend to bookmark certain web genres more than others. Genre theory helps to make sense of the different pages included in these collections, and to classify them, according to their communicative purpose and salient non‐topical features, into blogs, search interfaces, articles, tutorials.Design/methodology/approachA total of 17 participants took part in the research by providing their collections of bookmark links. They were also interviewed about the reasons for bookmarking and to comment on their collections. Relying on the interview results and on the previous literature, the bookmarks were classified into four super‐genres: main or access pages, transactional pages, navigational pages, and content pages.FindingsThe results of the classification into web genres revealed a clear tendency to bookmark main pages, such as homepages, which accounted for 42 per cent of all bookmarked web links. Moreover, some aspects of relevance were highlighted such as the connections to use, time, and context, as well as to the main web activity (browsing or searching).Originality/valuePreviously, bookmarks have mostly been studied as tools for information reuse, but very rarely as sources of implicit relevance feedback. In addition, from the point of view of genre theory, this research shows the importance of relating web genres to users' intentions behind queries.
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Sinulingga, Kinanthi N. V. M., and Satrya Wibawa. "GENRE ANALYSIS THE FILM GUNDALA." Capture : Jurnal Seni Media Rekam 14, no. 1 (December 1, 2022): 30–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.33153/capture.v14i1.3832.
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Gundala (2019) is the latest Indonesian action film that was commercially successful, won national and international awards, and even ranked second in viewership in 2019. This study aims to identify the genre characteristics of Gundala. This paper utilized Nick Lacey's genre analysis, which analyzes films based on the repertoire of elements (narratives, characters, settings, iconography, and styles). The research shows that Gundala adopted the action genre characteristics, especially in the narrative, character, and style. However, the setting and iconography of the film have been modified to fit the local cultural context. Hence, the distinctiveness of Indonesian films can expand similar studies in film genres.
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Tyukaeva, Nadezhda, and Konstantin Brinev. "Texts of Natural Written Speech as an Object of Genre Analysis: The Problem of Method." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 2 (June 2021): 99–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2021.2.9.
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The article defines the methodological problems of constructing a model of the speech genre and suggests the way of solving them. The existing models of Text – Text components – Genre type are recognized as the main tool for the study and description of speech genres. It is argued that the speech genre description methodology in modern linguistics should be focused on the ideas of systematic construction. The principles of text analysis in the aspect of speech genre studies are determined and some errors of scientifically employed approaches are identified. The elimination of these errors will allow genre studies to shift to a new methodological principle of constructing a genre model that has a diagnostic potential. The current problematic issues of genre studies are formulated. As a productive technology for describing a speech genre, we propose a universal method of functional modelling, which will enable designing genres and their modules on the basis of regularity, obligation, and oppositional character. In order to solve the problem of genre description in the attributive aspect, that is, to determine its units, it is productive to analyze the genre applying the so-called communicative semiotic model, as well as the method of transformational-and-oppositional analysis. The proposed principle of genre description is postulated as a method of objective modelling. Thus, within the framework of this study, the analysis of the theoretical problems of modern genre studies is carried out, the objectives of speech genres investigation are formulated and the approaches to their achieving are presented in an overview.
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Doody, Sara, and Natasha Artemeva. "“Everything Is in the Lab Book”: Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre Analysis of Symbolic Mediation in Medical Physics." Written Communication 39, no. 1 (November 4, 2021): 3–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07410883211051634.
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Writing and genre scholarship has become increasingly attuned to how various nontextual features of written genres contribute to the kinds of social actions that the genres perform and to the activities that they mediate. Even though scholars have proposed different ways to account for nontextual features of genres, such attempts often remain undertheorized. By bringing together Writing, Activity, and Genre Research, and Multimodal Interaction Analysis, the authors propose a conceptual framework for multimodal activity-based analysis of genres, or Multimodal Writing, Activity, and Genre (MWAG) analysis. Furthermore, by drawing on previous studies of the laboratory notebook (lab book) genre, the article discusses the rhetorical action the genre performs and its role in mediating knowledge construction activities in science. The authors provide an illustrative example of the MWAG analysis of an emergent scientist’s lab book and discuss its contributions to his increasing participation in medical physics. The study contributes to the development of a theoretically informed analytical framework for integrative multimodal and rhetorical genre analysis, while illustrating how the proposed framework can lead to the insights into the sociorhetorical roles multimodal genres play in mediating such activities as knowledge construction and disciplinary enculturation.
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Bhatia, Vijay K. "Genre analysis today." Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire 75, no. 3 (1997): 629–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/rbph.1997.4186.
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Devitt, Amy J. "Genre performances: John Swales' Genre Analysis and rhetorical-linguistic genre studies." Journal of English for Academic Purposes 19 (September 2015): 44–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2015.05.008.
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Parkinson, Jean. "The student laboratory report genre: A genre analysis." English for Specific Purposes 45 (January 2017): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2016.08.001.
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Quasthoff, Uta, Vivien Heller, and Miriam Morek. "On the sequential organization and genre-orientation of discourse units in interaction: An analytic framework." Discourse Studies 19, no. 1 (January 25, 2017): 84–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445616683596.
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The article deals with larger stretches of talk-in-interaction and argues in favor of a descriptive approach, which integrates the structural requirements of global organization, the special type of sequential orderliness within larger units as well as the genre-orientation of these units. Drawing on previous work in conversation analysis, discourse analysis and the sociological genre analysis, the article introduces GLOBE as an analytical tool which functionally links discourse units to conventionalized communicative purposes. GLOBE reconstructs the interactive achievement of genre-oriented discourse units in a three-branch analysis of jobs, devices and forms. The analytical potential of GLOBE is demonstrated in the exemplary genre-contrastive analysis of a narrative, an explanative and an argumentative excerpt. On the basis of the analyses of the three genres, the overarching constitution of genre-oriented global units is then explicated.
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Järlehed, Johan. "Genre and metacultural displays." Linguistic Landscape. An international journal 3, no. 3 (December 31, 2017): 286–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ll.17020.jar.
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Abstract This paper argues that studies of the LL could merit from a more detailed social semiotic examination of particular sign-genres. It describes genre as normative system open to change, on the one hand, and as complex historical and cultural configurations of semiotic resources and affordances, on the other. Based on illustrative analysis of how the discursive interaction of ‘pride’ and ‘profit’ is affecting Galician and Basque street-name signing, the paper makes the following points: (1) genre depends on discourse, and discourse depends on genre; (2) particular materializations of a genre actualize distinct resources and highlight different affordances; (3) detailed and contextualized analysis of determined sign genres can reveal ideological layering in the LL; (4) when a genre is taken ‘out of place’ or is recontextualized, its typical repertoire of resources is rearranged and new affordances emerge.
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Mabuan, Romualdo Atibagos. "A CONTRASTIVE RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF PHILIPPINE AND SRI LANKAN ENGLISH NEWS COMMENTARIES." Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 6, no. 2 (January 23, 2017): 330. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v6i2.4918.
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Newspaper commentaries constitute a part of media discourse, which is a significant area of inquiry in intercultural rhetoric analysis. Through conducting a contrastive textual analysis of newspaper commentaries culled from the English newspapers in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, this paper explored the notions of genre and micro-genre on the 2015 papal visit in the two countries. To set a tertium comparationisin examining the genre-newspaper commentaries on the papal visit, the timeframe was set during the two-week duration of the visit. To investigate the micro-genres employed by the writers, two sets of 15 newspaper commentaries on the visit respectively in the Philippines and Sri Lanka were selected and analyzed. Findings revealed that both Filipino and Sinhalese writers in English newspaper commentaries tended to employ the micro-genre of “media explanatory exposition” more often than other micro-genres, and in terms of rhetorical structures, both of these writers tended to show variation, dynamism, and individuality. Implications for ESL (English as a second language) and EFL (English as a foreign language) teaching are provided in the light of these findings.
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López-Arroyo, Belén, and Beatriz Méndez-Cendón. "Describing Phraseological Devices in Medical Abstracts: An English/Spanish Contrastive Analysis." Meta 52, no. 3 (November 21, 2007): 503–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/016735ar.
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Abstract Genre studies have been mainly focused on the rhetorical structure of research papers. However, genre theorists have not systematically studied either relationships among related genres or interlingual studies between genres. The present study aims at describing and comparing the rhetorical and phraseological structures of abstracts in English and Spanish in order to observe how information is rendered in the two languages under analysis. Our methodology is descriptively performed on a comparable corpus of abstracts in the field of diagnostic imaging and published in well-reputed journals. We will determine composition strategies by means of a semantic and functional approach so as to establish their similarities and differences in this genre. Our results will be primarily of help to translators, technical writers and ESP students to better understand some of the discourse aspects of rendering scientific information in both languages.
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Kumari, Neha. "Music Genre Classification for Indian Music Genres." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 8 (August 31, 2021): 1756–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.37669.
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Abstract: Due to the enormous expansion in the accessibility of music data, music genre classification has taken on new significance in recent years. In order to have better access to them, we need to correctly index them. Automatic music genre classification is essential when working with a large collection of music. For the majority of contemporary music genre classification methodologies, researchers have favoured machine learning techniques. In this study, we employed two datasets with different genres. A Deep Learning approach is utilised to train and classify the system. A convolution neural network is used for training and classification. In speech analysis, the most crucial task is to perform speech analysis is feature extraction. The Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) is utilised as the main audio feature extraction technique. By extracting the feature vector, the suggested method classifies music into several genres. Our findings suggest that our system has an 80% accuracy level, which will substantially improve on further training and facilitate music genre classification. Keywords: Music Genre Classification, CNN, KNN, Music information retrieval, feature extraction, spectrogram, GTZAN dataset, Indian music genre dataset.
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Flowers, Adam. "Reconsidering Qur'anic Genre." Journal of Qur'anic Studies 20, no. 2 (June 2018): 19–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2018.0336.
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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.
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Arsenault, Dominic. "Video Game Genre, Evolution and Innovation." Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture 3, no. 2 (October 26, 2009): 149–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/23.6003.
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This paper provides a critical overview of the notion of genre in game studies and in the video game industry. Using the concept of genre requires one to acknowledge the recent developments of genre theory in other fields of research; one such development is the contestation of the idea of generic evolution. After a comparative analysis, video game genres are found to differ from literary and film genres precisely on the basis of evolution. The technological imperatives that characterize video game production are also pinpointed as relevant to the establishment and development of video game genres. Evolution is linked to the processes of innovation, and so a model of innovation is laid out from a compare-and-contrast approach to literary and film genre innovation. This model is tested through the history and analysis of the First-Person Shooter genre. This results in new insights for the question of genre in video games, as it is established that genre is rooted not in game mechanics, but in game aesthetics; that is, play-experiences that share a phenomenological and pragmatic quality, regardless of their technical implementation.
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Asghar, Samina, Muhammad Mahmood, and Zobina Asghar. "A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Legal English." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 5 (June 21, 2018): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n5p215.
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The present study aims to investigate linguistic variation among genres of Pakistani Legal English by applying multidimensional analysis. In a legal context, language performs different functions. This results in a variety of textual categories on the basis of purpose of communication and linguistic properties. In order to recognize the linguistic properties of any individual genre, a comparative study of genre categories is essential. The study has been conducted on the sample of eight Pakistani Legal genres based on around two million words. Data have been analyzed by applying Biber’s (1988) model of Multidimensional analysis. Findings reveal variation in linguistic patterns. All categories have been found significantly different along each dimension. It indicates that legal language is not a homogeneous phenomenon. It has a variety of linguistic features associated with different legal genres, so it must be viewed in terms of goal, purpose, audience and context (variable which affect the language choice).
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Z.K., Orazimbetova, and Mukhiyatdinova T. "LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER TEXT." CURRENT RESEARCH JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGICAL SCIENCES 02, no. 10 (October 1, 2021): 82–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.37547/philological-crjps-02-10-16.
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Johan, Andrian Nuriza, Gunawan Panji Krismono, and Juita Triana. "A Genre Analysis of the Texts in English Textbook “Pathway To English” Used by Tenth Grade Students." English Education and Literature Journal (E-Jou) 2, no. 01 (January 29, 2022): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.53863/ejou.v2i01.375.
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This study aims to find out the text genres, the generic structure and language features in English textbook Pathway to English used by tenth grade students. This study analyzed the genre of the text, generic structure, and language features. A descriptive qualitative method is used to analyze the genre in Pathway to English textbook. There were four genres found in collecting data, descriptive text, narrative text, recount text, and announcement text. Then the researcher analyzing the generic structure and language features used in the text. After analyzing the data, the researcher found that from 18 texts taken, 4 texts (22%) data were descriptive text, 5 texts (28%) data were narrative text, 5 texts (28%) data were recount text, and 4 texts (22%) data belonged to announcement text. Based on the theories, the generic structure and the language features of each genre found in Pathway to English textbook were correct in English. Keywords: genre, text, textbook
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Wnuk, Agnieszka. "On the necessity of comparative analysis in genre studies." Tekstualia 4, no. 31 (April 1, 2012): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.4651.
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The article discusses the problems of genre problems presented in the light of modern comparative studies. On the example of romanticism and its popular genres, such as verse tale, digressive poem, romantic drama and a variety of odd types of poetic works, it has been demonstrated that comparative analysis can be very useful in describing the formal aspect of literary works and the interaction between genres.
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Wnuk, Agnieszka. "On the Necessity of Comparative Analysis in Genre Studies." Tekstualia 1, no. 1 (January 2, 2013): 71–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0013.6130.
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The article discusses the problems of genre problems presented in the light of modern comparative studies. On the example of romanticism and its popular genres, such as verse tale, digressive poem, romantic drama and a variety of odd types of poetic works, it has been demonstrated that comparative analysis can be very useful in describing the formal aspect of literary works and the interaction between genres.
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Tyukaeva, Nadezhda. "Principles of System Modeling of the Genre (Exemplified by Texts of Natural Written Speech)." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 2. Jazykoznanije, no. 2 (May 2022): 171–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2022.2.14.
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The article determines the problems of modern speech genre modeling and proposes a method for solving them. The methodology for describing the speech genre in modern linguistics needs to work out principles that are focused on system design. In genre modeling, at the present stage, the main tendency towards the so-called "portraiture" (passportization) has formed. The logical result was the accumulation of many essay works, which introduce diverse descriptions of individual genres without revealing their system characteristics. As a productive technology for speech genre description, a universal methodology of functional modeling is being developed. It allows constructing the genres with the parameters of regularity, commitment and oppositional character. Considering the genre model as a complex structure, the author describes its constituting modules in their syntagmatic interaction. The hypothesis of formal transformational modeling is put forward: an oppositional change in the typical structure of a module entails de-structuring, and decay of the speech genre. The article describes some stages in the formal transformational modeling of a genre module. In order to identify the attributive content of the genre, an analysis according to the so-called communicative-semiotic model was chosen as a productive method. A methodology of transformational opposition analysis is being developed. It arises from the idea of combinatorial and contrastive functions attribution to the author's modules of the genre. Substitutional analysis is performed by correlating the selected module of the genre with the same module of another genre in order to identify differentiation between them. The proposed principle of describing the genre is postulated as a method of objective modeling.
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Zhilyakov, Sergey V. "Poetics of the epitaph “On the Death of Alexander Druzhinin, January 19, 1864ˮ by Afanasy Fet: genre attributes." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 27, no. 2 (June 28, 2021): 110–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-2-110-116.
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The article examines the poetics of an epitaph “On the Death...ˮ on the example of the work of the same name proposed for analysis by the poem “On the Death of Alexander Druzhinin, January 19, 1864ˮ by Afanasy Fet. The purpose of the analysis is to determine the genre of the poem, which still remains unclear. The novelty of the author's approach is due to the fact that the discovery through analysis of such genre-forming attributes as genesis dating back to the epicedium (a kind of mourning elegy), genre “concept of personality”, burial portrait, the characteristic principle of figurative visualisation, dating of writing, that allows us to reveal the independent genre status of the poem. It is the genetic heredity of the epicidium, around which other considered genre attributes are concentrated, that helps to define the poem “On the Death...ˮ as a special genre form associated with mortal and memorial genres – the epitaph and the poem “In Memoriam...ˮ. Since the set of genre attributes, the composition of which may vary depending on the object of research, is ideally modelling in nature, the method of its application can be used in the future when studying both the genre poem “In Memoriam...ˮ and other lyric genres.
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Dubrovskaya, Tatiana V. "Multimodal аnalysis in genre studies: Semiotics of the tourist booklet." International Journal “Speech Genres” 17, no. 4 (36) (November 23, 2022): 250–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2022-17-4-36-250-261.
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The paper discusses the complex genre of tourist booklet as a fixed type of multimodal text that serves in a communicative situation of promoting a tourist product. This genre is a semiotically complex phenomenon, which conveys information through different semiotic systems. The methodological issues are posed as to a perspective model of genre analysis that would take into account the multimodal nature of genres. The author points to major hindrances that an analyst faces when doing multimodal analysis. The study focuses on discovering mechanisms of the interplay between verbal and visual components on semantic and formal levels, as well as showing how the elements of multimodal analysis can be targeted at various genre parameters. The booklets (85 items) for the study were collected in 2007–2019 in Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Russia and other countries. Methodologically, the paper draws on speech genre theory, semiotics, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal analysis. The claims are advanced that the tourist booklet has both obligatory and optional features, the visual component being obligatory. It is revealed that the colours of visuals can have factual and modal meanings embedded in them; photos convey precedent meanings; while using different semiotic codes, visual and verbal elements join the convergence relations and, thus, provide for genre coherence. The complex genre includes intertextual links between genres in its structure. These links may be of cross-code nature, since they are established between the elements of different semiotic systems, verbal and non-verbal. The conclusion is drawn that a consistent analytical model for multimodal genres has to be designed.
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Sulaimanov, Mukhamed-Ali Usmanovich. "Genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition of Shakir Selim’s literary work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife”." Филология: научные исследования, no. 6 (June 2021): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2454-0749.2021.6.35863.
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The relevance of this article is substantiated by scantiness of research dedicated to genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition in Crimean Tatar literature as a whole and on the example of Shakir Selim’s work “About Shamil Alyadin, Charyks and the Pocket Knife” in particular. The subject of this study is the genre analysis of the text in the context of structure and composition on the example of the indicated literary work. The goal consists in the analysis of relations between various literary-publicistic genres in the context of structure and composition of the text, rather than in the attempt to determine any specific genre and its characteristics in the literary work. The author concludes on the “ambivalent” hybrid genre form of truly emotional evocative essay with a pronounced expressiveness and literary-criticism article, and strong logical methodology. The text also contains the latent genre forms of monologue, distance dialogue, or discussion. The author begins if not a direct then reflexive dialogue with the heroes and the audience. The synthesis and interaction of different genres forms the uniqueness of the literary work, drawing attention of the reader to the ethics of literary art. The unifying genre of the work is spiritual-intellectual prose. The analysis of structural and compositional peculiarities of the literary work revealed the important, although not absolute, criteria for establishing interrelation between cognate genres, which in turn allowed identifying the main and auxiliary genre forms of the studied text.
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Lim, Ni-Eng, and Huaqing Hong. "Intensifiers as stance markers." Chinese Language and Discourse 3, no. 2 (December 14, 2012): 129–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cld.3.2.01lim.
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While the study of Mandarin Chinese intensifiers has been prolific, the methodologies used have been limited to comparative and grammaticalization studies, revealing little about the discourse-pragmatic usages of individual intensifiers. Utilizing a balanced corpus composed of 15 different prototypical genres, the associative strength of 12 commonly used intensifiers in each genre was statistically determined based on their frequency distribution. The results reveal a clear preference pattern of intensifiers across a range of “written” and “spoken”-based genres. Upon the premise that the genre preferences of intensifiers stem from matching dimensions of communicative intent/discourse context between genre and intensifier, genre-analysis was conducted to unveil the core “stances” each intensifier might possibly project. In conclusion, it is argued that genre-analysis based on empirical corpus data provides a valid alternative means to uncover seemingly “covert” aspects of language use.
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Carliner, Saul, and Timothy Boswood. "Genre." Information Design Journal 12, no. 2 (November 19, 2004): 124–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/idjdd.12.2.05car.
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This paper presents a case for a genre-based approach to research into online communication. Questions about the appropriateness and extensiveness of research-based guidelines for communicating online exist. These questions include the appropriateness of transferring guidelines from research on print communication online without first re-verifying them, the appropriateness of generalizing conclusions from context-based, small sample-sized usabilty studies, the extent of generalizability of empirical studies, and the limited scope of guidelines that focus almost exclusively on physical features of text. Genre – ‘a familiar pattern, a way of organizing information that has become so common that readers will probably recognize each new instance as belonging to the genre’ (Price & Price, 2002:272) – provides an alternative, contextually-based approach. It is a useful context because most online communication occurs within the confines of a specific genre and, as genres become more common, users develop expectations about the type of content presented and the format of its presentation. Three methods can help researchers understand the nature of online genres: (1) discourse analysis helps researchers identify the features of a genre, (2) usability studies help researchers assess whether the features promote effective user performance (and, if so, how), and (3) design team research identifies why features were included and which other alternatives were considered, rejected, and why. An effective study of genre uses all three. Focusing on genre, too, allows researchers within sub-disciplines of communication to focus their work on their areas of specialty.
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Flowerdew, John. "Action, content and identity in applied genre analysis for ESP." Language Teaching 44, no. 4 (December 6, 2010): 516–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026144481000042x.
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Genres are staged, structured, communicative events, motivated by various communicative purposes, and performed by members of specific discourse communities (Swales 1990; Bhatia 1993, 2004; Berkenkotter & Huckin 1995). Since its inception, with the two seminal works on the topic by Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993), genre analysis has taken pride of place in much of the ongoing research in languages for specific purposes (LSP). The goal of much of this research is pedagogic, the understanding being that good genre descriptions can feed into pedagogy in the form of syllabus and materials design. Whereas genre analysis usually focuses on language as action, this paper argues that analysis needs to focus also on content and identity. The discussion sketches out what this might mean in terms of pedagogic application.
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Aslamiah, Suaibatul. "READING GENRE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH." Al Qalam: Jurnal Ilmiah Keagamaan dan Kemasyarakatan 15, no. 1 (February 3, 2021): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35931/aq.v15i1.462.
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Genre is a type or a kind of reading text commonly found in writing. Reading text is one of the four skills that students must master in English. The various types of the text that students learn can help them to improve their skill. Such as narrative, recount, descriptive text and so on. A part from that, the teacher must be able to choose and analyze the right text so that can help the students develop reading and writing skills. The stages in analyzing text are as follows: register analysis, grammatical rhetorical analysis, interactional analysis and genre analysis. The approach used to teach the genre is an approach emphasizing understanding the text production such as grammar, objectives and language features. The characteristic in the genre based approach are language learning as social activity, explicit teaching and apprenticeship teaching. The pedagogical approaches to teach genre are multiple pedagogical approaches to genre, implicit genre pedagogies, explicit genre pedagogies, and interactive genre pedagogies. Besides that, we can use implicit and explicit method approaches in developing genres. Moreover, the benefits from reading genre analysis are the students can understand the content of the text as a whole, both in term of grammar, factions and so on.
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Bonini, Adair. "Critical genre analysis and professional practice: the case of public contests to select professors for Brazilian public universities." Linguagem em (Dis)curso 10, no. 3 (December 2010): 485–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1518-76322010000300004.
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Several approaches have been applied to the analysis of language at work, among them, the ergologic (LACOSTE, 1998; NOUROUDINE, 2002), the interactional-sociolinguistic (DREW, HERITAGE, 1992), and the genre-based (BAZERMAN; PARADIS, 1991). In this article, focusing on the latter approach, I discuss the reasons and methods for analyzing professional genres. Particularly, I center my attention on the approach which, more recently, has been called critical genre analysis (BHATIA, 2004, 2007, 2009; MOTTA-ROTH, 2008). As part of the theoretical reflection undertaken, I also present an introductory analysis of genres involved in the social practice of public contests for professor positions at Brazilian universities. These examinations not only exemplify a kind of problematic relation between language and work, but they constitute an excellent example to illustrate a Critical Genre Analysis (CGA).
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Jarc, Mojca. "Multilingual Genre Practices in International Relations." Journal for Foreign Languages 12, no. 1 (December 28, 2020): 241–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/vestnik.12.241-260.
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Globalisation has produced not only denser, but also linguistically more complex communication networks. Multilingual practices have transformed the academic and professional lives of language learners, and imposed new requirements on LSP teaching. This article foregrounds genres in multilingual globalised contexts. Genres have been recognised as one of the key focuses of LSP. Although previous research highlighted the importance of developing relevant field-specific genre practices, little attention has been paid to the nature of genre repertoires in the field of International Relations (IR). We report on the findings of a qualitative study into genre practices of the IR community. We set out to examine the typical genres of IR in academic and in professional settings. We focus on the languages in which these genres are enacted, and on the transformation of genre practices that occurs as a result of the community members’ trajectories through different academic and professional or institutional contexts. The analysis of genre collections and of the data collected through semi-structured interviews with IR students, professors, and graduates, reveals the rich, diverse, and asymmetrical patterns of genre use in three languages: French, Slovene, and English. The study suggests that the informants’ disciplinary communication has changed considerably over the past twenty years, and that the changes in the genre ecologies require new approaches to teaching about genres. Based on the findings of the study, the paper discusses the challenges of multilingual realities for LSP teachers and genre analysts.
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Dementyev, Vadim V. "About “genres of speech and language of speech” again: what has linguistics given to genre studies?" International Journal “Speech Genres” 17, no. 1 (February 21, 2022): 6–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2022-17-1-33-6-20.
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This is the second article in a cycle on the connection between genre studies and linguistics. The previous article discussed the question “What have genre studies given to linguistics?” This article focuses on linguistic methods used in speech genres theory: more traditional for linguistics, starting with the descriptive method and its later varieties – structural – and less traditional (component analysis, the method of immediate constituents, the generative method, the method of describing external and deep content structures, the method of semantic fields). Speech genres theory is studied in relation to linguistic paradigms. The most significant for speech genres theory is the turn in linguistics from the study of the language only to the study of speech (discourse), and thus – the recognition of the presence of a specific systematic nature of speech. Besides, speech genres theory is analyzed in connection with traditional linguistic directions: syntactic theory and methodology are used in the study of the composition of speech genres, lexicology and semantics – in the study of the names of speech genres. The major focus is on the modern period when new areas of linguistics and speech genres theory emerge simultaneously (Internet linguistics and Internet genre studies). The article also discusses division of linguistic disciplines in connection both with the speech genre division of language (structural, diachronic, functional) and with the division of genre studies (structure of the speech genres, classification of speech genres, sociology of speech genres, psychology of speech genres and genre thinking, cognitive and culturological aspects of speech genres). The role of speech genres theory in the division of linguistic disciplines into deductive and inductive is also discussed. The article appreciates the role of several outstanding linguists in the development of speech genres theory. In addition, the author briefly touches upon the connection between genre studies and literary studies: in the study of literary texts and genres they converge.
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Laba, I. Nengah, and Putu Chrisma Dewi. "An Analysis Of Applied Linguistics Used In Touristic Genres." International Journal of Linguistics and Discourse Analytics (ijolida) 3, no. 1 (October 2, 2021): 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.52232/ijolida.v3i1.54.
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Touristic genre is a specific type of texts used in tourism field. This paper examines applied linguistics used in touristic genres. This research is a qualitative exploratory study with documentation studies carried out through observation and the support of secondary data from relevant sources, including previous related research results. Touristic genres made available to help facilitate a more substantial and extended information for tourists to explore. Tourists might be attracted to visit after having exposed with fascinating touristic genres, e.g. amazing staycation, fusion dishes, shopaholics delight and spellbinding ambiance which display on the websites and tourism brochure. Tourists believe that they are becoming global communicators and acquiring a global linguistic repertoire of tourism. The real value in pointing to grammatical and phonetic characteristics such as those linguistic features used in tourism industry does not lie in their linguistic significance, but rather in their perceived as more functional touristic genres. In the context of a touristic genre, linguistic features are stylized, re-contextualized and commodified in accordance with the applicable functionality rather than theoretically explored
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Nguyen, Tam. "Promoting Students’ Reviewing Skills in Foreign Language Writing through Genre-Based Activities in Linguistic Classes." Journal of Foreign Language Teaching and Learning 7, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 300–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/ftl.v7i2.15231.
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Recently, genre studies contribute not only to linguistic areas but also to the areas of language education. In language teaching and learning, developing learners’ awareness of various genres, especially those prevail in their future job contexts, is essential in the sense that learners could be better prepared to successfully produce texts of the same genres when required. In this study, genre-based activities (GBAs) were introduced to 40 third-year EFL students in two linguistic classes. The data collection was conducted via class interaction, assignment analysis and informal talks. The data analysis revealed that, despite some limitations in the intervention, GBAs had such positive effects on students’ development of reviewing skills in English writing as: students could link their text evaluation and revision to the contextual features, they tried to read extensively about the features of different genres, and accordingly, they could enhance their genre awareness, resulting in their better evaluation and revision of texts. However, it was found that unfamiliar genres might hinder the effects of GBAs. Texts elicited from students and multimodal texts were more appropriate inputs for novice genre analysts.
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BLIN, Raoul. "Automatic Addition of Genre Information in a Japanese Dictionary." Acta Linguistica Asiatica 2, no. 2 (October 23, 2012): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ala.2.2.83-96.
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This article presents the method used for the automatic addition of genre information to the Japanese entries in a Japanese-French dictionary. The dictionary is intended for a wide audience, ranging from learners of Japanese as a second language to researchers. The genre characterization is based on the statistical analysis of corpora representing different genres. We will discuss the selection of genres and corpora, the tool and method of analysis, the difficulties encountered during this analysis and their solutions.
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GHAFIL, MOHHAMED. "The Application of Appraisal Theory in Rendering Shared SportTerminologiesin Political Genres from English into Arabic." Journal Ishraqat Tanmawya 26 (June 2021): 1–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.51424/ishq.27.27.
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Languages are butter and bread of communication among people. Studying languages and their genres are worth researching to know their roots, points of similarities, differences and shared constructions.The current paper is concerned with the role of the written translator in translating the shared terms and constructions of sport genre in political genre of English language into Arabic.I selected ten different examples taken from six sub-genres of Sport genre: (Baseball, Basketball, Football, Boxing, Ice Hockey and Running) whose functions are shared with the political genres. Besides, I chose ten graduate translators to translate the samples given to them so as to analyze their translations. The hypothesis of the current paper is as follows: it is expected that translators' success are lower in comparison with the rate of failure with reference tothe translation of shared terms and construction of sport genre in اشـراقـات تنمــوية ... مجـلة صلــمية محكــمة ... العــدد السابع والـعـشـــرون 2 political genre of English language into Arabic successfully.The researcher adopted an eclectic model of translation analysis based on Foreignization and Domestication combined by Appraisal theory. The results verified the hypothesis because the rate of success is lower than the rate of failure. Keywords: Written Translation, Sport Genre, Political Genre
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Xiao, Liang, and Liming Deng. "Generic Variation & Private Intention: A Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Book Reviews and Prefaces." Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics 41, no. 1 (March 26, 2018): 47–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cjal-2018-0003.
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AbstractBased on Bhatia’s multi-dimensional analytical framework for discourse analysis, we explore key issues involved in genres construction such as private intention, manipulation of generic value and interdiscursive strategies. Two prefaces and two book reviews by expert linguists were collected and analyzed at great length from both text-internal and text-external perspectives. Meanwhile, four professionals from relevant disciplines were interviewed for their insights into the issues investigated. Through examining textual features, covert interdiscursivity and narrative accounts of the professional writers, the following findings are generated. 1) Generic variation occurs within and between the two genres due to expert writers’ intentional manipulation of generic value. 2) Interdiscursive strategies like “genre embedding”, “genre bending” and “genre mixing” are exploited by expert writers to achieve their particular private intention. Specifically, preface genre can be presented, to some extent, as a research article mixed with some promotional flavor, and features of research article genre, promotional genre and introductory genre are found mixed in the review genre. 3) Representations of the preface and book review genres such as linguistic feature, move structure and interdiscursivity are ultimately affected by generic value, authors’ private intention, professional practice and disciplinary culture. The findings have important implications for ESP/EAP writing practitioners and learners.
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Morton, Janne. "Constructing knowledge and identity in a professionally-oriented discipline." Genre and Disciplinarity 41, no. 2 (December 31, 2018): 185–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.00009.mor.
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AbstractCentral to rhetorical genre theory is the notion of ‘rhetorical situation’ (Bitzer, 1968), which emphasizes context as sociohistorically situated. In the analysis of academic genres, this notion helps us to think of the contexts that genres respond to as dynamic, varying across time and space, rather than as stable and unified disciplinary discourse communities. From this social perspective, academic disciplines are theorized as including a great number and range of rhetorical situations (Paré, 2014), and the idea of genre variation becomes of increasing scholarly interest. In this study, rhetorical genre theory and the concept of ‘rhetorical situation’ provide a framing for the analysis of a recurrent discursive event. The event is the design studio ‘crit’, a weekly presentation and review of students’ in-progress design ideas and artifacts, through which the teaching and learning of architectural design is enacted in the academy. In a professionally-oriented discipline such as architecture, curriculum genres often need to negotiate tensions between the academy and the profession. Applied to such settings, a rhetorical genre approach invites us to think about whose values and knowledge dominate, and who has the authority to adapt the genre to suit its changing needs. This paper reports on interviews with five design teachers (one senior academic and four professional practitioners). The interviews reveal how the teachers take up the crit genre in diverse ways, including what counts as knowledge and competence in the design studio and how this knowledge is best taught, learnt and assessed. The paper concludes that students would benefit from a genre pedagogy that focuses on genre variation, its sources and its consequences, as well as genre conventionality.
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Gordon, T. A. "Wartime songs: An attempt at genre analysis." Voprosy literatury, no. 5 (October 30, 2022): 13–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31425/0042-8795-2022-5-13-36.
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The article analyses Bakhtin’s theory of artistic text, using the example of mid-20th-c. Russian military songs (‘Granada’ [‘Grenada’], ‘Little Eagle’ [‘Orlyonok’], ‘Far Away, Across the River’ [‘Tam vdali, za rekoy’], ‘The Sacred War’ [‘Svyashchennaya voyna’], ‘Dark Is the Night’ [‘Tyomnaya noch’], etc). Focusing on Bakhtin’s idea that an artistic word recalls and reestablishes archaic genres, the researcher examines if a similar tendency can be traced in military song lyrics. A genre analysis shows that the lyrics tend to resurrect the seemingly forgotten archaic techniques of epic distance, epic monism, and syncretism. Russian wartime songs draw on and reinvent the genre features of biblical poetry, classical epics, and Byzantine rhetoric. Which element is responsible for this revival of the archaic? Upon examination of Bakhtin’s key theses, the author finds that Bakhtin’s concept of ‘great time’ is language. The poetics of military songs conforms to the ideas proposed by Bakhtin that an artistic text revives the archaic as a result of a subconscious language instinct.
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Dergach, Dmytro. "Language intellectualization in new media: evolution of genre paradigm." Current issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice, no. 44 (2022): 48–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/apultp.2022.44.48-67.
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The article verbalizes author's position, concerning the intellectualization of genre system of media communication (as a result of communication forms' changes in modern society) and determines the criteria for its professional analysis. These are linguistic, functional and stylistic, linguocultural and sociolinguistic dimensions of evolution of forms of social communication in mass-media sphere. The research focuses on the non-specific communicative principles of the dynamics of genres in traditional and new media, that, according to extra- and intralinguistic factors, provide different ways of fulfilling the tasks of communicative situation. The paper states actual nowadays medialinguistic aspectology for research of media genres in projection on language functions, realized in communicatively changing mass-media context, associated with psychological time and space of culture. Particular attention is paid to the dynamics of functional markers in genre paradigm of media space through the language and cognitive integration of new / traditional genres (post, comment, stories, giveaway, etc.), that in their functional combination form a macrotext, relevant for media communication nowadays. The author also touches upon discussion issues of modern communicative linguistics and media genre theory, that outline the prospects for further investigations in this scientific field: accuracy of nomination and status of certain genres, relevance / irrelevance of traditional for stylistics of the 2nd half of the 20th century genre factors – according to the modern genres of media communication, the diffuse nature of the intellectualization of mass media genre system, connected with appropriate / inappropriate differentiation of such categories, as hyper-genre, sub-genre, genre variety unit, etc.
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Wang, Guifang. "Genre-Based Approach in Business Translation Teaching." Review of Educational Theory 4, no. 2 (May 13, 2021): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.30564/ret.v4i2.3019.
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Genre-based teaching approach is a pedagogy based on genre and genre analysis theory. Based on this teaching approach, the paper puts forward a three-stage model appropriate for the teaching of business English reading. It develops teaching activities focusing on the schematic structure of a discourse. Its purpose is to make students know that the discourses with different genres have different communicative purposes and discourse structures. Through a theoretical analysis and empirical study of the model, it is concluded that genre-based teaching approach can effectively help students improve their ability of business English reading comprehension.
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Zhou, Sijing. "‘Advertorials’: A genre-based analysis of an emerging hybridized genre." Discourse & Communication 6, no. 3 (August 2012): 323–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481312446265.
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Hajibayova, Lala. "Blog, news, ecommerce: Does genre matter for taggers?" NASKO 4, no. 1 (October 31, 2013): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.7152/nasko.v4i1.14648.
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This study presents an analysis of over 7000 tags assigned to 36 online resources. Analysis of the genre tags revealed that users’ preferences in assigning tags emerged from the context of the resource. Study revealed significant variance in tagging vocabulary across four content categories and three resource genres. Based on Bakhtin’s genre theory (1986), this study suggests that utilization of genre should be grounded on language, in particular, on its meaning it carries to a particular group of individuals.
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Wegner, Diana L., and Stephanie Lawless. "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls National Inquiry:." Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 31 (February 18, 2021): 1–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.31468/dw/r.835.
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In this paper we present a rhetorical genre analysis of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) National Inquiry. We focus on the concepts of meta-genre and genre hybridity in the context of social change to explore the dynamics of the MMIWG Inquiry as an instantiation of the “truth commission” (TC). Following Giltrow (2002), we treat meta-genre as advice and criticism from genre participants about how a genre should be performed. We apply Gready’s analysis (2011) of the TC as a hybrid genre that has emerged in the context of transitional justice and post-modern governance: the hybrid incorporates three sub-genres: the state (public/national) inquiry, the human rights report, and the official history (rewritten and archived). Our goals are to examine what the concepts of meta-genre and genre hybridity offer to help explain the difficulties of national inquiries/truth commissions in general, and specifically to help illuminate the problematics of the MMIWG Inquiry. Our qualitative analysis focuses on public and media metageneric commentary on the MMIWG Inquiry, including the Commissioners’ responses, in both mainstream traditional media and social media. Our findings show that meta-generic commentary on the MMIWG Inquiry falls into five main categories or themes, each deriving from stakeholders’ expectations raised by the tributary genres. By far, the most dominant theme is criticism of the Inquiry for its recolonizing legal framework: the ideology of colonialism that inhabits the TC’s state inquiry tributary genre is the object of significant meta-generic criticism. The other four recurrent themes are the perception that the Inquiry should be a criminal investigation, criticism of the Inquiry for its restriction to an “advisory” role only, calls for the inquiry to have a human rights framework, and the expectation that the inquiry is to facilitate meaningful reconciliation. We suggest that, as a recurring and constitutive feature of genre, and, as an arena of negotiation over how genre is to be performed, meta-genre can function as a kind of oversight and challenge that, as an index of social change, inhabits genre as a response to its own inertia. We also suggest that the TC genre creates genre confusion through its conflation of the widely divergent and broad exigences of its tributary genres. We conclude that, at the time of this writing, stakeholders’ diverse expectations, the TC’s problematic hybridity, and the MMIWG Inquiry’s colonizing, statist, legal framework constrain the impetus for change, rendering the Inquiry “truth-lite” (Gready, p. 50) and low impact, and affording only “thin reconciliation”.
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Engberg, Jan, and Ismael Arinas Pellón. "The Secret to Legal Foretelling: Generic and Inter-Generic Aspects of Vagueness in Contracts, Patents and Regulations." International Journal of English Studies 11, no. 1 (June 1, 2011): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2011/1/137101.
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In this genre analysis research paper, we compare U.S. patents, contracts, and regulations on technical matters with a focus upon the relation between vagueness and communicative purposes and subpurposes of these three genres. Our main interest is the investigation of intergeneric conventions across the three genres, based on the software analysis of three corpora (one for each genre, 1 million words per corpus). The result of the investigation is that intergeneric conventions are found at the level of types of expressed linguistic vagueness, but that intergeneric conventions at the level of actual formulations are rare. The conclusion is that at this latter level the influence from the situation type underlying the individual genre is more important than the overarching legal character of the genres, when we talk about introducing explicit vagueness in the text.
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Gavrilova, Liana A. "«BOBOK» BY F. M. DOSTOEVSKY: TO THE PROBLEM OF THE GENRE." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 23, no. 4 (2020): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2020-4-23-16-24.
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Тhe article raises the problem of the genre of the work of F. M. Dostoevsky «Bobok», actualized by M. M. Bakhtin, but still of scientific interest. The purpose of the article is to clarify the understanding of the genre of the «Bobok» work existing in literary criticism. The objectives of the research are related to the identification in the «Bobok» story of the signs of the genres of vision and anecdote and the definition of their role in the formation of the genre specificity of the work and its semantic organization. The article uses an integrated approach to the analysis of the «Bobok» story, including the philological and structural analysis of the text. As a result of the study, the conclusion is drawn: the consideration of the «cemetery history» in the «Bobok» story from the standpoint of the medieval genre of vision – more precisely, the vision-test as a variety of the genre of vision – and the anecdote characteristic of the cultural tradition of the time of F. M. Dostoevsky and his work the structural and synthetic nature of the genre of this work. The vision and anecdote are inserted genres in the «Bobok» story reinforcing its versatility. The vision and the anecdote interact with each other. The appeal to these genres allows F. M. Dostoevsky to combine in his story the traditions of Christian literature of the past, folklore and the literary tradition of the present. The presence of the genres of vision and anecdote in the «Bobok» story allows us to define the positions of the author of the story and his hero: the genre of vision accentuates the position of the author, who creates a situation of spiritual and moral test for the hero; the genre of the joke accentuates the position of the hero, who demonstrates his inner ideological, spiritual and moral paradox. The synthesis of genres within the framework of one literary work forms a complex, multi-focus, optics of seeing the world and man.
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Anisimova, Anna T. "Student comments on a professor’s rating as an evaluating speech genre in Russian and American educational discourse." International Journal “Speech Genres” 30, no. 2 (May 25, 2021): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2021-2-30-109-117.
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This article focuses on the speech genre “student comments on a professor’s rating” which belongs to the domain of quality assurance in higher education. Both aspects are meaningful for the theory of speech genres and the system of higher education. The article analyses the communicative concept “student feedback on teaching” which is related to the speech genre under research. The article also deals with description and comparative analysis of speech genre features of axiological texts which belong to the domain of the “quality of education” in Russian and American linguistic cultures. Apart from this, the article attempts to classify the speech genre forms of students comments on teaching. On the basis of the comparative analysis of the speech genre “student feedback on teaching” in Russian and American education discourse there have been deduced several common and national specific language features and phenomena. The evaluating communicative concept “student feedback on teaching” comprises not only emotional evaluating attitude of the author but also a structural semiotic paradigm of the teaching evaluation. The American concept demonstrates higher semiotic density. The comparative analysis of verbal implementation of the concept in the Russian and American student feedback comments allows to conclude that the corresponding speech genre in American culture looks like an established speech practice, while into Russian culture this genre has been borrowed and is still being formed.
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Kurkan, Nataliya V. "A model of the operations manual speech genre in engineering communication." International Journal “Speech Genres” 29, no. 1 (March 24, 2021): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/2311-0740-2021-1-29-49-56.
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The article addresses basic genre parameters of the operations manual and aims to develop its genre model within engineering discourse. Engineering communication is becoming a subject of a special focus for linguists due to its rapid development driven by dynamic changes in technology, society and industry, which results in continuous exchange of information between the members of the engineering society. Despite the significant number of studies in the field of certain institutional discourses, the genre structure of engineering discourse, one of the promising fields of communicative linguistics, is still a research challenge due to insufficient studies of the engineering discourse as well as the professional communication in general. Since discourse is embodied in certain genres, and genres, in turn, are always included into a certain discourse field, the author proposes the idea that the engineering discourse provides a number of core genres which reflect the values, strategies and information of engineering communication. The research is based on the texts of operations manuals for the equipment produced by Russian manufacturers. The analysis of genre parameters and lexical aspects has revealed a number of key characteristics of the operations manual as well as its peculiar linguistic presentation as of a specific genre of engineering communication. The analysis proves that the operation manual genre meets the primary goal of professional communication in the engineering field. The peculiar characteristics of the studied genre are determined by the professional communicative purposes and the situation. The results of the research may be used in university lectures on professional communication, cognitive linguistics and cognitive terminology studies.