Genre in a Changing World

520 Pages·2009·3.06 MB·English

by  Charles Bazerman

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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in Bonini
many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key
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to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and
educational settings. Genre in a Changing World provides a wide-ranging sampler
of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume,
reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South Ameri-
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ca, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth Interna-
tional Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, h e
Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date.
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The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic
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enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology,
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relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and

schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the pro-
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fessions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across n n
the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range
of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work. G Genre
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Contributors include John M. Swales, Paul Prior, Maria Antónia Coutinho, Florencia W
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Miranda, Fábio José Rauen, Cristiane Fuzer, Nina Célia Barros, Leonardo Mozdzen-
ski, Kimberly K. Emmons, Natasha Artemeva. Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyer- o
ring, Lynn McAlpine, Adair Bonini, Rui Ramos, Helen Caple, Débora de Carvalho
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Figueiredo, Charles Bazerman, Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo, Désirée Motta-Roth,
Amy Devitt, Maria Marta Furlanetto, Salla Lähdesmäki, David R. Russell, Mary Lea, l
Jan Parker, Brian Street, Tiane Donahue, Estela Inés Moyano, Solange Aranha, and
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Giovanni Parodi.
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GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD
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Contents
Editors’ Introduction ix
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and Débora Figueiredo
Part I Advances in Genre Theories 1
1 Worlds of Genre—Metaphors of Genre 3
John M. Swales
2 From Speech Genres to Mediated Multimodal Genre Systems:
Bakhtin, Voloshinov, and the Question of Writing 17
Paul Prior
3 To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies 35
Maria Antónia Coutinho and Florencia Miranda
4 Relevance and Genre: Theoretical and Conceptual Interfaces 56
Fábio José Rauen
Part II Genre and the Professions 77
5 Accusation and Defense: The Ideational Metafunction of
Language in the Genre Closing Argument 78
Cristiane Fuzer and Nina Célia Barros
6 The Sociohistorical Constitution of the Genre Legal Booklet:
A Critical Approach 97
Leonardo Mozdzenski
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7 Uptake and the Biomedical Subject 134
Kimberly K. Emmons
8 Stories of Becoming: A Study of Novice Engineers
Learning Genres of Their Profession 158
Natasha Artemeva
9 The Dissertation as Multi-Genre:
Many Readers, Many Readings 179
Anthony Paré, Doreen Starke-Meyerring, and Lynn McAlpine
Part III Genre and Media 195
10 The Distinction Between News and Reportage in the
Brazilian Journalistic Context: A Matter of Degree 196
Adair Bonini
11 The Organization and Functions of the Press Dossier:
The Case of Media Discourse on the Environment in Portugal 223
Rui Ramos
12 Multi-semiotic Communication in an Australian Broadsheet:
A New News Story Genre 243
Helen Caple
13 Narrative and Identity Formation: An Analysis of Media
Personal Accounts from Patients of Cosmetic Plastic Surgery 255
Débora de Carvalho Figueiredo
Part IV Genre in Teaching and Learning 277
14 Genre and Cognitive Development: Beyond Writing to Learn 279
Charles Bazerman
15 Bakhtin Circle’s Speech Genres Theory: Tools for a
Transdisciplinary Analysis of Utterances in Didactic Practices 295
Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo
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16 The Role of Context in Academic Text Production
and Writing Pedagogy 317
Désirée Motta-Roth
18 Curricular Proposal of Santa Catarina State:
Assessing the Route, Opening Paths 352
Maria Marta Furlanetto
19 Intertextual Analysis of Finnish EFL Textbooks:
Genre Embedding as Recontextualization 375
Salla Lähdesmäki
Part V Genre in Writing Across the Curriculum 393
20 Exploring Notions of Genre in “Academic Literacies”
and “Writing Across the Curriculum”:
Approaches Across Countries and Contexts 395
David R. Russell, Mary Lea, Jan Parker,
Brian Street, and Tiane Donahue
21 Genre and Disciplinary Work in French Didactics Research 424
Tiane Donahue
22 Negotiating Genre: Lecturer’s Awareness in
Genre Across the Curriculum Project at the University Level 449
Estela Inés Moyano
23 The Development of a Genre-Based Writing Course for
Graduate Students in Two Fields 465
Solange Aranha
24 Written Genres in University Studies:
Evidence from an Academic Corpus of
Spanish in Four Disciplines 483
Giovanni Parodi
Author and Editor Institutional Affiliations 503
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Genre in a Changing World
Editors’ Introduction
Charles Bazerman, Adair Bonini, and
Débora Figueiredo
It has been a decade since the Vancouver conference on genre, which resulted
in the volume The Rhetoric and Ideology of Genre (appearing in 2002). Since then
the world of genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction have con-
tinued to grow rapidly, gaining variety and complexity as the concept of genre
has been examined through a widening variety of intellectual traditions, has
been researched in the social histories of many countries, and has been creatively
applied in many different educational settings internationally. Although there
have been many conferences and publications on genre in the intervening years,
this is the first volume since the one arising out of the Vancouver conference to
represent the current range of work on genre. As you will see that range is now
truly remarkable and puts us on the verge of another dynamic period of theoreti-
cal reformulation, research, and application.
The twenty-four papers in this volume were selected from the over 400
presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre
Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in
August 2007. Two special issues of journals have also been drawn from this con-
ference: issue 3.1 of Linguistics and Human Sciences and a forthcoming issue of
L1: Educational Studies in Language and Literature. At this conference two series
of conferences were brought together. The first SIGET conference was in 2003
at Londrina, Paraná as a predominantly Brazilian event, meeting again in 2004
in Vitória, Paraná and in 2005 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul. In 2007 the
organizing committee of SIGET in order to expand the international scope of
the conference reached out to include the participants in a series of informally
organized genre conferences in North America and Europe convening in Ottawa
in 1992, in Vancouver in 1998, and in Oslo in 2001. Participants in SIGET IV
came from all over the globe, and authors in this volume represent Argentina,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Portugal, the United King-
dom, and the United States.
Both the wide range of participation and Brazil as the venue of this remark-
able conjunction were no accident. All regions of the world are increasingly
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