Genre Relations

Mapping Culture : 1st Edition

By: J. R. Martin, David Rose

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This book provides an introduction to genre analysis from the perspective of the 'Sydney School' of functional linguistics. Chapter 1 introduces our general orientation to genre from the perspective of system and structure, and places genre within our general model of language and social context. Chapters 2-5 deal with five major families of genres (stories, histories, reports, explanations and procedures), introducing a range of descriptive tools and theoretical developments along the way. Finally in Chapter 6 we deal with a range of issues arising for genre analysis in a model of this kind. The book has been written for a readership of functional linguists, discourse analysts and educational linguists, including their post-graduate and advanced undergraduate students. J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. David Rose is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, currently coordinating a national research program in language and literacy for Indigenous Australians. This project, Learning to Read: Reading to Learn, works with schools across Australia, as well as Indigenous teacher training programs in University of Sydney and University of South Australia. Table of contents: Preface; Getting going with genre; Stories; Histories; Reports and explanations; Procedures and procedural recounts; Keeping going with genre.

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This valuable introduction to the genre theory of the Sydney School by Martin and Rose provides a theoretical and analytic framework to understand language as a form of social practice. ...One of the best aspects of the book is the way it integrates description and theory and links them to social practice and intervention. The authors are able to demonstrate that there need not be distinctions between contributions to theory and practice because their work has importance for both.
Journal of Language in Society

'This book certainly gives analysts more tools for thinking about genres and genre relations than previous works on the subject. From paradigmatic relations among genres, the authors argue their way towards a notion of macro-genres and multi-generic and indeed multi-modal text, arriving at some very expansive claims in the final chapter. The authors invite readers to consider an all-encompassing view of genres as configurations of meaning that constitute a culture. This is a much bolder claim than we have seen in this field for some time, and it is one that should raise wide-ranging questions for scholars concerned with the relationship between language and culture.'
Hongyan Zhang, School of Foreign Languages, China University of Geosciences in Discourse Studies

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Preface	p. ix
Getting going with genre	p. 1
Back to school	p. 1
Where did we turn?	p. 8
Modelling context	p. 9
Systemic functional linguistics	p. 21
Tools for analysis: discourse semantics	p. 30
Grammatical metaphor	p. 38
A note on multimodality	p. 44
This book	p. 47
Stories	p. 49
Variation in stories	p. 49
Recount: recording personal experience	p. 53
Anecdotes - reacting to events	p. 56
Exemplum - interpreting incidents	p. 62
Observations - commenting on events	p. 65
Narratives - resolving complications	p. 67
News stories - new kinds of stories	p. 74
A system of story genres	p. 81
Story phases - another perspective	p. 82
Response genres - evaluating stories	p. 93
Histories	p. 99
From stories to histories	p. 99
Biographical recounts - telling life histories	p. 100
Historical recounts - recording public histories	p. 105
Historical accounts and explanations - explaining the past	p. 114
Expositions, discussions and challenges - debating the past	p. 118
Packaging value - what history means	p. 124
Typology - classifying difference	p. 130
Topology - proximating likeness	p. 131
Reports and explanations	p. 141
Classifying and explaining	p. 141
Reports: classifying and describing things	p. 142
Explanations: how processes happen	p. 150
Genres in science	p. 166
Multimodal reports and explanations	p. 167
Procedures and procedural recounts	p. 181
Procedures: directing specialised activities	p. 182
Procedural recounts	p. 198
Protocol	p. 213
Procedural systems	p. 217
Macrogenres	p. 218
Education and production	p. 226
Keeping going with genre	p. 231
Is genre everything?	p. 231
Relations among genres - paradigmatic relations	p. 235
Relations between genres - syntagmatic relations	p. 250
Dialogue	p. 260
Notes	p. 262
References	p. 267
Index	p. 286
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