Corpora: register and genre

[Alejandro Curado]

I would say that the register dimension of academic prose can contain
different genres, depending on communicative purposes (Swales, 1981):
research article, reports, textbook... Yet, I might even consider talking
about sub-registers like academic prose in Geology textbooks where common
collocations like `land rift´ would be characteristic lexical traits
(Gavioli, 1996). Any way, I hope this helps or at least contributes to the
discussion.
Best wishes
----- Original Message -----
From: Beverley McCombe <b_mccombe at hotmail.com>
To: <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:52 AM
Subject: Corpora: register and genre


> Hello,
> Having embarked on a masters thesis in corpus analysis and wishing to
> compare the collocational nature of prepositions across academic
disciplines
> I find that I am not sure whether to call this 'specific registers' or
> genres. Both are written academic prose which would seem to be of the same
> genre but as the topics are different - commerce and economics versus
> natural science/history - I would call it ,specific registers'.
> Any comments?
> Beverley McCombe
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