Corpora: register and genre

[Geoffrey Williams]

I would say that you are dealing with two different registers, the genre is
academic prose, but that is probably a very high level genre as the styles
are probably very different. If you are dealing with research publications
your sciences texts will probably follow variations on Swales's IMRD model,
that would not be the case in Commerce/Economics. One of your first tasks
will be to define what is prototypical of the genre you are studying and
also define the discourse communities you intend to look at as both the
fields you give are very wide
Best
Geoffrey Williams

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Beverley McCombe <b_mccombe at hotmail.com>
À : corpora at hd.uib.no <corpora at hd.uib.no>
Date : jeudi 31 août 2000 11:06
Objet : 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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