More literature on genre analysis

[Henrik Rahm]

A good theoretical point of departure would be:

Bachtin, Michail (1986): Speech genres and other late essays. Austin:
University of Texas Press.

Partly inspired by Bakhtin, however introducing a theory for
explaining how changes in society influence text changes and vice
versa:

Fairclough, Norman (1992): Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press

Genre specific texts:

Hauptmeier, Helmut (1987): Sketches of theories of genre. In: Poetics 16

Jansson, Rowena (2000): Getting it Together.A genre analysis of the
rhetorical structure of Open University television programmes in
science and technology. (diss.) Lund University: Department of English

Freedman, Aviva & Medway, Peter (ed.) (1994): Genre and the New
Rhetoric. London: Taylor & Frances

Paltridge, Brian (1997): Genres, frames and writing in research
settings. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Swales, John (1990): Genre analysis. English in academic and research
settings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Within the research project Non-literary prose in Sweden genres have
been investigated. The main part of the work is in Swedish, but there
are summaries in English. If you are interested, contact me
(Henrik.Rahm at nordlund.lu.se).

Genre regards,

Henrik Rahm





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