| Description |
xiv, 190 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Rethinking Genre from a Sociocognitive Perspective -- 2. News Value in Scientific Journal Articles -- 3. You Are What You Cite: Novelty and Intertextuality in a Biologist's Experimental Article -- 4. Sites of Contention, Sites of Negotiation: Textual Dynamics of Peer Review in the Construction of Scientific Knowledge -- 5. Evolution of a Scholarly Forum: Reader, 1977-1988 -- 6. Gatekeeping at an Academic Convention -- 7. Conventions, Conversations, and the Writer: An Apprenticeship Tale of a Doctoral Student / Carol Berkenkotter, Thomas N. Huckin and John Ackerman -- Postscript: The Assimilation and Tactics of Nate / John M. Ackerman -- 8. Suffer the Little Children: Learning the Curriculum Genres of School and University |
| Summary |
Based on 10 years of research in contexts as diverse as a doctoral program in rhetoric and composition and a scientist's peer review correspondence, this book develops a dynamic, activity-based theory of genre. Disciplinary genres, the authors propose, are constituted by evolving, communal, historically sedimented practices of "insiders" responsive to the dynamics of (re)current rhetorical situations. To support their unique perspective, Berkenkotter and Huckin draw on empirical findings from both micro- and macrolevel investigations including case studies of individual writers in action and large-corpus analyses of evolving genre features. The research methods and the theoretical framework presented should raise provocative questions for scholars, researchers, and teachers in rhetorical studies, communication, sociology, applied linguistics, education, and other fields interested in disciplinary communication |
| Analysis |
Genre based approach |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and indexes |
| Subject |
Discourse analysis.
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Register (Linguistics)
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Rhetoric.
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Sublanguage.
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| Author |
Huckin, Thomas N.
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| LC no. |
94016549 |
| ISBN |
0805816119 (alk. paper) |
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0805816127 (paperback: alk.paper) |
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