Genre and Institutions Social Processes in the Workplace and School

• Other Authors: Frances Christie (Editor), J. R. Martin (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Continuum, New York Cassell 2000
• Series: Open linguistics series
• Subjects: Discourse analysis > Social aspects; Language and education; Analyse du discours > Aspect social
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The contributors to this volume present genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building meanings in a culture. The book's particular claim to o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Frances Christie and J.R. Martin
• 1. Analysing genre: functional parameters / J.R. Martin
• 2. Science, technology and technical literacies / David Rose
• 3. The language of administration: organizing human activity in formal institutions / Rick Iedema
• 4. Death, disruption and the moral order: the narrative impulse in mass-'hard news' reporting / Peter White
• 5. Curriculum macrogenres as forms of initiation into a culture / Frances Christie
• 6. Learning how to mean
• scientifically speaking: apprenticeship into scientific discourse in the secondary school / Robert Veel
• 7. Constructing and giving value to the past: an investigation into second school history / Caroline Coffin.