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Mapping Genres, Mapping Culture: Japanese texts in context
Edited by Elizabeth A. Thomson, Motoki Sano and Helen de Silva Joyce
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 281] 2017
► pp. 1–27

Chapter 1
Mapping genres using systemic functional linguistics

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Language in context
  • 3.The concept of genre
  • 4.Genre in SFL
    • 4.1Genre Theory
    • 4.2Generic Structure Potential
  • 5.Genre research in Japanese
  • 6.Looking into texts
    • 6.1Construing experience through transitivity
    • 6.2Building social relations through grammar
    • 6.3Judging and evaluating through Appraisal
  • 7.Mapping genres: Mapping culture
  • 8.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 7 December 2017
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