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Paltridge, Brian. 1997. Genre, Frames and Writing in Research Settings. (Pragmatics and Beyond: New Series 45). John Benjamins. x + 192 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
ISBN
90 272 5058 8

Annotation

This book presents a perspective on genre, based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognize a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is typical of the particular genre, the qualities or properties that are inherited from other instances of the communicative event, and the ways in which a text is influenced by other texts of a similar kind. The texts which form the basis of this discussion are drawn from experimental research reporting in English.