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Genre and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School

By Frances Christie , J. R. Martin

Book information

Publisher
Cassell
Year
1997
ISBN
0304337668, 9780304337668
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14469501 bytes)
Pages
288\279
Time added
2015-09-08 11:47:04

Description

This text examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building meanings in a culture. Using the systemic functional grammar, the book demonstrates how given genres build or enact social practices; how educational settings provide contexts in which some apprenticeship into such genres occurs; and how theorizing about such matters helps build a theory of social action, revealing how powerful the systemic functional analysis is in addressing questions concerning the social construction of reality. The discussion is built around analysis of texts collected in a number of worksites and school settings, and also of some spoken classroom texts.

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