Genre as social action

1984/05/01 by Carolyn R. Miller · 9 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Discourse Analysis in Language Studies #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Rhetoric and Communication Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/00335638409383686

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Abstract

This essay proposes a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation‐types. The thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.

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