Preface; 1 Getting going with genre; 2 Stories; 3 Histories; 4 Reports and explanations; 5 Procedures and procedural recounts; 6 Keeping going with genre
J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics. David Rose is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, currently coordinating a national research program in language and literacy for Indigenous Australians. This project, Learning to Read: Reading to Learn, works with schools across Australia, as well as Indigenous teacher training programs in University of Sydney and University of South Australia.
This valuable introduction to the genre theory of the Sydney School
by Martin and Rose provides a theoretical and analytic framework to
understand language as a form of social practice. ...One of the
best aspects of the book is the way it integrates description and
theory and links them to social practice and intervention. The
authors are able to demonstrate that there need not be distinctions
between contributions to theory and practice because their work has
importance for both.
Journal of Language in Society'This book certainly gives analysts
more tools for thinking about genres and genre relations than
previous works on the subject. From paradigmatic relations among
genres, the authors argue their way towards a notion of
macro-genres and multi-generic and indeed multi-modal text,
arriving at some very expansive claims in the final chapter. The
authors invite readers to consider an all-encompassing view of
genres as configurations of meaning that constitute a culture. This
is a much bolder claim than we have seen in this field for some
time, and it is one that should raise wide-ranging questions for
scholars concerned with the relationship between language and
culture.'
Hongyan Zhang, School of Foreign Languages, China University of
Geosciences in Discourse Studies
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