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Date Posted: 15:58:34 07/15/03 Tue
Author: Mônica Alvarenga
Subject: Task 11


07/15/2003
Assessment 11
Tenth class – July 14th to July18 th
Mônica Alvarenga


1- Explain what a genre-based approach is.

Genre is used in many different senses (at least 6) and is often problematic. Sunny Hyon gives an overview of different approaches to genre.
Genres are abstract, socially recognized ways of using language. When writing we follow certain
A convention for organizing messages because we want our reader to recognize our social purposes.
It is customary to distinguish three broad approaches to genre, each of which conceptualizes and analyses genre in a different way they are;
 A Systemic Functional view: a genre is defined as a staged, goal oriented social process. This involves the interaction of participants using language in a conventional, step-wise structure.
 A VESP perspective: a genre comprises a class of communicative events linked by shared purpose recognized by the members of a particular community. These purposes are the rationale of the genre and help to shape the ways it is structured and the choices of content and style it makes available.
 A New Rhetoric view: gives less emphasis to the form of discourse and more to the action it is used to accomplish, seeking to establish the connections between genre and repeated situations and to identify the way in which genres are seen as recurrent rhetorical actions.

In conclusion genres thus provide us with resources for getting things done in all areas of life. We all have a repertoire of appropriate responses we can call on to engage in recurring situations, from shopping lists to job applications.

Bibliography

http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm

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