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Date Posted: 15:16:01 07/18/03 Fri
Author: Richard Davis
Subject: Task 11

Explain what a genre-based approach is.

Firstly, is quite important to define what exactly genre is. However, it is not so easy to define it. Genre can be seen as a culturally, socially and historically determined and situated practice, for example, when we writing something, we are following certain characteristic form or technique for organising ideas because we want our reader to recognise our social purposes.
Indeed, genre can be divided into three categories:
- A Systemic Functional view: a genre is defined as a dramatic, and oriented social process.
- An eESPf perspective: a genre comprises a class of communicative events related by shared purpose recognized by the members of a particular community.
- A eNew Rhetoricf view that gives more attention to the action of the discourse.
@ Thus, as Michael Critchley writes in his sitegWhat is needed now is research to identify and further develop genres in the spoken modeh. In fact, genres give us with resources for getting things done in all areas of our lives.

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http://personal.cityu.edu.hk/~enhyland/lectures_1-10.htm
http://www.encounters.jp/mike/professional/publications/bevseminar.html

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