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Date Posted: 17:31:45 07/08/03 Tue
Author: RENATA BAHIA
Subject: TASK 11 - RENATA BAHIA - LET 175C

EXPLAIN WHAT A GENRE-BASED APPROACH IS:

A Genre-based approach can be seen as the study of how language is used within a particular setting. It focuses on such issues as thetorical styles and discourse types and relates research in sociolinguistics, text linguistic and discorse analysis to the stydy of specialist areas of language.
Some genre researchers seek to understand how the interests, goals, and shared assumptions of different discourse communities impact on the writing process, and how different genres may function as both modes of thought and heuristics of process. We also can say that genre theory recognizes the "distinctive profile of regularities" apparent in the texts themselves, the authoring process, the interpretive process of reading and the social roles of the readers and writers. This interpretation of genre implies that a writer’s task may be affected by his/her knowledge and consideration of genre, and that this may figure into the decision. Although genres are still identified by structural and textual features, "genre is now understood rather as the functional relationship between that structure and the situation. In other words, the new genre theory focuses primarily on symbolic action-what texts and utterances do and only secondarily on what they say. We could say that genre is: 1)comprised of categories of discourse resulting from social action;
2)rule-governed to some degree; 3) distinguishable from form; 4) constitutive of culture and 6) a mediating force between the individual and society.
Basically, a genre-based approach bases in the understanding of "the primacy of the social" and the "role of contexts”. Genre theory thrives as the most fully elaborated theory of writing to date because it joins the micro level of writing to the macro level of discourse, unites process with product, and connects the individual (cognitivist) and the social (constructionist) approaches.

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