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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781764003321

Autore

Paltridge Brian

Titolo

Genre, frames and writing in research settings [[electronic resource] /] / Brian Paltridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., c1997

ISBN

1-283-22202-7

9786613222022

90-272-8265-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 p.)

Collana

Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser., 45

Disciplina

808/.0014

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Frames (Linguistics)

Literary form

Research

Rhetoric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on four of the author's articles published in various sources, 1993-1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

GENRE, FRAMES AND WRITING IN RESEARCH SETTINGS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; CHAPTER 1. Introduction; CHAPTER 2. Approaches to Genre; CHAPTER 3. Genre and Frames; CHAPTER 4. A Sample Analysis: Writing up research; CHAPTER 5. Summary and Conclusions; Appendix; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a perspective on genre based on what it is that leads users of a language to recognise a communicative event as an instance of a particular genre. Key notions in this perspective are those of prototype, inheritance, and intertextuality; that is, the extent to which a text is typical of the particular genre, the qualities or properties that are inherited from other instances of the communicative event, and the ways in which a text is influenced by other texts of a similar kind. The texts which form the basis of this discussion are drawn from experimental research reporting in