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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825261603321

Titolo

Genre and institutions : social processes in the workplace and school / / edited by Frances Christie and J.R. Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Cassell, 1997

ISBN

1-281-29463-2

9786611294632

1-84714-137-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristieFrances

MartinJ. R

Disciplina

401/.41

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Social aspects

Language and education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Introduction; 1 Analysing genre: functional parameters; 2 Science, technology and technical literacies; 3 The language of administration: organizing human activity in formal institutions; 4 Death, disruption and the moral order: the narrative impulse in mass-media 'hard news' reporting; 5 Curriculum macrogenres as forms of initiation into a culture; 6 Learning how to mean - scientifically speaking: apprenticeship into scientific discourse in the secondary school; 7 Constructing and giving value to the past: an investigation into secondary school history

8 Entertaining and instructing: exploring experience through storyIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture. The book's particular claim to originality is that, using systemic functional grammar, it demonstrates how given genres build or enact social practice, how educational setting provide contexts in which some apprenticeship into such genres occurs, and how theorizing about such matters helps build a theory of social action,



revealing how powerful is the systemic fun