03139nam 2200637Ia 450 991045813760332120200520144314.01-281-29463-297866112946321-84714-137-4(CKB)1000000000399658(EBL)436102(OCoLC)229886344(SSID)ssj0000161781(PQKBManifestationID)11153356(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000161781(PQKBWorkID)10198295(PQKB)10923650(MiAaPQ)EBC436102(Au-PeEL)EBL436102(CaPaEBR)ebr10224693(CaONFJC)MIL129463(OCoLC)893333868(EXLCZ)99100000000039965819960523d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGenre and institutions[electronic resource] social processes in the workplace and school /edited by Frances Christie and J.R. MartinNew York Cassell19971 online resource (279 p.)Open linguistics seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-7869-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 history8 Entertaining and instructing: exploring experience through storyIndexThis 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 funOpen linguistics series.Discourse analysisSocial aspectsLanguage and educationElectronic books.Discourse analysisSocial aspects.Language and education.401/.41Christie Frances283897Martin J. R283898MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458137603321Genre and institutions2064177UNINA