Genre and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826447406 ISBN 13 : 9780826447401

Editeur : Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2000

Synopsis

The contributors to this volume present 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 meanings 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 practices, how educational settings provide contexts in which some apprenticeship into such genres occurs, and how theorizing about such matters helps to build a theory of social action. In this way, it demonstrates the power of systemic functional analysis in addressing questions concerning the social construction of reality. The discussion is built around the extensive analysis of texts collected in a number of work and school settings. While most of the instances are written genres, some are spoken - most notably in the chapter devoted to the discussion of the spoken classroom texts in which the teaching and learning of the written genres take place.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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 functional analysis in addressing questions concerning the social construction of reality. The discussion is built around extensive analysis of instances of texts collected in a number of worksites and school settings. While most are instances of written genres, some are spoken, most notably the chapter that is devoted to the discussion of the spoken classroom texts in which the teaching and learning of the written genres take place.

Biographie de l'auteur

Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826447406
• ISBN 13: 9780826447401
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Christie Frances, Martin J. R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible