Overview

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.

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Author:   Frances Christie ,  Dr J. R. Martin (University of Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780826478696

ISBN 10:   0826478697
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   01 March 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Analysing genre: functional parameters; J. R. Martin; 2. Science, technology and technical literacies; David Rose; 3. The language of administration: organizing human activity in formal institutions; Rick Idema; 4. Death, disruption and the moral order: the narrative impulse in mass-media 'hard news' reporting; Peter White; 5. Curriculum macrogenres as forms of initiation into a culture; Frances Christie; 6. Learning how to mean - scientificially speaking: apprenticeship into scientific discourse in the secondary school; 7. Constructing and giving value to the past: an investigation into secondary school history; Caroline Coffin; 8. Entertaining and instructing: exploring experience through story; Joan Rothery and maree Stenglin

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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. J. R. Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. The Martin Centre for Appliable Linguistics was opened by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014.

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