Overview

This collection sets out an innovative research agenda for advancing a multidisciplinary approach to genre, bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines to enhance our existing understanding of the challenges and opportunities for current and future genre research. The volume brings together perspectives from across disciplinary borders, including such fields as discourse studies, cognitive studies, computational discourse analysis, and education, to advance genre research into new directions, as it has historically been studied from a mono-disciplinary perspective. The book highlights how fruitful a multidisciplinary approach can be in accounting for the dynamic complexity of the discourse genres that underpin daily life, exploring six broad themes: defining genre; stability and variation; genre and cognition; computational methods; language and literacy development; and genre education. Taken together, the volume makes the case for the value of such an approach in better accounting for the conceptual and empirical complexities of genre and, in turn, serving as a springboard for innovations in genre research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in linguistics, discourse studies, discourse psychology, media studies, language and literacy development, and education.

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Author:   Ninke Stukker ,  John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) ,  Danielle McNamara ,  Wilbert Spooren
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032371627

ISBN 10:   1032371625
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   30 January 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara and Wilbert Spooren Chapter 2. What is “genre”? Theoretical dimensions for the analysis of genre John A. Bateman Chapter 3. Genre beyond boundaries: Towards a definition John A. Bateman, Vivien Heller, Ilaria Moschini and Maria Grazia Sindoni Chapter 4. Stability and variation in genre Barbara De Cock and Wilbert Spooren Chapter 5. Cognitive perspectives on the role of genre in reading comprehension Kathryn S. McCarthy, Marco van de Ven, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek Chapter 6. Computational methods for the analysis of fiction genres Andreas van Cranenburgh, Laura Allen, Serge Sharoff and Karina van Dalen-Oskam Chapter 7. Bridging the gap between genre theory and genre education Ninke Stukker, Tracy Arner, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Vivien Heller, Melanie J. Hof and Moniek Vis Chapter 8. Looking forward: A research agenda for a multidimensional understanding of genres in discourse Ninke Stukker, John A. Bateman, Danielle McNamara and Wilbert Spooren Index

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Ninke Stukker is Assistant Professor at the Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. John A. Bateman is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English and Linguistics Departments at the University of Bremen, Germany. Danielle McNamara is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Science of Learning and Educational Technology at Arizona State University, USA. Wilbert Spooren is Professor of Discourse Studies of Dutch at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

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