6. Genre analysis
1. Pragmatics and genre analysis
At first sight, it might appear that the fields of pragmatics and genre analysis would have little in common, at least partly because of their very different historical developments. Pragmatics, in its origination, was largely the province of philosophers, while genre analysis was formerly a branch of literary studies, which then spread to anthropology and folklore studies, and then linguistics/discourse analysis. However, if we remember the well-known characterization of genre by systemic-functional linguist, Jim Martin, “Genres are how things get done, when language is used to accomplish them” (1985: 250), then we can see a connection with the famous ...
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