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Verbal Communication
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Verbal Communication

by Andrea Rocci, Louis de Saussure
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
614 pages
21h 52m
English
De Gruyter Mouton
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Carolyn R. Miller and Ashley R. Kelly

14Discourse Genres

Abstract: Genre marks large-scale repeated patterns of meaning in human symbolic production and interaction. Approaches to genre can be divided into the formalist-thematic, attending to categories and discriminations based on linguistic or textual elements and drawing from cognitive theories; and the pragmatic, attending primarily to use-patterns drawing from social theories of function, action, and communal interaction. This overview draws from disciplines explicitly concerned with natural language, including literature, rhetoric, and several areas of linguistics. A distinction between rational and empirical approaches to genre affects both how genre is conceived and what methods are used ...

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