Genre

Exploring genre repertoire and document work in the Assemblea operai e studenti of 1969

by Steve Wright

forthcoming in Archival Science: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1389-0166/

The Porous Coupling of Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis

by Justine McGill

Verbal irony: Differences in usage across written genres

by Christian Burgers

Co-authored with Margot van Mulken and Peter Jan Schellens
In press with Journal of Language and Social Psychology

According to Gibbs and Colston, one of the biggest challenges for irony research is the uncovering of the various ways... more According to Gibbs and Colston, one of the biggest challenges for irony research is the uncovering of the various ways in which irony is used in discourse. This article takes up a genre-based approach to deal with this research challenge. In a content
analysis of ironic utterances from six written genres (commercial and noncommercial advertisements, columns, cartoons, letters to the editor, book and film reviews), ironic utterances are compared on the usage of irony factors and irony markers. Results indicate that every genre in the corpus differs from the general distribution for at least one irony factor and one category of irony markers. Taken together, the clustering of irony factors and markers in specific genres is a first step toward identifying the various ways in which verbal irony is used differently across various genres.

Evidentiality and genre in Chol Mayan traditional narrative

by Heidi Altman

Theorizing film realism empirically (2009)

by Constantine Nakassis

New Cinemas, 2009.

Desire, Youth, and Realism in Tamil Cinema (2007)

by Constantine Nakassis

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, co-authored with Melanie Dean

The Western

by Alan Lovell

King Cole, Crossover, and Containment

by Eric D. Johnson

This is chapter one of my dissertation, Crossover Narratives: Race, Genre and Authenticity in American Popular Music.

This chapter argues that racialized constructions of authenticity in popular musical genre, particularly the... more This chapter argues that racialized constructions of authenticity in popular musical genre, particularly the discursive constitution of rock and roll's origins in racially authenticated "black music" genres such as rhythm and blues, have led to distortions and elisions in popular memory and popular culture. I use the figure of Nat "King" Cole, a singer whose historical importance is obscured by his association with music deemed inauthentic by the narrative of rock and roll's origins, to deduce contradictions and paradoxes created by this narrative, which I argue should be understood, like all generic narratives as a socially symbolic act; an attempt to provide an aesthetic resolution to the lived and felt contradictions of everyday life.

Manière de boire et rapports sociaux de genre chez les jeunes (18-25 ans)

by Lionel Dany

Rôle de l’identité sexuée et de l’influence du genre pour l’analyse de l’expérience des soins de support en oncologie

by Lionel Dany

Das, R., Kleut, J & Bolin, G. (2013) Textual demands of ‘new’ genres and new roles for the audience? An overview of recent research. For Carpentier et. al. (Eds) Transformations: Late modernity’s shifting audience positions. Intellect. Forthcoming

by Ranjana Das

Highlighting the emergence of new genres in the age of the internet and the simultaneous academic interest in their... more Highlighting the emergence of new genres in the age of the internet and the simultaneous academic interest in their evolution, this paper reflects on what new demands are placed on audiences as they engage with, and indeed, create and participate in these new forms. We raise and respond to two related questions - what is the consensus on the novelty (or not) of the generic features of texts and technologies that surrounds us, and, relatedly, what new things are we, as audiences and users, expected to learn and do? Organised as an indicative, and far from exhaustive review of contemporary literature, we bring together a largely scattered coversation happening in the field, to provide a useful starting point for empirical pursuits in this area. We suggest that such an attempt is at this moment, necessary in the field for two reasons. First, a lot of rich research in and orbiting these matters seems to be happening around us and it is perhaps time to weave these into a narrative of sorts. And second, there is an interdisciplinary nature to these questions - scholars in departments of literacy theory, information systems and media studies ponder these questions alike and to that end, we aim to wave towards some of the resources that are available to those of us who wish to empirically pursue this area for future research.

Rethinking Genre In School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis

by David R. Russell

Don Quixote Among the Saracens: A Clash of Civilizations

by Frederick A. De Armas

Boyd & Monacelli-Genre in:exclusion and Recontextualization

by Michael S. Boyd

Co-authored with Claudia Monacelli
Draft only
To be published In K. J. Kellet Bidoli (Ed), Interpreting Across Genres: Multiple Research Perspectives. Trieste: EUT (Edizioni Università di Trieste), pp. 184-200. 2012

This chapter describes the nature of interpreting in military/diplomatic contexts at the Italian Ministry of Defence... more This chapter describes the nature of interpreting in military/diplomatic contexts at the Italian Ministry of Defence (MoD) and it is particularly interested in the role played by genre in this context. In terms of diplomacy-level military discourse, we offer an overview of some important genres that are part of the job profile of MoD staff and freelance interpreters. Specifically, we focus on the “hyper-genre” (Giltrow / Stein 2009) of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and some related texts, genres and situations, which are combined in various ways to form “genre chains” (Fairclough 2003). Our main hypothesis is that MoD professionals are involved in genre-building and propagation. This hypothesis is premised on the notion that genre and context awareness are crucial to interpreters’ success. We argue that interpreters in a military-diplomatic situation assume varying degrees of responsibilities in genre dissemination and recontextualization (Boyd / Monacelli 2010).

(New) Political Genres for the Masses? YouTube in the 2008 US Presidential Elections

by Michael S. Boyd

Published in the volume 'Genres on the Move. Hybridization and Discourse Change in Specialized Communication'., Sarangi S., V. Polese & G. Caliendo (Eds). Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, pp. 27-44. 2011. ISBN 978-88-495-2229-7

This paper focuses on the use of YouTube in the 2008 presidential campaign as a means of (re)distributing campaign... more This paper focuses on the use of YouTube in the 2008 presidential campaign as a means of (re)distributing campaign speeches. The discussion is informed by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which sees text and talk not as mere artefacts but as the result of social processes, which are embedded in the society, culture and history that produce them (Fairclough 1995a; Chilton/Schäffner 2002). Furthermore, such an approach recognizes the crucial role of communicative and social purpose in defining genre, privileging the notions of recontextualization, mediatization and hybridization in text/genre production and reception (Fairclough 2006; 1995b; Wodak/Meyer 2009; Wodak 2009). The main research question addressed in the paper is whether campaign speeches, as exemplified by the speech “A More Perfect Union”, rebroadcast on YouTube should be treated as a new genre, sub-genre, and/or mediatised genre (Schäffner 1996; Chilton/Schäffner 2002; Wilson 2001). In other words, the paper is concerned with the ways in which the genre of political speech is changing to adapt to new media such as YouTube and how this medium and its various affordances affect genre membership and/or, lead to the creation of new genres (Herring et al. 2004). It also considers how the multimodal affordances of the medium, such as comments, ratings, embedding, etc. affect the genre. On a more general level, it considers how the underlying goals of the (political) speech are adapted to the medium. It is argued that the original speech and, therefore, the genre of political speech are significantly altered by the new medium changing the definition of the genre.

De Bruxelles à la Méditerranée. Périple au cœur de l’intime, la nuit et le voyage de noces (1820-1930)

by Tavares Gouveia Sara

La « première fois », que ce soit pour un jeune homme ou une jeune fille, est un moment mémorable. Dans la bourgeoisie... more La « première fois », que ce soit pour un jeune homme ou une jeune fille, est un moment mémorable. Dans la bourgeoisie francophile du XIXe siècle, cette initiation clôt l’adolescence, marque l’entrée dans le monde des adultes et s’impose comme l’un des rites de passage les plus importants. Toutefois, cette  « première fois »  se pose en termes différents selon le sexe. La virginité, valorisée pour les femmes, est en revanche considérée comme moins fondamentale pour les garçons qui aspirent à perdre au plus vite leur pucelage, se laissant ainsi « déniaiser» par une domestique, une prostituée ou une amie compréhensive de la mère. Cela est illustré dans l'article par deux moments fondateurs que sont la nuit de noces et le voyage de noces.

Fox, J. & Artemeva, N. (2011). The cinematic art of teaching university mathematics: chalk talk as embodied practice. Multimodal Communication, 1(1), 83-103.

by Natasha Artemeva

Co-authored with Janna Fox.

This article explores the multimodal nature of teaching university mathematics in international contexts. It focuses... more This article explores the multimodal nature of teaching university mathematics in international contexts. It focuses on the ‘cinematic’ art of teaching, applying a multimodal approach in the analysis of the pedagogical genre of ‘chalk talk’ as embodied disciplinary practice. The research draws on rhetorical genre studies and theories of situated learning and communities of practice. The data considered for the study consist of audio/video recorded lectures, observational notes, and semi-structured interviews collected from 50 participants teaching in 7 countries. Participants differ in linguistic, cultural, and educational backgrounds, teaching experience, and languages they use for instruction. The study suggests that a multimodal treatment of chalk talk as an embodied disciplinary pedagogical practice of teaching mathematics in the undergraduate lecture classroom allows researchers to further uncover the complexity of this genre. Better understanding the embodied pedagogical practices of the international mathematics CoP may lead to new insights regarding disciplinary-specific pedagogies.

Competing demands, multiple ideals, and the structure of argumentation practices

by Mark Aakhus

"Forms of Some Intenser Life": Genre and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century

by Brandon Jernigan

Dissertation

My dissertation establishes a critical dialogue between two distinct phenomena at the turn of the twentieth century:... more My dissertation establishes a critical dialogue between two distinct phenomena at the turn of the twentieth century: first, the exponential growth and mercurial nature of novelistic genres and, secondly, the emergence of modern global consciousness. Experimentations with genre, I argue, allowed writers to develop new narrative forms capable of representing an increasingly global, interdependent, and actively anti- imperialist world. Thus, this project specifically addresses late-nineteenth- and early- twentieth-century fiction that participates in or combines multiple genres, including Joseph Conrad’s The Nigger of the “Narcissus” and The Inheritors (with Ford Madox Ford), H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay, Bram Stoker’s The Snake’s Pass, and Algernon Blackwood’s “The Willows.” This concentration of generic discontinuities not only demonstrates genre’s formal instability but also its inability to function as a symbolic solution to the real socio-economic contradictions of empire. While these texts reflect the stress-fractures of expanding imperial sovereignty, they can hardly be read as outright critiques of imperial rule. Instead, they operate dialectically. They are unstable yet flexible. Though discontinuous texts thwart generic expectations, they also offer systems of flexibility that express and potentially manage imperial crises.

Mechanic/Aesthetic Videogame Genres: Adventure and Adventure

by Veli-Matti Karhulahti

NOTES BEFORE READING.
Not all games are genre games. A term that refers to a group of games does not necessarily make a genre – a "facebook game," for instance, is only a term that can be used to imply that the particular game is played on Facebook. This approach is not a comprehensive theory of videogame genres. It examines videogames from a limited aesthetic point of view to employ the concept of genre into a tool for understanding the aesthetic evolution of videogame art. Eventually, the goal of this paper comes close to how Grant Tavinor (Art of Videogames, 2009) describes his nominalist definition of video games: to "allow us to understand something very important about games, that is their continuity with other cultural forms." There is more than one approach to videogame genres. This is one of them.

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