Reflections by Marina Santini. Copyright © 2012, All rights reserved. Genres of organisational communication are recognised types of communicative actions enacted by members of a community to perform organizational tasks. Organizational genres are based on a combination of technical, social…
Tag: Carolyn Miller
Genre, Social Action and Social Intelligence
An important dimension that has not been investigated so far is the relatedness among genre, social action and social intelligence. The interpretation of genre in terms of social action was put forward more than 25 years ago by Carolyn Miller…
Book Review. Genres in the Internet (2009)
Book Review by Marina Santini (Forthcoming. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory) Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (editors), Genres in the Internet. John Benjamin Publishing Company, Amsterdam-Philadelphia, 2009, 294 pp. Genres in the Internet makes an important contribution to the analysis…
Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt (2009) I
Amy J. Devitt, Re-fusing form in genre study, in Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein (eds) Genres in the Internet, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 The chapter Re-fusing form in genre study by Amy J. Devitt has a very clear mission:…