{"id":6319,"date":"2005-06-01T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/on-genre\/"},"modified":"2005-06-01T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2005-06-01T15:36:51","slug":"on-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/01\/on-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"On Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>From Anthony Giddens, &quot;Problems of Action and Structure.&quot; <i><br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0804722048\/102-9190803-7174502?v=glance\"><br \/>\nThe Giddens Reader<\/a><\/i>.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;If interpretative sociologies are founded, as it were, upon an imperialism<br \/>\nof the subject, functionalism and structuralism propose an imperialism of the<br \/>\nsocial object. One of my principal ambitions in the formulation of structuration<br \/>\ntheory is to put an end to each of these empire-building endeavours.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nbasic domain of study of the social sciences, according to the theory of<br \/>\nstructuration, is neither the experience of the individual actor, not the<br \/>\nexistence of any form of societal totality, but social practices ordered across<br \/>\nspace and time&quot; (89).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From Bakhtin, &quot;The Problem of Speech Genres.&quot; <i><br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/utpress\/excerpts\/exbakess.html\"><br \/>\nSpeech Genres and Other Late Essays<\/a><\/i>.:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;We speak only in definite speech genres, that is, all our utterances have<br \/>\ndefinite and relatively stable typical forms of construction of the whole&quot; (78).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If speech genres did not exist and we had not mastered them, if we had to<br \/>\noriginate them during speech process and construct each utterance at will for<br \/>\nthe first time, speech communication would be almost impossible&quot; (79).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Carolyn Miller, &quot;Genre as Social Action&quot; (1984):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;The genre classification I am advocating is, in effect, ethnomethodological:<br \/>\nit seeks to explicate the knowledge that practice creates.&nbsp; This approach<br \/>\ninsists that the &#8216;de facto&#8217; genres, the types we have names for in everyday<br \/>\nlanguage, tell us something theoretically important about discourse.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As a recurrent, significant action, a genre embodies an aspect of cultural<br \/>\nrationality.&nbsp; For the critic, genres can serve both as an index to cultural<br \/>\npatterns and as tools for exploring the achievements of particular speakers and<br \/>\nwriters; for the student, genres serve as keys to understanding how to<br \/>\nparticipate in the actions of a community.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Carolyn Miller, &quot;Rhetorical Community: The Cultural Basis of Genre&quot; (1994):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;The genre set represents a system of actions and interactions that have<br \/>\nspecific social locations and functions as well as repeated or recurrent value<br \/>\nor function.&nbsp; It adumbrates a relationship between material particulars,<br \/>\ninstantiations of a genre in individual acts, and systems of value and<br \/>\nsignification&quot; (70).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From Anis Bawarshi, <i><br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.usu.edu\/usupress\/individl\/Genre%20and%20Invention.htm\">Genre and the Invention of the Writer<\/a><\/i> (2003):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&quot;Guided by an understanding of writing as social activity, composition<br \/>\nscholarship has become less concerned with inquiring into generalizable<br \/>\ncognitive processes and more concerned with inquiring into the localized,<br \/>\ntextured conditions in which cognition and social activities are organized&quot; (5).<\/p>\n<p>&quot;As we write various texts, then, we rhetorically enact and reproduce the<br \/>\ndesires that prompted them.&nbsp; This recursive process is what genre is.&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd as we rhetorically enact and reproduce these desires, we also rhetorically<br \/>\nenact, reproduce, and potentially resist and\/or transform the social activities,<br \/>\nthe roles, and the relations that are embedded in these desires&quot; (45).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>From Anthony Giddens, &quot;Problems of Action and Structure.&quot; The Giddens Reader.: &quot;If interpretative sociologies are founded, as it were, upon an imperialism of the subject, functionalism and structuralism propose an imperialism of the social object. 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