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Genre (Definition, Kinds, and Pairs of Text)
Genre (Definition, Kinds, and Pairs of Text)
NPM : 19420082
Class : Writing 3B
A. DEFINITION
1. Genre is used to refer to particular text-types, not to traditional varieties of literature. It is a type
or kind of text, defined in terms of its social purposes; also the level of context dealing with
social purpose. Genre is a category of cultural. It can be thought of as staged, goal-oriented
social process which is followed by all writers or speakers in their production of any text.
2. Genre are how things get done, when language is used to accomplish them. They range from
literary to far form literary forms: poems, narratives, expositions, lectures, seminar, recipes,
manuals, appointment making, service encounters, news broadcast and so on. The term genre
is used here to embrace each of the linguistically realized activity types which comprise so
much of our culture
3. Use genre to read and write—to interpret, manage, construct, and negotiate various types of
text—and that our use of genre is mediated by our understanding of form, our affiliations with
communities, and our involvement in contexts doesn’t explain the specific ways that genres
“operationalize” typified activities, to use Russell’s (1997) term, particularly when the activities
under consideration are reading and writing.
4. A literary genre is a category of literary composition. Genres may be be determined by
technique, tone, content, or even lenght. The distintctions between genres and categories are
flexible and loosely defined, often with subgroups. Many books contain elements from different
genres.
5. Genre, as referring to generally unchanging regularities in conventions of form and content,
usually with reference to literary works, allowing readers to identify, for example classes of
work such as poetry, fiction, and drama….Such classification of text has extended as well to
prescriptive classification in school writing and thus the familiar categories of exposition,
description, argumentation, and narration
B. KINDS
1. Story genre, consists of six genres; they are narrative, news story, exemplum, anecdote, and
recount, spoof.
2. Factual genre, is divided into procedure, explanation, report, exposition, and discussion,
description, review.
C. PAIRS OF TEXT
A. SOCIAL FUNCTION
1. STORY GENRE
2. FACTUAL GENRE
FACTUAL GENRE SOCIAL FUNCTION
B. SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE
1. STORY GENRE
2. FACTUAL GENRE
FACTUAL GENRE SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE