Critical reflections on genre analysis
Genre Analysis of academic and professional texts has traditionally been the focus of much of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) inspired language descriptions. The emphasis in this form of analysis was, and still continues to be, on the use of text-internal linguistic resources, in particular, on...
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Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos
2012-10-01
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| author | Vijay K. Bhatia |
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| description | Genre Analysis of academic and professional texts has traditionally been the focus of much of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) inspired language descriptions. The emphasis in this form of analysis was, and still continues to be, on the use of text-internal linguistic resources, in particular, on the use of formal and functional properties of language, especially analysis of rhetorical “moves” with relatively limited focus on context or text-external resources, which play an important role in the socio-pragmatics of academic and professional genres. This paper is an attempt to critically reflect on a general overview of this approach to the analysis of professional genres, while at the same, extending the scope of the construction, interpretation and use of professional genres by focusing on the academic and professional “practices” that most academics and professional experts are engaged in as part of their daily routine within what Bhatia (2010) calls “socio-pragmatic space” in which such professional genres invariably function. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb0d89229f994db7988344a9149f91712022-12-22T03:29:47ZengAsociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines EspecíficosIbérica1139-72412012-10-01241728Critical reflections on genre analysisVijay K. BhatiaGenre Analysis of academic and professional texts has traditionally been the focus of much of ESP (English for Specific Purposes) inspired language descriptions. The emphasis in this form of analysis was, and still continues to be, on the use of text-internal linguistic resources, in particular, on the use of formal and functional properties of language, especially analysis of rhetorical “moves” with relatively limited focus on context or text-external resources, which play an important role in the socio-pragmatics of academic and professional genres. This paper is an attempt to critically reflect on a general overview of this approach to the analysis of professional genres, while at the same, extending the scope of the construction, interpretation and use of professional genres by focusing on the academic and professional “practices” that most academics and professional experts are engaged in as part of their daily routine within what Bhatia (2010) calls “socio-pragmatic space” in which such professional genres invariably function.http://www.aelfe.org/documents/03_24_Bhatia.pdf(critical) genre analysisinterdiscursivityprofessional discoursesocio-pragmatic spacetext-internal and text-external resources |
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| title | Critical reflections on genre analysis |
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| title_short | Critical reflections on genre analysis |
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| topic | (critical) genre analysis interdiscursivity professional discourse socio-pragmatic space text-internal and text-external resources |
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