Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the developing RGS tradition. She has done me the honour of reading my...

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Main Author: Carolyn R. Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing 2020-08-01
Series:Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie
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Online Access:https://journals.sfu.ca/dwr/index.php/dwr/article/view/843
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Summary:Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the developing RGS tradition. She has done me the honour of reading my work thoroughly and carefully, more carefully in some cases than I wrote it. She has taken up Rhetorical Genre Studies in her own way and given us much in return. And in response, I feel … well … compelled to reply, to take up the conversation, to add to the chain of semiosis.
ISSN:2563-7320