•Journal•ISSN: 0102-3527
Letras & Letras
About: Letras & Letras is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Grammaticalization & Competence (human resources). It has an ISSN identifier of 0102-3527. It is also open access. Over the lifetime, 213 publication(s) have been published receiving 353 citation(s).
Topics: Grammaticalization, Competence (human resources), Foreign language, Source text, Language education
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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the main ideas in that article, the ways those ideas were taken up in North American Rhetorical Genre Studies, and the ways that genre theory and research have been extended since then, particularly with the advent of the new digital media.
Abstract: The article “Genre as Social Action” was published 30 years ago and has been taken up in numerous conversations about genre in the time since then. This paper reviews the main ideas in that article, the ways those ideas were taken up in North American Rhetorical Genre Studies, and the ways that genre theory and research have been extended since then, particularly with the advent of the new digital media. Central issues in current research are identified: the relationship between stability and change and the ways in which genres are or are not regulated. The adaptation to digital media has expanded genre theory to become a multidimensional concept, with genre as a structurational nexus mediating not only intention and exigence, form and substance, but also action and structure, medium and product, the material and the symbolic.
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