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Genre as social action
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In this paper, a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation-types is proposed, and the thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.Abstract:
This essay proposes a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation‐types. The thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.read more
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Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a synthesis of a number of elements from these theories, drawing most heavily on Charles Bazerman's (1994) analysis of genre as systems of speech acts within an overarching framework of Vygotskian activity theory (Leont'ev, 1981; Engestrom, 1987, 1993).
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A Grammar of Motives.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways of placing objects in a way that they can be placed according to the philosophy of the Philosophic Schools and the Dialectic of CONSTITUTIONS.
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A Grammar of Motives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss ways of placing objects in a way that they can be placed according to the philosophy of the Philosophic Schools and the Dialectic of CONSTITUTIONS.
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A Rhetoric of Motives
TL;DR: As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and...
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The Rhetorical Situation
TL;DR: The rhetorical situation is the context in which speakers or writers create rhetorical discourse as mentioned in this paper, which is not a standard term in the vocabulary of rhetorical theory, and therefore it is difficult to define it.