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Genre and institutions : social processes in the workplace and school /

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people''s subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture. The book''s particular claim to originality i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Christie, Frances, Martin, J. R., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, [2000]
Colección:Open linguistics series.
Continuum studies in language and education.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people''s subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture. The book''s particular claim to originality is that, using systemic functional grammar, it demonstrates how given genres build or enact social practice, how educational setting provide contexts in which some apprenticeship into such genres occurs, and how theorizing about such matters helps build a theory of social action, revealing how powerful is the systemic f.
Notas:Originally published: London; Washington : Cassell, 1997.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (270 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781847141378
1847141374
9780304337668
0304337668