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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contributors; Introduction; 1 Analysing genre: functional parameters; 2 Science, technology and technical literacies; 3 The language of administration: organizing human activity in formal institutions; 4 Death, disruption and the moral order: the narrative impulse in mass-media ''hard news'' reporting; 5 Curriculum macrogenres as forms of initiation into a culture; 6 Learning how to mean
  • scientifically speaking: apprenticeship into scientific discourse in the secondary school; 7 Constructing and giving value to the past: an investigation into secondary school history.
  • 8 Entertaining and instructing: exploring experience through storyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.