@article {1106, title = {Rhetorical Scarcity: Spatial and Economic Inflections on Genre Change}, journal = {College Composition and Communication}, volume = {63}, year = {2012}, month = {02/2012}, pages = {483}, chapter = {453}, abstract = {

This study examines how changes in a key scientific genre supported anthropology\’s early twentieth-century bid for scientific status. Combining spatial theories of genre with inflections from the register of economics, I develop the concept of rhetorical scarcity to characterize this genre change not as evolution but as manipulation that produces a manufactured situation of intense rhetorical constraint.

}, keywords = {genre, history, professional, rhetoric, science}, author = {Risa Applegarth} } @article {597, title = {Awareness Versus Production: Probing Students{\textquoteright} Antecedent Genre Knowledge}, journal = {Journal of Business \& Technical Communication}, volume = {24}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, pages = {476{\textendash}515}, abstract = {This article explores the role of students{\textquoteright} prior, or antecedent, genreknowledge in relation to their developing disciplinary genre competence by drawing on an illustrative example of an engineering genre-competence assessment. The initial outcomes of this diagnostic assessment suggest that students{\textquoteright} ability to successfully identify and characterize rhetorical and textual features of a genre does not guarantee their successful writing performance in the genre. Although previous active participation in genre production (writing) seems to have a defining influence on students{\textquoteright} ability to write in the genre, such participation appears to be a necessary but insufficient precondition for genre-competence development. The authors discuss the usefulness of probing student antecedent genre knowledge early in communication courses as a potential source for macrolevel curriculum decisions and microlevel pedagogical adjustments in course design, and they propose directions for future research. }, keywords = {antecedent genre, engineering communication, genre, genre competence, prior genre knowledge, rhetoric, targeted instruction}, author = {Artemeva, Natasha and Fox, Janna} } @article {606, title = {Hybrid Genres and the Cognitive Positioning of Audiences in the Political Discourse of Hizbollah}, journal = {Critical Discourse Studies}, volume = {7}, year = {2010}, month = {2010}, pages = {191{\textendash}201}, abstract = {This paper aims at providing a better understanding of the workings of political rhetoric in the discourse of Hizbollah by examining relatively underexplored socio-cognitive dimensions in production and reception of political speeches. It argues for the centrality of the macro-linguistic textual notion of hybrid genres to the understanding of the socio-cultural makeup of speaker-audience relations and dynamics. The adequateness and uniqueness of the Lebanese, and by extension, the Middle-Eastern context are more clearly evident in the overwhelming dominance of dogmatic discourses which, I argue, both trigger and aid the perpetual construction and reconstruction of ideologically susceptible audiences. Elements of these discourses such as religious, political, military and even literary blend in a unique way in public, normally political, speeches to produce a type of hybrid genre which helps construct constantly shifting audience roles with varying effective power. A pragmatic-stylistic analysis of the discourse of conflict, I propose, can help provide a starting point for understanding the complexity of the rhetorical situation in the region especially in the context of continuously rising extremism.}, keywords = {genre, hybrid genre, ideology, pragmatics, rhetoric, stylistics}, author = {Badran, Dany} } @book {618, title = {Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy}, series = {Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition}, year = {2010}, note = {+also in PDF form at WAC Clearinghouse }, month = {2010}, publisher = {Parlor Press}, organization = {Parlor Press}, address = {West Lafayette, IN}, keywords = {composition, ESP, genre, lingiustics, literature, rhetoric, sociology}, isbn = {254-8879 (this is the SAN; no ISBN listed)}, url = {http://wac.colostate.edu/books/bawarshi_reiff/}, author = {Bawarshi, Anis S. and Reiff, Mary Jo}, editor = {Bazerman, Charles} } @book {724, title = {Literary Theory: An Introduction}, year = {1983}, note = {+}, month = {1983}, publisher = {University of Minnesota Press}, organization = {University of Minnesota Press}, address = {Minneapolis}, keywords = {Poetics, politics, rhetoric}, author = {Eagleton, Terry} } @article {777, title = {The Memo and Modernity}, journal = {Critical Inquiry}, volume = {31}, year = {2004}, note = {+ pdf}, month = {2004}, pages = {108{\textendash}132}, keywords = {clarity, education, evolution, genre, information, information society, memorandum, modernity, persuasion, rhetoric, technicity, Yates}, author = {Guillory, John} } @book {784, title = {Logos and Power in Isocrates and Aristotle}, series = {Studies in Rhetoric/Communication}, year = {2004}, note = {+}, month = {2004}, publisher = {University of South Carolina Press}, organization = {University of South Carolina Press}, address = {Columbia, SC}, keywords = {change, democracy, education, genre, identification, kairos, literacy, orality, permanence, persuasion, Poetics, rhetoric}, isbn = {1-57003-526-1}, author = {Haskins, Ekaterina}, editor = {Benson, Thomas W.} } @inbook {817, title = {Textual Genre Analysis and Identification}, booktitle = {Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {3345}, year = {2005}, note = {+ pdf rhet}, month = {2005}, pages = {129{\textendash}151}, publisher = {Springer-Verlag GmbH}, organization = {Springer-Verlag GmbH}, address = {Berlin}, keywords = {analysis, computer coding, DocuScope, genre, heurisitcs, rhetoric, text, visualization}, author = {Kaufer, David and Geisler, Cheryl and Ishizaki, Suguru and Vlachos, Pantelis}, editor = {Cai, Yang} } @conference {847, title = {The Convergence of Real Space and Hyperspace: Preflections on Mobility, Localization, and Multimodality}, booktitle = {World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications}, year = {2007}, month = {2007}, pages = {1423{\textendash}1429}, publisher = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education}, organization = {Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education}, address = {Vancouver, CA}, keywords = {cartography, encyclopedia, invention, meaningware, rhetoric}, author = {Liest{\o}l, Gunnar} } @inbook {878, title = {Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere}, booktitle = {Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre}, year = {2009}, month = {2009}, pages = {263{\textendash}290}, publisher = {John Benjamins}, organization = {John Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam}, abstract = {

The blog illustrates well the constant change that characterizes electronic media. With a rapidity equal to that of their initial adoption, blogs became not a single genre but a multiplicity. To explore the relationship between the centrifugal forces of change and the centripetal tendencies of recurrence and typification, we extend our earlier study of personal blogs with a contrasting study of the kairos, technological affordances, rhetorical features, and exigence for what we call public affairs blogs. At the same time, we explore the relationship between genre and medium, examining genre evolution in the context of changing technological affordances. We conclude that genre and medium must be distinguished and that the aesthetic satisfactions of genre help account for recurrence in an environment of change.

}, keywords = {aesthetic, blog, change, digital, exigence, genre, media, medium, rhetoric, stability}, author = {Miller, Carolyn R. and Shepherd, Dawn}, editor = {Giltrow, Janet and Stein, Dieter} } @inbook {1420, title = {Discourse Genres}, booktitle = {Verbal Communication}, series = {Handbooks of Communication Science}, year = {2016}, pages = {269{\textendash}286}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, abstract = {

Genre marks large-scale repeated patterns of meaning in human symbolic production and interaction. Approaches to genre can be divided into the formalistthematic, attending to categories and discriminations based on linguistic or textual elements and drawing from cognitive theories; and the pragmatic, attending primarily to use-patterns drawing from social theories of function, action, and communal interaction. This overview draws from disciplines explicitly concerned with natural language, including literature, rhetoric, and several areas of linguistics. A distinction between rational and empirical approaches to genre affects both how genre is conceived and what methods are used for analysis. The rational approach grounds genre in a principle or theory determined by the theorist, yielding a relatively small, closed set of genres; the empirical grounds genre in the experience of those for whom genres are significant, yielding an historically changing, open set of genres. Genre analysis is applied in many discourse disciplines and for a variety of purposes, both descriptive and prescriptive.

}, keywords = {exigence, formalism, genre awareness, genre system, macrostructure, move analysis, rhetoric, social action, Text type, uptake, utterance}, isbn = {9783110255478}, doi = {10.1515/9783110255478-015}, url = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110255478/9783110255478-015/9783110255478-015.xml}, author = {Miller, Carolyn R. and Kelly, Ashley R.}, editor = {A. Rocci and L. de Saussure} } @article {944, title = {Genre Theory, Health-Care Discourse, and Professional Identity Formation}, journal = {Journal of Business and Technical Communication}, volume = {19}, year = {2005}, note = {+ j}, month = {2005}, pages = {249{\textendash}278}, keywords = {genre, health care, identity, midwifery, rhetoric}, author = {Schryer, Catherine F. and Spoel, Philippa} } @article {955, title = {Rhetorical Organization of Chairmen{\textquoteright}s Statements}, journal = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics}, volume = {6}, year = {1996}, month = {1996}, pages = {43{\textendash}63}, abstract = {J. M. Swales{\textquoteright}s move-step approach (eg, 1981) to research article introductions is applied to the rhetorical organization of chairmen{\textquoteright}s statements in annual reports by British companies, drawing on 95 such documents obtained from 93 companies. The proposed relationships \& confidence model suggests that these reports make three moves in their introductions: establishing relationships between the chairman, the company, \& the readers; maintaining confidence; \& reinforcing relationships already established. These moves are described as rhetorical strategies designed to achieve \& enhance a particular image of the chairman \& the company. It is suggested that the move-step method might be useful for raising the genre awareness of English for specific purpose (ESP) students \& for improving ESP courses.}, keywords = {annual report, business, introduction, rhetoric, Swales}, author = {Skulstad, Aud Solbj{\o}rd} } @article {1390, title = {Genre Theory for Product Instructions and Warnings}, journal = {Washburn Law Journal}, volume = {54}, year = {2015}, pages = {303-328}, keywords = {genre, instructions, product liability, rhetoric, warnings}, url = {http://contentdm.washburnlaw.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wlj/id/6490}, author = {Jeff Todd} } @article {996, title = {Style, Rhetoric, and Postmodern Culture}, journal = {Philosophy and Rhetoric}, volume = {35}, year = {2002}, note = {+ pdf rhet}, month = {2002}, pages = {223{\textendash}243}, keywords = {aesthetic, agency, communitarian, democratic, genre, Hariman, Maffesoli, rhetoric, self, sociopolitical, style}, author = {Vivian, Bradford} } @book {1009, title = {Writing Power: Communication in an Engineering Center}, year = {2003}, note = {+}, month = {2003}, publisher = {State University of New York Press}, organization = {State University of New York Press}, address = {Albany, NY}, keywords = {capital, engineering, genre, knowledge, power, rhetoric, text}, isbn = {0-7914-5758-3}, author = {Winsor, Dorothy A.} }