Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings

453 Pages·1993·1.63 MB·English

by  V. K. Bhatia

Analysing Genre
Language Use in Professional Settings
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APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE
STUDY
General Editor
Professor Christopher N. Candlin, City University of
Hong Kong
For a complete list of books in the series
See pages xvii and xviii
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ANALYSING GENRE
Language Use in Professional Settings
VIJAY K. BHATIA
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First published 1993 by Pearson Education Limited
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ISBN 13: 978-0-582-08524-4 (pbk)
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bhatia, V. K. (Vijay Kumar), 1942–
Analysing Genre: Language use in Professional
Settings / V. K. Bhatia.
p. cm. — (Applied linguistics and language study)
ISBN 0–582–08524–1
1. Discourse analysis. 2. Language and
languages—Style.
3. Literary form. 4. English language—Study and
teaching.
I. Title. II. Series.
P302.B48 1993
401′.41—dc20 92–30733
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CIP
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Contents
General Editor’s Preface
Preface
Acknowledgements
Series List
Part 1: GENRE ANALYSIS – THEORETICAL
PRELIMINARIES
CHAPTER 1 From description to explanation in
discourse analysis
1.1 Surface-level linguistic description: register analysis
1.2 Functional language description:
grammatical-rhetorical analysis
1.3 Language description as discourse: interactional
analysis
1.4 Language description as explanation: genre analysis
CHAPTER 2 Approach to genre analysis
2.1 Definition
2.2 Function of orientation
2.2.1 Linguistics and genre analysis
2.2.2 Sociology and genre analysis
2.2.3 Psychology and genre analysis
2.3 Analysing unfamiliar genres
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2.4 Cross-cultural factors in genre analysis
2.5 Conclusions – strengths and limitations
Part 2: GENRE ANALYSIS IN ACTION
CHAPTER 3 Product and self promotion in business
settings
3.1 Sales promotion letters
3.1.1 Communicative purpose
3.1.2 Structural description
3.1.3 Flexibility in move-structure
3.2 Job applications
3.3 Cross-cultural variation
3.3.1 Sales promotion letters
3.3.2 Job application letters
3.4 Conclusions
CHAPTER 4 Research genres in academic settings
4.1 Research article abstracts
4.2 Research article introductions
4.3 Form-function correlation and the CARS model
for article introductions
4.4 Introductions in student academic writings
4.4.1 Student laboratory report introductions
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4.4.2 Student dissertation introductions
4.5 Concluding remarks
CHAPTER 5 Legal discourse in professional settings
5.1 Legal language
5.2 Legislative provisions
5.2.1 Communicative purpose
5.2.2 Types of legislative provisions
5.2.3 Syntactic properties of legislative provisions
5.2.4 Cognitive structuring in legislative provisions
5.3 Legal cases
5.3.1 Communicative purpose
5.3.2 Structural interpretation of legal cases
5.4 (Cross-cultural) variation in legal discourse
5.5 Concluding remarks
Part 3: APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 6 From description to explanation in
language teaching
6.1 Genre-based grammatical explanation in ESP
6.2 Genre-based language curriculum
6.3 Text-task relationship in English for legal purposes
6.4 Genre-based ESP materials
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