ENGL292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Metafiction, Petrarchan Sonnet, Justin Trudeau
5 Oct 2016
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A socially standard strategy embodied in a typical form of discourse that has evolved for responding to a recurring type of rhetorical situation. Ways of classifying are not natural but are imposed. Exigence not just an external state of affairs, instead are social knowledge. What recurs is not the material but what construes a classification. Genre can provide a coding template that leads to a temperate for careful reading and writing. Genre provides meta information -> shapes response of an audience. Jack ass 2 -> expect it to be a comedy, walk in and it"s a psychological thriller. Genre knowledge provides meta information for us so we can determine how we"ll respond to certain things. Funeral -> sombre, quiet, don"t expect heavy metal to be played. Genres are socially accepted and recognized because they work. Genre knowledge is drawn from and embedded in our communication experiences. Provide a distinctive profile of regularities across numerous dimensions.
