WRIT 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intertextuality, Kenneth Burke, Charles Bazerman
11 Oct 2017
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Genre: three theories of written language, prescriptivist view of genre (taxonomy-system of classification) Prescriptivists emphasize such characteristics as subject matter, purpose, from, arrangement, style, formality of language, tone, visual appearance, beginnings, titles. Genre is based on a combination of the form the text takes, that is the particular arrangement of the parts, and the subject matter of the text. These consistent structural features constitute the basis for classifying texts: psycholinguistic view of genre. Interested in the individual relationship between the writer and the reader. Genre is like a contract between the writer and the reader and they agree together what elements should appear in the text. By mutually agreeing to these elements of the text they are more likely to make meaning from the text in a similar way. If started with the same schematic genre expectation writer & reader will arrive a similar understanding.
