Genre in Language, Discourse and Cognition / / ed. by Ninke Stukker, Wilbert Spooren, Gerard Steen.

The study of genre is scattered across research disciplines. This volume offers an integrative perspective starting from the assumption that genres are cognitive constructs, recognized, maintained and employed by members of a given discourse community. Its central questions are: What does genre know...

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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 429 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgment of reviewers
  • Genre in Language, Discourse and Cognition: Introduction to the volume
  • I. Genre in Language
  • On the subjectivity of Mandarin reason connectives: Robust profiles or genre-sensitivity?
  • The influence of genre on the processing of objective and subjective causal relations: Evidence from eye-tracking
  • The expressive potential of the Dutch Simple Present tense across narrative genres
  • Linguistic, social and communicative aspects in Early Modern English medical writing: ‘This dissease is very soone ended’
  • Informalization in Dutch journalistic subgenres over time
  • II. Genre in Discourse
  • Argumentative writing in assessment and instruction: A comparative perspective
  • Genre in a functional cognitive framework: Medical recipe as a genre in 16th and 17th century Hungarian
  • Genre “out of the box”: A conceptual integration analysis of poetic discourse
  • Negotiating Genres in Managalase (PNG) Political Discourse
  • Genres and online newspapers: Newsbites from a socio-cognitive perspective
  • III. Genre in Cognition
  • A triple-frame model of genre: Framing for discourse sequencing
  • ‘Genre knowledge’ in a constructional framework: Lexis, grammar and perspective in folk tales
  • The Party Conference Speech as a genre event: A multimodal approach
  • Making sense of a generic label: A study of genre (re)cognition among novice genre analysts
  • Subject index