Genre and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School

by Frances Christie and J.R. Martin

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This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture. The book's particular claim to originality is that, using systemic functional grammar, it demonstrates how given genres build or enact social practice, how educational setting provide contexts in which some apprenticeship...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0826478697

ISBN13:9780826478696

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:Continuum

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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Education Education & Reference Language Arts

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