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ESP SPECIALIST TEXT/ GENRE
ESP Approaches to Genre Analysis
identifying a genre within a discourse community
defining the communicative
purpose the genre
Vijay Bhatia outlines seven steps to analyzing genres
Placing a given genre-text in its situational
context
surveying the existing research on the genre
refining the researcher’s understanding of the genre’s discourse community
the researcher collecting a corpus of the genre
introduces an ethnographic dimension
decision regarding which level of linguistic analysis to explore
seek a specialist informant from the research site to verify findings
Genre and text type
'genre' categorizes texts on the basis of external criteria
describes types of activities
eg: prayers, songs, poems
‘text types’ represent groupings of texts which are similar in linguistic form, irrespective of genre.
eg of text types: problem-solution texts and general-particular texts
Special texts are created in a complex set of communicational factors
Recent development in ESP genre study
focused on issues related to communicative purpose, context, and the dynamic, intertextual nature of genres
Swales examines the use of humor
in dissertation defenses
helps to “lubricate the wheels
of the genre”
enables the participants in the defense to proceed
“in an informal atmosphere of solidarity and cooperation”
Ken Hyland focus on “stance” and “engagement
examines how writers insert their personality into their texts
through the use of hedges, boosters, and attitude markers
how they construct their readers through the use of questions
Ann Johns promoted the idea of students as both genre researchers and
genre theorist
help bridge the gap between what genre researchers know about genres
what student are often taught about genres
Brian Paltridge described the use of ethnography in a writing course for second language graduate students
ESP and critical approach to genre
effective participation within a discourse community requires more than just the ability to follow genre conventions
requires the ability to know why genres and
purposes exist
ESP approaches tend to focus on the teaching of conventionalized lists of genre-identifying features
ESP genre approaches focusing too exclusively on examining target genres
ESP and Rhetorical Genre Studies
both ESP and rhetorical genre scholars acknowledge the dynamic relationship between texts and contexts
both recognize genres as situated rhetorical and linguistic actions
RGS, context provides more than valuable background knowledge regarding
communicative purpose(s), discourse community members, genre nomenclature
ESP genre scholars tend to understand genres as communicative tools situated within
social contexts
rhetorical genre scholars have tended to understand genres as sociological concepts embodying textual
Research articles
E. Pryor (2014)
Genre analysis as developed within SFL provided a valuable framework for this study and was a first step to understanding the telephone interactions
Nurul Raihanah bt Roslan 199925