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ESP Specialist Text and Genre, Marina Binti Mahani (199855) - Coggle…
ESP Specialist Text and Genre
Approach to text analysis
start from early register analysis
to rhetorical analysis
to functional/notional approach
to dominant approach
Genre
staged, goal-oriented, purposeful activity where speakers engage as members of culture
Example
Poems
Narratives
Lectures
Manuals
Homely genre
Recipe
Advertisement
Speeches
represents a class of communicative events that has formed in response to some shared set of communicative purposes
Text used in
academic writing
business
professional activity
Text type
represents grouping of texts which are similar in linguistic form and irrespective of genre
Example
Procedure
Description
Report
Review
Genre analysis
6 characteristics of discourse community (Swales)
has a set of common public goals
has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
membership within discourse community depends on individuals
utilizes and possesses one or more genres in the communicative
has acquired some specific lexis
has threshold level of members with suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise
ESP approaches to genre analysis
identify a genre within discourse community
define communicative purpose
the process tended to move from context to text
7 steps to analyse genre
Placing a given genre-text in its situational context
Surveying existing research on genre
Refining researcher's understanding of the genre's discourse community
Collecting a corpus of the genre
Introduce an ethnographic dimension
From context to text; involves the decision regarding which level of linguistics analysis to explore
Seek specialist informant from the research site to verify findings
3 keys/concepts to genre study
Discourse community
Communicative purpose
Genre
Creating a Research Space model (CARS model)
Moves for introduction and steps for each move
Move 1 (Establishing a territory)
claiming centrality
reviewing item of previous research
Move 2 (Establishing a niche)
counter-claiming
indicating a gap
Move 3 (Occupying the niche)
outlining purpose
announce principle finding
indicate research article structure
Marina Binti Mahani (199855)