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unit 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - relatively stable configuration of content, format and style
        
        set of conventions that guide text producers
        
        not fixed, frames of reference
        
        set of expectations and possibilities
        
        culture-bound
        
        we are socialized into
        
        and emerge under certain cultural /material /historical conditions
        
        conventionalized, flexible and open ended
        
        text producers as agents who make choices
        
        text that belongs to a genre can incorporate elements from another genre
        
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        but conditioned by position that they occupy in society
        
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        guiding framework
      - makes available roles
        
        subject positions
        
        but also specific for each text
      - Intertextual Gap
        
        distance between two texts
        
        short if two are typical, big is one is atypical
        
        atypical = marginal
        
        marginal genres can also strengthen subject position of prestigious text producer
        
        ≠ prototypical
        
        closure
        
        when a text doesn't enable alternative interpretations
        
        some genres have a low degree of closure
      - ecology of genres
        
        in a community genres are interrelated
        
        competition/conflict and complementation
      - genre vs. text type
        
        text type: related to inherent linguistic properties of texts; set of characteristics inherent to texts; involves fixed schema; abstracted from context; no association with texts or activities
        
        genre: not a property but a set of social resources; involves linguistic and non linguistic aspects; defined by social aspects; connected to social practices; culture bound, specific to a community and certain historical conditions; associated with certain instituttions
      - embedding genre
    - - Coherent
      - Cohesive
      - influenced/shaped by speech event, genre, institution and discourses (in inst e.g.)
    - - types
        
        vertical
        
        text as member of one category
        
        horizontal and (temporal) sequential
      - discursive phenomenon
    - - Discourse Representation
        
        direct
        
        may have characterization effect
        
        claim that is faithfully representing what was said
        
        through quotative formulas, prosodic features, etc
        
        indirect
        
        idea is being represented
        
        paraphrasing or using "indirect reported speech"
        
        free
        
        e.g. present simple
        
        but it is also manifestation of intertextuality
        
        relationship constructed betw quoter and quotee
        
        convergence
        
        divergence
        
        distance, rejection, challenge
        
        (they have effects)
      - Allusion
      - Negation
      - responding to a text, aticipating future texts
    - - voices
    - - diff discourses, styles
  - - - textual subjects
        
        protagonist and antagonist
      - elements
        
        characters, conflict (struggle/clash) and events in chronological sequence
        
        events which denote actions by agents
        
        storyteller (concrete in interaction) vs narrator (voice)
        
        co-participants are important in the construction of the story, they shape the story as well
        
        conflict: a clash between.../ x vs x
        
        events are punctual, past and nor virtual
      - structural sections
        
        (abstract)
        
        orientation (beginning)
        
        locatives, continuous aspect, clauses of time, have, be
        
        complicating action
        
        when story starts
        
        The actionsare past, discrete actions (i.e. punctual actions that have a clear beginning and end)
        
        (evaluation)
        
        resolution
        
        (coda)
        
        bridge between the world of the story and the current interaction
      - genres
        
        story of personal experience
        
        narrative discourse mode is predominant
        
        narrative about hypothetical events
        
        -may have evaluative function- -may function be used to back a claim, give evidence -
        
        exhibit a low degree of narrativity
        
        perform ANALOGY and OPPOSITION relationship
        
        narrative about habitual event
      - (sequence exhibits) tellability
      - evaluative elements
        
        express assessment, appreciation, appraisal of sth in the story
        
        resources
        
        adj, adv, N, V, conterfactual constructions, DR, prosody, performance features, rhetorical resources
        
        texts are co-constructed: importance of audience
        
        adding details/ evaluating
    - - textual subjects
        
        proponent and opponent
      - Argument
        
        thesis /claim / argumentative position
        
        ≠ stance (for, against sth)
        
        which projects image for oneself as ...
        
        a level in which identity is constructed
        
        it is a proposition defended by a proponent
        
        assumption
        
        if you accept them, you'll likely accept thesis
        
        support
        
        texts don't have them, a text produces does
      - Argumentative moves
        
        cause-consequence
        
        if
        
        when
        
        because
        
        analogy
        
        concession
        
        even if
        
        but
        
        circle connectors
        
        remember to mention propositions, relationship btw them and with what it is indicated
  - - - animator
        
        who physically enunciates
      - principal
        
        responsible of content, on behalf
      - composer
        
        makes decisions as how is to be said
      - spokesperson
        
        who enunciates for sm else
      - (text producer)
      - originator of content?