What is Genre? Genre text
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The term genre is
concerned with the overall purpose of a text. Genres are defined as social
processes which are goal oriented and which achieve their purposes in steps
or stages. To describe a genre, we need
to describe the form of texts of the genre; the context in which the genre is
relevant, in which participants may use the genre to organize, expain what they
ae doing and why; the activities by which people create and share the knowledge
required to produce text in genre; how the genre works in interaction; how
people draw on the generic conventions in creating new text, how they use the
genre to categorize situations, how the genre serves to maintain the status quo
and or make change possible.
According to
Paltridge (2000: 107), genre is culture, specific and has particular purposes,
stages and linguistics features assosiated with them, the meaning of which need
to be interpreted in ralation to the cultural social contexts in which they
occur.
Genre is a social
process because members of culture interact to achieve them, they are
goal-oriented because they have evolved to achieve things, they are staged
because meanings are made in steps and it usually takes writers more than one
sep to reach their goal (Hyland, 2004: 2004 ).
In learning alanguage(English), or in producing certain text, one is always involved with
contexts, both of context of culture and context of situation. Language lives
in a certain culture, so, if one want to learn English,
he or she must learn the culture of it. The following scheme is the description
of the relationship between context and text.
Genre text |
According to the scheme above, it can
be explained that the context of culture and situation influences people to
produce text or language. When producing a text, one is involved with the
context of situation, so it influences him to choose the appropriate way of
using the language; Field is the topic talked, Tenor is the interpersonal
relationship between the language users, Mode is the communication’s way being
used, either spoken or written communication. Shortly, text/language is the
product of the context of culture and situation.
In the correlation between genre and
register, based on the scheme above, the writer can give an example as follows:
Field :
Economy: motorcycles
Tenor :
buyer and seller
Mode :
face-to-face (oral communication)
It explains that the topic is about the
transactional activity of buying and selling motorcycles, the language users
are between buyer and seller. They use oral communication (face to face).
Nice. It is similar with my subject at campus :)
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