Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

Miller, Christopher L.

doi:10.31468/cjsdwr.843

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“…In Freadman (2020) she critiques what she considers as square (closed) use of the concept system. Here I find both Miller's and Auken's comments appropriate (Miller, 2020;Auken, 2020). In line with them I think most users and interpreters ('scholars') in 2020 see genre systems as partly open, as general, as local etc., as systemic (Ongstad, 2019).…”

Section: Ending Speech Will (By Which Intention As Aspect Contributes To Wholeness)mentioning

confidence: 57%

“…A wide, 'careful', or open interpretation of exigence or exigency could be something that prompt a rhetor to act discursively, in other words coming close to purpose and/or intention, a reason for verbal action. In Miller's terms it could be said to provide rhetors with socially recognizable ways to make their intentions known, creating rhetorical situations (Miller, 2020). Vatz (1973) claims that exigence rather is socially constructed and that rhetoric itself generates an exigence or rhetorical situation ('The Myth of the Rhetorical Situation').…”

Section: Genre Fields 'Going General'?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research?

Ongstad

2021

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Abstract The article comments upon a special issue on genre in cjsdw, focusing what may be key components or constituents of genre as a general concept. The search for key aspects in these texts are seen in the light of descriptions of genre from the 1980s by Frow (1980), Miller (1984), Bakhtin (1986), and Freadman (1987). Three issues are covered, aspects, levels, and processes, and in addition the challenge of applying concepts coined in a (sub-)field when discussing genre as an overarching, interdisciplinary, semiotic concept. The inquiry leads up to five constitutive aspects, form, content, act, time, and space. It is argued that this set defines the levels utterance and genre. Different processes are discussed. The article ends modelling aspects, levels, and processes in a basic conceptual framework.

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Section: Ending Speech Will (By Which Intention As Aspect Contributes To Wholeness)mentioning

confidence: 57%

Section: Genre Fields 'Going General'?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research?

Ongstad

2021

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“…In other respects, my use of the term rhetorical action is meant to emphasize precisely what some genre researchers emphasize about the rhetoric of the texts and utterances they study (Bawarshi & Reiff, 2010; Bazerman, 1994/2019; Freadman, 2012, 2020; Giltrow, 2020; Miller, 1984, 2015a, 2015b; 2020; Swales, 1990, 2004): that is, their motivated, active character, and their interactive, dialogic responsiveness (as following Bakhtin, 1986) to situation and to potential uptake. Literary research articles claim a desire to be taken up, by their disciplinary community, as achieving something particular by way of writing.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Special Topoi and Rhetorical Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Freadman (2020) critiques the idea that a definitional exigence could reoccur across instances of genre, preferring to emphasize the specificities of local situations. And in a response to Freadman, while insisting that we perceive exigence as recurring across instances, Miller (2020) offers an example of how multiple different genres might function in one text or even in one composite genre (p. 138). So while I offer no substantial claim about genre as social action per se, I do propose the value of attending to the rhetorical actions, plural, claimed by users of a community-recognized genre.…”

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Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action

Banting

2022

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This article examines the power of special topoi to characterize the discourse of literary criticism, and through emphasis on rhetorical action, it sheds light on the limitations of topos analysis for characterizing research articles in disciplinary discourse more generally. Using an analytical approach drawn both from studies of topoi in disciplinary discourse and rhetorical genre theory, I examine a representative corpus of 21st-century literary research articles. I find that while most of the special topoi recognized by Fahnestock and Secor and Wilder remain prevalent in recent criticism, contemporary literary critics tend to draw on only a select subset of those topoi when making claims about their rhetorical actions. The topoi they use most often— mistaken-critic and paradigm—help identify the ways knowledge-making work is undertaken in literary criticism, a discipline often considered epideictic rather than epistemic. But what the special topoi do not capture is precisely the distinctly motivated, actively epistemic character of this disciplinary rhetoric. Based on these findings, I suggest that special topoi must be seen as functioning in the context of the rhetorical action undertaken by literary research articles. These articles undertake not simply persuasion but the particularly humanistic act I refer to as contributing to scholarly understanding: a rhetorical action worth attending to for scholars of disciplinary discourse, because it is deliberately more concerned with practice than product.

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“…The difference between the three forms of embedded genres, recontextualized, contextualized, and element genres, can be described in their relationship to two of the core concepts of Rhetorical Genre Studies, Carolyn Miller's concept of "Genre as Social Action" (1984) and Anne Freadman's "uptake" (1994,2002). See also the discussion between the two in Freadman (2020), andMiller (2020).…”

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Embedded Genres

Auken

2021

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The concept of the embedded genre is of crucial importance if we want to understand the way genres interact, within any given text, within any given genre, and in forming larger genre patterns. By discussing a tentative distinction between three kinds of embedding, “recontextualized embedding” (from Bakhtin), “contextualized embedding” (from Orlikowski & Yates), and “element genre” (from Swales and Martin), the present study initiates an unraveling of some of the intricacies involved in genre embedding. This demonstrates why genre research as well as studies of written communication can profit from integrating an expanded understanding of genre embedding in its theoretical deliberations and analytical work.

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Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

Cited by 7 publications

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Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research?

Genre Constituents in “Reflections on Genre as Social Action” – in the Light of 1980s’ Genre Research?

Humanistic Knowledge-Making and the Rhetoric of Literary Criticism: Special Topoi Meet Rhetorical Action

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