Sketches of theories of genre

Hauptmeier, Helmut

doi:10.1016/0304-422x(87)90029-5

“…The traditional and still normative view, as portrayed by Rosmarin (1985; see also Altman, 1999;Benoit, 2000;Hauptmeier, 1987;Leitch, 1991), sees genres as entirely separable, mutually exclusive entities, whether they are more specifically conceived as natural species or their associated genetic codes (see Conley, 1986, for a review and demonstration of the truly traditional character of this perspective), social institutions (or ritually produced actions fitted to recurrent rhetorical situations-see Benoit, 2000;Hauptmeier, 1987;and Leitch, 1991, for partial reviews, and C. R. Miller, 1984, for a prominent example), psychological categories created for literary interpretation or composition (e.g., Swales, 1990), or Aristotelian natural kinds. 4 Further, this view portrays genres as possessing texts in an exclusive fashion; hence, even in the case of those espousing a genetic theory of genre (e.g., Jamieson, 1973) or those advocating cognitive prototype theory of genre (e.g., Fishelov, 1991;Swales, 1990), traditional scholars posit that texts that possess (enough of) certain features belong to one and only one genre (see also Gerhart, 1989).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Classifying Communibiology's Texts: Implications for Genre Theory

Nelson

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2004

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One can categorize communibiological texts as interdisciplinary inspirational texts. However, one can classify these texts differently with equal plausibility by attending to aspects of the social psychology and economic conditions of current science that are rarely considered by most rhetoricians of science and attending to 2 significant rhetorical requirements of successful scientific texts-programmaticality and interestingness-that have gone unnoticed by rhetoricians of science to date. Given this equality of categorization plausibility, traditional genre theories are contradicted. More significantly, through the author's provision of a reflexive analysis, pragmatist genre theory is supported and extended. Thus, this article contributes to genre theory and the rhetoric of science.

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“…The traditional and still normative view, as portrayed by Rosmarin (1985; see also Altman, 1999;Benoit, 2000;Hauptmeier, 1987;Leitch, 1991), sees genres as entirely separable, mutually exclusive entities, whether they are more specifically conceived as natural species or their associated genetic codes (see Conley, 1986, for a review and demonstration of the truly traditional character of this perspective), social institutions (or ritually produced actions fitted to recurrent rhetorical situations-see Benoit, 2000;Hauptmeier, 1987;and Leitch, 1991, for partial reviews, and C. R. Miller, 1984, for a prominent example), psychological categories created for literary interpretation or composition (e.g., Swales, 1990), or Aristotelian natural kinds. 4 Further, this view portrays genres as possessing texts in an exclusive fashion; hence, even in the case of those espousing a genetic theory of genre (e.g., Jamieson, 1973) or those advocating cognitive prototype theory of genre (e.g., Fishelov, 1991;Swales, 1990), traditional scholars posit that texts that possess (enough of) certain features belong to one and only one genre (see also Gerhart, 1989).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Classifying Communibiology's Texts: Implications for Genre Theory

Nelson

¹

2004

Communication Theory

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One can categorize communibiological texts as interdisciplinary inspirational texts. However, one can classify these texts differently with equal plausibility by attending to aspects of the social psychology and economic conditions of current science that are rarely considered by most rhetoricians of science and attending to 2 significant rhetorical requirements of successful scientific texts-programmaticality and interestingness-that have gone unnoticed by rhetoricians of science to date. Given this equality of categorization plausibility, traditional genre theories are contradicted. More significantly, through the author's provision of a reflexive analysis, pragmatist genre theory is supported and extended. Thus, this article contributes to genre theory and the rhetoric of science.

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“…Our discourse community of scientists, for example, is centralized around the article, but participates in other genres, including abstracts, conference presentations, seminars, theses, and dissertations, and so on. Moreover, the discourse community's genres tell us something about the shared values of that community, about its "norms, epistemology, ideology, and social ontology" (Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1993, 475; for a primer on theories of genre see: Hauptmeier, 1987;Hyon, 1996;Campbell, 2009;Miller and Kelly, forthcoming). So, our argument suggests that genres can tell us something about newly emerging communities of scientists and citizens at work on scientific research problems.…”

Section: Approach: Tracing Texts Through Genres and Inscriptionsmentioning

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Harnessing Agency for Efficacy: “Foldit” and Citizen Science

Kelly

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Maddalena

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2015

Poroi

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One of the most challenging problems in microbiology today is predicting the structure of operation of a cell and serve numerous critical functions such as breaking down starches in food for energy our blood. Inside a living cell, protein functions (be they enzymes, antibodies, or code RNA) are determined largely by their structural arrangements: their size, shape, and the reactivity of molecules on the outside of the structures. Single proteins, however, can contain thousands of individual amino acids in different combinations and configurations. The entire field of structural microbiology is dedicated to discovering structures and their related functions. And the field has recently grown branches, one of which concerns protein design. Rather scientists design protein structures with amino acids. Protein design depends mostly on (1) the amino acid sequence of a protein and (2) the way that the chain is "folded" into itself and connected to other proteins. While researchers understand the importance of these elements, no easy way to predict a structure currently exists. Protein designers often use computer visualization tools to manipulate virtual proteins. probabilistically fold proteins into as many variations as possible, but the automated approach is unwieldy because of the multiplicity of moving parts and possible combinations. Moreover, it is difficult

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Sketches of theories of genre

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Classifying Communibiology's Texts: Implications for Genre Theory

Classifying Communibiology's Texts: Implications for Genre Theory

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