The Origin of Genres

Todorov, Tzvetan; Berrong, Richard M.

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“…One does not have to buy wholly into stereotypes of the Renaissance as the "birth of the individual" to see that the rhetorical emphasis of the ars dictaminis is ill suited to the fashioning of the constituted self through rhetoric, as even Lionel Cran eld recognized on his way to a lordship. Tzvetan Todorov notes, "a society chooses and codi es the acts that most closely correspond to its ideology", 31 and in this case a shift in ideology required changes in a rhetorical code. A second material reason for the decline of the never particularly robust ars dictaminis in England, one suggested earlier by Martin Camargo, was the explosion of the legal professions in the fteenth century (although I would place the beginning of this phase somewhat earlier than Camargo does).…”

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The Fading Influence of the Medieval Ars Dictaminis in England After 1400

Richardson¹

2001

Rhetorica

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The influence of dictaminal treatises in England was weak throughout the Middle Ages and largely restricted to a limited number of royal clerks and a few academics. Most practitioners were royal chancery clerks who dealt with foreign and ecclesiastical powers. This article focuses chiefly on the use of dictaminal letters by middle class English citizens in the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth centuries. These letters show little significant influence of continental or English dictaminal theory but are chiefly either sprawling news bulletins like the Paston letters or, more commonly, imitations of the royal missives from the Signet or Privy Seal offices. As the fifteenth century ended even these vestigial dictaminal forms were replaced among the middles classes by business formats, such as the letter of credit, although they retained some use among the upper classes into the sixteenth century and in some royal missives into the eighteenth century. The article concludes with suggestions on ways contemporary genre theory might be usefully applied to analyze the rise and decline of the ars dictaminis.

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The Fading Influence of the Medieval Ars Dictaminis in England After 1400

Richardson¹

2001

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“…Así explica Bakhtin (1982 1979) esta dinamicidad: "La riqueza y diversidad de los géneros discursivos es inmensa, porque las posibilidades de la actividad humana son inagotables y porque en cada esfera de la praxis existe todo un repertorio de géneros discursivos que se diferencia y crece a medida de que se desarrolla y se complica la esfera misma." (p. 248) La estabilidad de los géneros es lo que los convierte en modelos de referencia para la producción verbal y en "horizonte de expectativas" para los receptores (Todorov, 1978). Algunos géneros se institucionalizan y adquieren una gran estabilidad: Pensemos, por ejemplo, en los textos jurídicos, o en las cartas comerciales, y en nuestro ámbito en los informes de laboratorio o en las tesis, al menos durante la última mitad del siglo XX.…”

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La escritura académica en la universidad

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Badia

2013

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ResumenEn este texto introductorio del monográfico se definen algunos de los conceptos fundamentales que se relacionan con el constructo de escritura académica. En primer lugar, el concepto de género y su relación con el de sistema de actividad, lo que permite abordar desde un punto de vista dinámico el discurso en los entornos universitarios. A continuación, se discuten las diferentes aportaciones que se han ocupado de la clasificación de los géneros en el ámbito académico universitario lo que permite esbozar una propuesta que sirva de marco integrador para organizar la actividad de escribir y los géneros que se producen en la universidad en esferas discursivas que otorguen sentido y significado a las prácticas de escritura de los estudiantes. En tercer lugar, se ofrecen algunas reflexiones sobre el uso y la enseñanza de los géneros en la docencia universitaria desde la perspectiva apuntada en los apartados anteriores. En la segunda parte del texto se presentan los artículos que forman este monográfico y que ofrecen una panorámica variada y complementaria de las aportaciones actuales en el ámbito de la escritura académica tanto en contextos españoles y latinoamericanos como europeos. A estas aportaciones hay que sumarle la revisión y síntesis de las aproximaciones teóricas, los métodos y los resultados de los movimientos Writing Across Curriculum y Writing In the Disciplines en los EEUU.Palabras clave: escritura académica; Universidad; Educación Superior; géneros; actividad discursiva. AbstractIn this introduction of the Special Issue, some key concepts related to the notion of academic writing are discussed. Firstly, the concept of genre is revised and its relationships with the more broad notion of activity system, which allows for a dynamic approach of discourse and its study in university contexts. Secondly, genre classification proposals in higher education are reviewed and discussed focusing on their contributions and limitations. Based on this review, a new proposal for genre organization is presented, which could act as an integrative framework to organize writing activity and genres in discursive spheres making meaning of the students' writing practices. Thirdly, some recommendations are provided regarding the teaching and learning of writing at university, based on the theoretical perspective developed in previous sections. In the second part of the article, the contributions of the Special Issue are presented. These contributions offer a varied and complementary picture of current

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“…This classification is partly based on the linguistic style of the texts, and partly on the set of expectations set up by the genre (cf. Todorov's (1976) function of genre äs 'horizons of expectations'). Frozen texts may be further divided into two sub-classes.…”

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Themes, hyperthemes and the discourse structure of British legal texts

Kurzon¹

1984

Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse

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Although to a lay person legal texts are notoriously difficult to read, some semblance ofordermay befound, especially in the thematic structure ofsuch texts. Thematic structure here coincides with what has been called in the literature 'thematic progression' or 'theme dynamics\ and refers to the cohesive link sei up by the themes -the initial element or elements -of the component sentences of a text. The predominant type of thematic progression in legal texts involves the hypertheme of the particular text, which is derived from two sources: the sei of expectations produced by the specific genre of text, and the title ofthe text, if there is one. This model is applied to flve British legal texts, each of which represents one particular genre: a will, a deed, a contract, a court order, and a Statute. Since the texts do have a cohesive structure, äs shown by the analysis, it is suggested that other factors lead to difficulties in reading, such äs technical vocabulary and the length of clause andphrase elements.

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The Origin of Genres

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Themes, hyperthemes and the discourse structure of British legal texts

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