“Where Do Genres Come From?”

Miller, Christopher L.

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“…Bazerman, 1994;Paré, 2002;Schryer, 1993;Winsor, 2000), and consequently, RGS theory is mostly informed by these types of genres. In a recent review of the types of genres studied within RGS, Miller (2017) (Miller, 2017, p. 24). The institutional genres are similar to the administered genres, but their regulations are more implicit because they are based on traditions and (sometimes strong) social conventions.…”

Section: Threats As An Illicit Genrementioning

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Illicit Genres: The Case of Threatening Communications

Bojsen-Møller¹,

Auken

Devitt

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ResuméDenne artikel anlaegger et nyt perspektiv på studiet af sproglige trusler ved at argumentere for at de kan karakteriseres som en genre -en genre der generelt giver staerke konnotationer til intimidering, frygt, aggression, magt og tvang.Vi kombinerer Retoriske Genrestudiers (RGS') teoretiske ramme med resultater fra teoretiske og empiriske analyser af trusler for at nå frem til en mere nuanceret og fyldestgørende forståelse af trusler. Sproglige trusler er som udgangspunkt ikke at finde i gaengse oversigter over genrer, og man laerer heller ikke om dem i skolen. Derfor designede vi et spørgeskema der skulle teste hvor genkendelige trusler egentlig er. Selvom trusselsforskere rapporterer at trusler har en bemaerkelsesvaerdig variation i deres formmaessige og kontekstuelle traek, kategoriserede størstedelen af vores respondenter testemnerne som trusler, på trods af at de ikke fik praesenteret nogen tekstuel, kontekstuel eller layoutmaessig ramme for fortolkningen.Dette indikerer at truslen er en genkendelig genre. Vi argumenterer for at truslen hører under en bredere kategori af illegitime genrer: genrer der generelt set har skadelige eller ubehagelige konsekvenser for samfundet, og som almindeligvis påvirker deres ofre negativt. Den måde illegitime genrer tages op på i samfundet, deres uptake, adskiller sig meget fra hvordan andre genrer tages op. De der benytter illegitime genrer, undgår ofte aktivt at navngive dem, hvilket indebaerer at de grupper der reagerer på illegitime genrer, på ganske betydelig vis er med til at definere dem. Dette studie bidrager til forskning i sproglige trusler, idet genreteori kaster lys over vigtige situationelle faktorer der påvirker fortolkningen af en tekst som en trusseldette er et saerligt omstridt spørgsmål i forhold til trusler der er indirekte formuleret. Studiet bidrager også til genreteori ved at pege på et nyt område genreforskere kan undersøge, nemlig illegitime genrer. Undersøgelser af illegitime genrer har også bredere samfundsmaessig relevans da de belyser forskellige slags problematisk, retorisk opførsel der kan have destruktive 2020 © Sakprosa Bind 12, Nr. 1 M. Bojsen-Møller, S. Auken, A. J. Devitt & T. K. Christensen 3 / 53 Sakprosa.no konsekvenser for det enkelte menneske og for den demokratiske samfundsorden bredt set. AbstractThis study takes a novel approach to the study of threatening communications by arguing that they can be characterized as a genre -a genre that generally carries strong connotations of intimidation, fear, aggression, power, and coercion. We combine the theoretical framework of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) with results from theoretical and empirical analyses of threats to arrive at a more comprehensive perspective of threats. Since threats do not form part of any regular curriculum of genres, we designed a survey to test how recognizable they are. While scholars on threats describe threatening communications as remarkably varied in form and contextual features, the majority of our respondents categorized test items as threats without ...

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Section: Threats As An Illicit Genrementioning

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Illicit Genres: The Case of Threatening Communications

Bojsen-Møller¹,

Auken

Devitt

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“…We can see a similar idea in more recent work by Miller (2017), where she uses the vocabulary of "domains" and "communities of use" in her discussion of the emergence of new genres. She delineates four categories of "domains in which genres operate" (p. 25).…”

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“…In this connection, I note that Miller (2017) acknowledges the distinction between "the situation or setting, the rhetorical exigence or function being served, and the way(s) that genres are taken up (or not)" (p. 23). Indeed, she distinguishes between exigence and purpose:…”

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A Tardy Uptake

Freadman

2020

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Following Carolyn Miller’s (1984) definition of genre as social action, subsequent work in the field of rhetorical genre theory has focused on two aspects of her account. The first is the claim that “a genre is a rhetorical means for mediating private intention and social exigence” (Miller, 1984, p. 163). The site of this mediation is now referred to as the subject—a term that is imported from psychoanalysis and critical social theory. I am concerned that the theoretical freight carried by this term—with its claim to address the “big questions” of subjectivity—diverts us from our focus on “how the genre works as rhetorical action” (Miller, 1984, p. 159). I shall replace the subject with the agent, moving then to argue that bringing uptake to bear on agency helps shift the debate to a more strictly rhetorical terrain. The second aspect that has been focused on is exigence: the “social motive” of rhetorical action, “an objectified social need” lying at “the core of situation” (Miller, 1984, pp. 158, 157). I consider an ambiguity at the heart of this concept of exigence between the work it does in accounting for punctual rhetorical action—the genre in actu—and its work in generalizing over some genre in virtu. Because of this, I move to replace exigence with alternative ways of conceiving the site of rhetorical action. Throughout, I accept broadly the framework of Rhetorical Genre Studies. While I seek to solve the problems through a rigorous reliance on rhetoric, I move beyond this frame when I discuss the restrictions on a theory of genre imposed by an exclusive assumption of verbal or discursive acts.

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“…But if I have learned anything about genres in the past few decades it is that cultural categories such as these are not systematic or systematizable; not only do they change over time and with usage but even in any instant they do not form any coherent structure because they arise in situations that are themselves in flux, within communities that overlap, and from histories that differ. 2 This is particularly true with what I have called "vernacular genres," such as those created by voluntary communities of use in internet environments, but it is also largely true in more regulated environments such as corporations, schools, and other institutions (Miller, 2017), which also have their complex histories, interests, and shifting loci of power.…”

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“…Bakhtin uses "spheres of activity" (Bakhtin, 1986, p. 60 and passim). I have used domains and communities of use (Miller, 2017). Freadman (2020) uses jurisdiction here again (p. 124), the term she also uses in place of exigence-as-function, revealing how closely she ties function to the regulating social sphere.…”

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Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

Miller

2020

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Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the developing RGS tradition. She has done me the honour of reading my work thoroughly and carefully, more carefully in some cases than I wrote it. She has taken up Rhetorical Genre Studies in her own way and given us much in return. And in response, I feel … well … compelled to reply, to take up the conversation, to add to the chain of semiosis.

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“Where Do Genres Come From?”

Cited by 25 publications

References 45 publications

Illicit Genres: The Case of Threatening Communications

Illicit Genres: The Case of Threatening Communications

A Tardy Uptake

Exercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman

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