Genre and Institutions: Social Processes in the Workplace and School

by Frances Christie and J.R. Martin

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people's subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged ways of building means in a culture. The book's particular claim to originality is that, using systemic functional grammar, it demonstrates how given genres build or enact social practice, how educational setting provide contexts in which some apprenticeship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826478697
• ISBN13: 9780826478696
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"