Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/culture/power

by Carol Berkenkotter and Thomas N. Huckin

Book Overview

Although genre studies abound in literary criticism, researchers and scholars interested in the social contexts of literacy have recently become interested in the dynamic, rhetorical dimensions of speech genres. Within this burgeoning scholarly community, the authors are among the first researchers working within social science traditions to study genre from the perspective of the implicit knowledge of language users. Thus, this is the first sociocognitive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805816127
• ISBN13: 9780805816129
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"