Genre Systems at Work: DSM-IV and Rhetorical Recontextualization in Psychotherapy Paperwork

In this article, I describe four interrelated analytical concepts useful for studying the discursive practices of professional writers: intertextuality, interdiscursivity, genre systems, and recontextualization. Drawing on structuration theory and neo-Vygotskyan activity theory to provide a framewor...

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Published in:Written communication 2001-07, Vol.18 (3), p.326-349
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Business writing
Case Records
Ethnography
Flow Charts
Mental Disorders
Mental Health
Modeling (Psychology)
Paperwork
Psychiatry
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Structure
Speech
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