Genre: Permanence and Change

During the past 30 years, genre conceptualized as social action has been a generative framework for scholars, teachers, and rhetors alike. As a mid-level, mediating concept, genre balances stability and innovation, connecting theory and practice, agency and structure, form and substance. Genre is mu...

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Published in:Rhetoric Society quarterly 2018-05, Vol.48 (3), p.269-277
Main Authors: Miller, Carolyn R., Devitt, Amy J., Gallagher, Victoria J.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Ethics
Genre
Ideology
Interpersonal communication
Mixed methods research
Multidisciplinary practices
Rhetoric
Semiotics
Willingness to communicate
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Summary:During the past 30 years, genre conceptualized as social action has been a generative framework for scholars, teachers, and rhetors alike. As a mid-level, mediating concept, genre balances stability and innovation, connecting theory and practice, agency and structure, form and substance. Genre is multimodal, providing an analytical and explanatory framework across semiotic modes and media and thus across communication technologies; multidisciplinary, of interest across traditions of rhetoric, as well as many other disciplines; multidimensional, incorporating many perspectives on situated, mediated, motivated communicative interaction; and multimethodological, yielding to multiple empirical and interpretive approaches. Because genre both shapes and is shaped by its communities, it provides insight into both ideological conformity and resistance, lends itself to multiple pedagogical agendas, and provokes questions about media, materiality, ethics, circulation, affect, and comparison.
ISSN:0277-3945
1930-322X
DOI:10.1080/02773945.2018.1454194