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Genre as social action
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This essay proposes a conception of genre based on conventionalized social motives which are found in recurrent situation‐types. The thesis is that genre must be conceived in terms of rhetorical action rather than substance or form.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Miller, C. R.
- Affiliations
- North Carolina State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Miller, Carolyn R.
- ORCID
- Miller, Carolyn R.
- Venue
- Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1984-05
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 151-167
- ISSN
- 0033-5630 (ISSN-L)
- 1479-5779
- OpenAlex
- W2037193028
- Cited by
- 2,907
- References
- 52
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 20.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Quarterly Journal of Speech (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
- Social Sciences › Communication › Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Keywords
- genre, social motives, situation types, rhetorical action, genre theory, social action
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