Cited by 2,907Linguistics and Discourse AnalysisRhetoric and Communication StudiesDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 52 of the 52 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Genre as social action

Miller, Carolyn R.·1984·Quarterly Journal of Speech

Abstract

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.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1080/00335638409383686

Cites

52 of 52 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Citations

Cites

Show all 52 references

Research works printed but not linked: 6

  1. Brooks , Cleanth and Warren , Robert Penn . 1979 . Modern Rhetoric, , 4th ed. , 40 New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich .
  2. 1980 . Macrostructures , Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum .
  3. Bitzer , Lloyd F. 1980 . “Functional Communication: A Situational Perspective” . In Rhetoric in Transition , Edited by: White , Eugene E. University Park, PA : Pennsylvania State University Press .
  4. Burke , Kenneth . 1965 . Permanance and Change , 35 Indianapolis, IN : Bobbs‐Merrill .
  5. Burke , Kenneth . 1968 . Counter‐Statement , 124 Berkeley : University of California Press .
  6. Downey , Sharon D. 1982 . “The Evolution of Rhetorical Genres” . Paper presented at the Speech Communication Association . 1982 , Louisville, Kentucky.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 701–800 of 1,003

Metadata

Authors
Miller, C. R.
Affiliations
North Carolina State University (US)
Corresponding author
Miller, Carolyn R.
Venue
Quarterly Journal of Speech
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
2026: 90 · 2025: 91 · 2024: 92 · 2023: 116 · 2022: 140 · 2021: 122 · 2020: 180 · 2019: 121 · 2018: 133 · 2017: 152 · 2016: 144 · 2015: 166 · 2014: 171 · 2013: 116 · 2012: 129
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

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review