1. 07132040 PELİN YAĞMUR ATAŞ 07132006 MEHMET ÖZDEMİR

2. DISCOURSE AND GENRE Richards and Schmidt define the term genre as: « a type of discourse that occurs in a particular setting, that has distinctive and recognizable patterns and norms of organization and structure and that has particular and distinctive communicative functions».

3. There has been increased attention given to the notion of genre in discourse studies as well as in the area of language teaching and learning. The approach to genre analysis commonly applied in the teaching of English for specific purposes is based on Swales (1981, 1990) analyses of the discourse structure of research introductions.

4. WHAT IS GENRE? Genres are ways in which people ‘get things done’ through their use of spoken and written discourse. In 1990, Swales, the accepted leader in genre and move analysis in the field of ESP, defined a genre as a class of communicative events commonly used by the members of a given community who share some set of communicative purposes.

5. Bloor and Bloor (1993) defined genre as aspecific product of a social practice which can be described and taught because of its formal characteristics. For Miller (1984), genre was a kind of social action which took place in a specific discourse community.

6. Genres change through time. This may, for example, be in response to changes in technologies. Bhatia (1997) says that ‘genre embedding’ refers to where one genre, for example, a letter, a story, is used for another ‘conventionally distinct’ genre, such as an advertisement to sell a product, or a job advertisement.

7. DEFINING GENRE Martin’s (1984:25) defines genre as ‘a staged, goal- oriented, purposeful activity’. Swales (2004: 61) says he prefers the notion of ‘metaphor’ for talking about genres, rather than ‘definition’.

8. CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT IN THE USE OF SPOKEN and WRİTTEN GENRES Genres are dynamic and open to change, but it is not a case of ‘free for all’ or ‘anything goes’. As Devitt (2004: 86) explains, conformity among genre users ‘is a fact of genre, for genres provide an expected way of acting’.

9. ASSIGNING A TEXT TO A GENRE CATEGORY How do we assign a text to a ‘genre category’? The author of the text The intended audience of the text The purpose of the text The situation in which the text occurs The physical form The title of the text The content of the text The level formality of the text Particular uses of language in the text The style or register of the text

10. Genres are most helpfully seen as ‘resources for meaning’ rather than systems of rules’ (Swales 2002: 25)

11. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENRES

12. Genre chains genre networks genre sets repertoires of genres

13. GENRE CHAINS--the linking of genres within and across texts--in order to determine how heritage language writers transfer discursive patterns of cohesion across genres and across languages.

14. ‘giving a lecture in a conference’ Call for papers Submission of abstracts Evaluation of abstracts Submission of the full paper Converting the paper into a power point presentation Presenting the slides Question-answering Publishing the paper in conference proceedings

15. APPLYING FOR A JOB - job advertisement - position description - letter of application - resume - job interview - offer of appointment - negotiation of offer

16. Genre networks is the technical term that describes the source(s) from which each genre originates.

17. sources of information Citations Quotations plagiarism

18. a power point presentation

19. Genre sets The totality of the different genres that one individual or members of a given community (of professionals) engages in is referred to as genre sets

20. Applied linguists Books publish paper give lectures present posters chair conferences supervise theses

21. * Genres never stand in isolation

23. References Genre (20 november 2012). Retrived 21 november 2012 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre Paltridge, B. 2006. Discourse and Genre. Discourse Analysis Salmani, M. A. The place of genre analysis in international communication. Retrived 21 november 2012 from http://www.ijls.net/volumes/volume5issue1/salmani4.pdfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrehttp://www.ijls.net/volumes/volume5issue1/salmani4.pdf