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Jasinski, James. Sourcebook on Rhetoric: Key Concepts in Contemporary Rhetorical Studies. Sage Publications Inc, 2001. 153-155.
“We identified genres by their socially recognized purpose and by their common characteristics of form. The purpose of a genre is not an individual’s private motive for communicating, but a purpose socially constructed and recognized by the relevant organizational community for typical situations…Form refers to observable aspects of the communication, such as medium (e.g., pen and paper, telephone, or face-to-face), structural features (e.g., text formatting devices such as lists and structured fields), and linguistic features (including level of formality, specialized vocabulary, or graphic devices)…While the concept of genre has a long tradition in rhetorical and literary analysis (Bakhtin, 1986), a number of researchers in cultural, rhetorical, and system design studies have recently begun using it to refer to typified social action (Bazerman, 1988; Berkenkotter & Huckin, 1995; Brown & Duguid, 1991; Miller, 1984; Reder & Schwab, 1988),” (p. 14, boldface mine).
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Classification tags: Characterization: genre; Definition: genre
