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Miller, Carolyn R. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70.2 (1984): 151-167.
“Genre systems are generally important ways of organizing the temporal, spatial, and social dimensions of interaction. In addition, we believe that genre systems can also be a particularly powerful means of structuring electronic interactions.” p. 14
Citation Link (Yates & Orlikowski)
Classification tags: Characterization: genre system; Definition: genre system
“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).
Citation Link (Yates & Orlikowski)
Classification tags: Characterization: genre; Definition: genre
“Genres are dynamic rhetorical forms that develop from responses to recurrent situations and serve to stabilize experience and give it coherence and meaning. Genres change over time in response to their users’ sociocognitive needs.” p. 479
“If we understand genres as typified rhetorical actions based in recurrent situations, we must conclude that members of a genre are discourses that are complete, in the sense that they are circumscribed by a relatively complete shift in rhetorical situation.” p. 159.
