Key Words
social fact
speech act
"felicity" conditions
locutionary act
illocutionary act
perlocutionary effect
typification
genres
genre sets
genre system
system of activity
Guiding Questions
How are genres more than just recognizable types of texts?
Why do we develop genres?
How do genres facilitate and mediate social activity?
How can genres come to be obstacles to the very activities they emerged to facilitate and mediate?
How do genres embody the values and beliefs of those who initially used them?
In Bazerman's discussion of genres, a genre can be any traditional interaction with recognizable features; what are some of the genres you regularly enact, both those that you usually think of as writing and those that do not always involve alphabetic type?