Genre Relations - Mapping Culture - James Robert Martin
Stories
Genre Relations - Mapping Culture - James Robert Martin
J.R. Martin [+]
University of Sydney
J R Martin is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His research interests include systemic theory, functional grammar, discourse semantics, register, genre, multimodality and critical discourse analysis, focussing on English and Tagalog - with special reference to the transdisciplinary fields of educational linguistics and social semiotics.
David Rose [+]
University of Sydney
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David Rose is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney, currently coordinating a national research program in language and literacy for Indigenous Australians. This project, Learning to Read: Reading to Learn, works with schools across Australia, as well as Indigenous teacher training programs in University of Sydney and University of South Australia.
Description
Stories are central genres in all cultures, in some form in almost every imaginable situation and stage of life. Stories are also the most widely studied family of genres; there is a very large narrative literature in many contemporary fields, classical traditions of story exegesis in literature, philosophy and religion. This chapter illustrates various types of stories with examples by or about Indigenous Australians.