Genre Relations - Mapping Culture - James Robert Martin
Histories
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
This chapter presents a family of event-oriented genres that have evolved to construct and maintain social order on the wider scale of peoples and their institutions, that is historical genres. It begins with biographical genres, which are closely related to the personal recounts from Chapter 2, and further explores history genres which manage time, cause and value in complementary ways, to recount historical episodes and to explain the reasons they occurred, from one or more angles. It finally examines genres that explicitly argue for or against interpretations of history.