Genre Relations - Mapping Culture - James Robert Martin
Reports and explanations
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 analyzes a range of reports and explanations, thus, two families of genres that characterize science. Reports and explanations draw on two complementary sets of resources that language provides for construing relations between phenomena, focusing on one hand on entities, and on the other hand on activities.