Genre Relations - Mapping Culture - James Robert Martin
Getting going with genre
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 defines genres as configurations of meaning, with the final goal of mapping cultures as systems of genre. The project is considered to depend on multimodal discourse analysis, since genres are typically realized through more than one modality of communication. The chapter presents two multimodal texts and conclude that that spelling and punctuation will mature ‘naturally’ in writing, just like pronunciation does for spoken language.