How to define and describe genres and styles

Saukkonen, Pauli

doi:10.1515/flin.2003.37.3-4.399

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“…In this paper, I will argue that the intersubjective effect of certain person reference strategies, understood as taking into account the interlocutor, rather than the referentially ambiguous use itself, is crucial in order to explain the way these strategies function in certain genres and registers. Boundaries between genres are of course often vague (Saukkonen 2003). Similarly, various authors have argued that the oral-written distinction is scalar rather than dichotomous and crosscut by other axes such as planned-unplanned (Ochs 1979) or proximity and distance (Koch & Oesterreicher 1985).…”

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Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns

Cock¹

2022

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This paper argues for revisiting the traditional adscription of ambiguous readings of personal pronouns, such as hearer-dominantweor genericyou, pluralis maiestatis and pluralis modestiae to specific genres and/or registers. Indeed, in many languages these phenomena are considered typical for a certain genre, register or discourse context. In this paper, I will argue, on the basis of quantitative data and a qualitative analysis of examples taken from different genres (including purposefully creative language use in fiction), that a more accurate account may be formulated in terms of (inter)subjective effect, viz. the attention to the (inter)locutor (among others Benveniste 1966), as a more suitable explanation for the variation of these phenomena attested in corpora.The hearer-oriented uses ofwe, for instance, are considered typical for relationships characterized by power asymmetries such as teacher-student, doctor-patient (Haverkate 1984: 87; Brown & Levinson 1987), whereas generic and speaker-referringyouhave been considered a feature of (informal) oral language than written discourse (Hidalgo Navarro 1996). Recent corpus-based analyses including quantitative and qualitative analyses, however, call for a more nuanced view (De Cock 2011 on Spanish and English; Tarenskeen 2010 on Dutch). We may, for example, find hearer-oriented or even hearer-dominant 1stperson plural forms (Have we taken our medicine?) in contexts where no power- relationship can be defined, e.g. among couples.It will be shown that these uses have different intersubjective effects, however. Their distribution is in line with overall differences as to intersubjectivity according to register and genre, beyond referential ambiguity. The concept of (inter)subjectivity then allows for a more comprehensive analysis of these phenomena and their occurrence in specific registers and genres, addressing the way in which the (inter)locutor is taken into account in each genre.

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Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns

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2022

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“…. I would like to point out that my use of the terms "register" and "genre" differs from the use of these terms by researchers working in the framework of systemic-functional linguistics, like, for exampleSaukkonen (2003).© 2018. John Benjamins Publishing Company All rights reserved…”

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Pragmatics and anthropology

Senft

2018

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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Bronislaw Malinowski -based on his experience during his field research on the Trobriand Islands -pointed out that language is first and foremost a tool for creating social bonds. It is a mode of behavior and the meaning of an utterance is constituted by its pragmatic function. Malinowski's ideas finally led to the formation of the subdiscipline "anthropological linguistics". This paper presents three observations of the Trobrianders' attitude to their language Kilivila and their language use in social interactions. They illustrate that whoever wants to successfully research the role of language, culture and cognition in social interaction must be on 'common ground' with the researched community.

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Overlapping Expectations: Studying the Genre Relationship of Open-World and Ecocritical Genres

Gonzales,

Fisher

2024

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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How to define and describe genres and styles

Cited by 27 publications

References 8 publications

Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns

Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns

Pragmatics and anthropology

Overlapping Expectations: Studying the Genre Relationship of Open-World and Ecocritical Genres

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