Discourse and Genre Analysis

Bandejas, Mariel D.
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Discourse is a group of sentences
which link one proposition to
another one and makes a
coherent unit of the sentences.
Genre is a directional, patterned,
continuous, and purpose-
oriented activity.
 What is DISCOURSE?
Is the use of language both in
written and spoken.
Is neither absolutely
homogeneous nor absolutely
heterogeneous
 What is Discourse Analysis?
is a collection of methods for
studying language in action,
looking at text in relation to the
social context in which they are
used, but this broad definition
has been interpreted in various
ways across the social
sciences.
 What is GENRE?
Refers to the type and
structure of language typically
used for a particular purpose
in a particular context.
Is a social action and a speech
event that has communicative
goal shared by the members
of a particular discourse.
Genre is distinctive part of culture
that has purpose and steps, as well
as language features which has
relationship to the purpose, steps
and the distinctive culture that the
definitions should be interpreted
by referring to the social and
cultural context in which the
context exist.
Genre: in literary studies,
films, anthropology, study of
folklore, music.
In applied linguistics, three
approaches to genre:
- The ESP Approach
- The New Rhetoric Approach
- The functional-systemic Approach
 What is Genre Analysis?
Is a process of looking at
several samples of a particular
genre to analyze their
similarities and differences in
terms of their purposes,
macrostructure and language
choice.
 What is the relationship
between discourse and genre?
Discourse analysis
IS
Genre analysis
Why should we use genre to
analyze discourse?
 Discourse Genre

Unlimited Limited
How do we analyze discourse
through genre?
Analyzing Analyzing
discourse genre

Characteristics

Language Features

Structures
Quiz
 1. 2.

Characteristics
1-4. Fill up the
missing part in 3.
this organizer.
4.
5. It is a group of sentences
which link one proposition to
another one and makes a
coherent unit of the sentences.
6. It is a directional, patterned,
continuous, and purpose-
oriented activity.
7-9. The three approaches to
genre in applied linguistics.
10. MODIFIED TRUE OF FALSE:
Write True, if the statement is
correct and if it is false, write
the correct answer.
Discourse: Limited
 Key answers
1. Analyzing 6. Genre
discourse 7. ESP Approach
2. Analyzing genre 8. New Rhetoric
3. Language Approach
features 9. The functional-
4. Structures systemic Approach
5. Discourse 10. Unlimited