Contents
Preface\txxvii
1\tGetting going with genre\t1
1.1\tBack to school\t1
1.2\tWhere did we turn?\t8
1.3\tModelling context\t9
1.4\tSystemic functional linguistics\t21
1.5\tTools for analysis: discourse semantics\t30
1.6\tGrammatical metaphor\t38
1.7\tA note on multimodality\t44
1.8\tThis book\t47
2\tStories\t49
2.0\tVariation in stories\t49
2.1\tRecount: recording personal experience\t53
2.2\tAnecdotes - reacting to events\t56
2.3\tExemplum - interpreting incidents\t62
2.4\tObservations - commenting on events\t65
2.5\tNarratives - resolving complications\t67
2.6\tNews stories - new kinds of stories\t74
2.7\tA system of story genres\t81
2.8\tStory phases 一 another perspective\t82
2.9\tResponse genres - evaluating stories\t93
3\tHistories\t99
3.0\tFrom stories to histories\t99
3.1\tBiographical recounts-telling life histories\t100
3.2\tHistorical recounts-recording public histories\t105
3.3\tHistorical accounts and explanations - explaining the past\t114
3.4\tExpositions, discussions and challenges- debating the past\t118
3.5\tPackaging value - what history means\t125
3.6\tTypology - classifying difference\t131
3.7\tTopology - proximating likeness\t132
4\tReports and explanations\t141
\t4.0 Classifying and explaining\t141
\t4.1 Reports: classifying and describing things\t142
\t4.2 Explanations: how processes happen\t150
\t4.3 Genres in science\t166
\t4.4 Multimodal reports and explanations\t167
5\tProcedures and procedural recounts\t181
\t5.1 Procedures: directing specialised activities\t182
\t5.2 Procedural recounts\t198
\t5.3 Protocol\t213
\t5.4 Procedural systems\t217
\t5.5 Macrogenres\t218
\t5.6 Education and production\t226
6\tKeeping going with genre\t231
\t6.1 Is genre everything?\t231
\t6.2 Relations among genres - paradigmatic relations\t235
\t6.3 Relations between genres 一 syntagmatic relations\t250
\t6.4 Dialogue\t260
Notes\t262
References\t267
Index\t286