Genre as Ideological Mediation
Whose Topics? Whose Face Systems? Whose Socialisation Strategies?
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This paper draws on data from intercultural development discourse, ESL teaching and hate media in pre-genocide Rwanda to characterise genres as mediators of ideology, instantiating and interweaving culturally significant representations, authority systems and textual traditions through dispersed patterns of discourse as much as structural regularity. Applications of the approach for development and educational discourse are discussed in terms of the generic potential of discourse contexts and the registerial competence of participants, and the potential of the approach for propagating counter-discourses to hate media is considered in light of the data from Rwanda.
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Bartlett, T. (2003) The Transgressions of Wise Men: structure, tension and agency in intercultural development discourse. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Bartlett, T. (2004a) Mapping distinction: towards a systemic representation of power in language. In L. Young and C. Harrison (eds) Systemic Functional Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis: studies in social change. London and New York: Continuum.
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Bartlett, T. and Erling, E. (2007) Local voices in global English: the authenticity and legitimation of non-standard ways of speaking. In Proceedings of the 33rd Systemic Functional Congress. Online publication available at: http://www.pucsp.br/isfc/ proceedings
Rothbart, D. and Bartlett, T. (2007) Hutu hate media as normative positioning. In Fathali M. Moghaddam and Rom Harré (eds) Global Conflict Resolution through Positioning Analysis. New York: Springer.
Bernstein, B. (2000) Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity: theory, research, critique. (Revised edition) Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield.
Bhabha, H. (1994) The Location of Culture. London and New York: Routledge.
Bourdieu, P. (1991) Language and Symbolic Power. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Chambers, R. (1997) Whose Reality Counts? Putting the First Last. Southampton: ITDG Publishing.
Cloran, C. (2000) Socio-semantic variation: different wordings, different meanings. In L. Unsworth (ed.) Researching Language in Schools and Communities: functional linguistic perspectives. London and Washington: Cassell.
Erling, E. J. (2004) Globalization, English and the German University Classroom: a sociolinguistic profile of students of English at the Freie Universität Berlin. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
Erling, E. J. (2005) Who is the ‘Global English’ speaker? A profile of students of English at the Freie Universität Berlin. In C. Gnutzmann and F. Intemann (eds) The Globalisation of English and the English Language Classroom. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.
Fairclough, N. (1993) Discourse and Social Change. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Hasan, R. ([1984] 1996) The nursery tale as genre. In C. Cloran, D. Butt and G. Williams (eds) Ways of Saying: ways of meaning. Selected Papers of Ruqaiya Hasan. London and New York: Cassell.
Heath, S. B. (1983) Ways with Words: language, life and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Luke, A. (1996) Genres of power? Literacy and education and production of capital. In R. Hasan and G. Williams (eds) Literacy in Society. Harlow: Longman.
Martin, J. R. (1997) Analysing genre: functional parameters. In F. Christie and J. R. Martin (eds) Genre and Institutions: social processes in the workplace and school. London and New York: Continuum.
Vygotsky, L. ([1934] 1986) Thought and Language. Cambridge Mass: MIT Press.
Wertsch, J. V. (1998) Mind as Action. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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2008-03-14
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Bartlett, T. (2008). Genre as Ideological Mediation: Whose Topics? Whose Face Systems? Whose Socialisation Strategies?. Linguistics and the Human Sciences, 2(2), 257-274. https://doi.org/10.1558/lhs.v2i2.257
