scholarly journals Genre Expectations and Viewer Reaction to Our Planet: Are Audiences Motivated to Act More Sustainably?

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Claire Ahn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre

As more people turn to documentaries to learn about environmental issues it becomes even more important to consider the ways in which genre and its representational patterns, such as the use of images, affect viewers. Re-examining the multiliteracies framework and grounded in rhetorical genre studies, this paper explores the first two episodes of Our Planet, a Netflix docu-series that catalyzed strong responses based on two jarring image sequences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how our familiar understandings of particular genres impacts our understanding of particular issues and what happens when the familiar patterns of a genre are challenged.

scholarly journals Towads a hybrid approach to genre teaching: comparing the swiss and brazilian schools of socio-discursive interactionism and rhetorical genre studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Vera Lúcia Lopes Cristovão ◽  
Natasha Artemeva
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Genre Analysis ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
The Future ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

Theoretical foundations of the Swiss School of Socio-Discursive Interactionism (SDI), North American Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and the Brazilian School of SDI are reviewed, compared, and contrasted, and the similarities and differences in their key features and perspectives on genre analysis and pedagogy are discussed. The Brazilian School of SDI is identified as an expansion of Swiss SDI. The reviewed approaches are shown to be somewhat complementary. The recommendations are made for the future hybrid use of the Brazilian School of SDI and RGS in pedagogical applications.

scholarly journals Networks, Genres, and Complex Wholes: Citizen Science and How We Act Together through Typified Text

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Rose Kelly ◽  
Kate Maddalena
Keyword(s):  
Citizen Science ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Nous Croyons ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi

This article explores the intersection of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) and Actor-Network Theory (ANT). These two traditions are particularly important in the Canadian research context. We examine genre and ANT to uncover what we believe is a complementary relationship that promises much to the study of science, especially in the age of the internet. Specifically, we see RGS as a way to account for how objects come to “be” as complex wholes and so act across/among levels of network configurations. Moreover, the nature of these objects’ (instruments’) action is such that we may attribute them to a kind of rhetorical agency. We look to the InFORM Network’s grassroots, citizen science-oriented response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster as a case that exemplifies how a combined RGS and ANT perspective can articulate the complex wholes of material/rhetorical networks.Cet article examine Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) et Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Ces deux modes d’étude sont importants dans les contextes de la recherche Canadienne. Nous prennons genre et ANT, pour retrouver une perspective que nous croyons puisse contribuer beaucoup aux études de la science dans l’âge de l’internet. On comprend les genres de textes comme une moyenne de rendre compte de la façon dont les objets deviennent des ensembles complexes et donc agir entre les différents niveaux de configuration réseau. En plus, la nature des actions de ces objets (ou instruments scientifique) est telle qu’on puisse attribuer a eux une sorte d’agence rhétorique. Nous voyons le citizen science reponse de l’InFORM Network a la disastre au Fukushima Daiichi comme une example de la puissance d’un perspectif RGS/ANT pour articuler les “entieres-complexes” des networks qui sont material/rhetorical au meme temps.

scholarly journals Genresignaturen. En retorisk nydannelse

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (74) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Media Reception

Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe: “Genre Signature. A Rhetorical Neologism ”The article introduces the notion of genre signature defined as a creative, unique or deliberately misguiding genre label. It is argued that the genre signature holds a great rhetorical potential in negotiating the position as well as the interpretation of a literary work. The phenomenon is examined through analyses of contemporary Danish literature and is viewed in the context of Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS), new literary tendencies and media reception.

scholarly journals Scenes from Graduate School: Playing in the Smooth Spaces of Academic Writing

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 57-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Bray
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Writing Studies ◽  
Genre Studies ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre ◽  
Academic Genres

In this essay, I describe how I have experienced difficulties writing in particular academic genres. Finding spaces to play in these genres has helped me to ease these difficulties and negotiate the conflicts and contradictions of the academy. To explore and explain innovative spaces within genres, I extend Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of smooth and striated spaces with work in rhetorical genre studies. I conclude that opening smooth spaces in striated academic genres is not only important for students like me but may also help us better respond to the changing realities of graduate studies and academic work in Canada. I offer some suggestions as to how writing studies scholarship could support these efforts.

scholarly journals Retoryka współczesnego teatru improwizowanego. Krytyka gatunkowa formatu Harold

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Łukowska
Keyword(s):  
Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre Studies ◽  
Rhetorical Genre

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza retoryczna współczesnego teatru improwizowanego. Oś, wokół której osadzone są rozważania, to elementy charakterystyczne dla tradycyjnej budowy mowy oratorskiej oraz dla strategii jej wygłaszania. Badanie opiera się na opracowanej przez Agnieszkę Budzyńską-Dacę metodzie, na którą składa się opis czterech wymiarów gatunku. Podstawowe założenie współczesnych retorycznych studiów genologicznych (ang. Rhetorical Genre Studies, RGS), czyli uznanie gatunku za działanie społeczne, umożliwia spojrzenie na improwizację jako na dwupodmiotowe zdarzenie, wewnątrz którego tworzony jest kod o określonych celach. Krytyka oparta jest więc na kluczowych aspektach: celu, audytorium i działania. W tej perspektywie analiza gatunkowa skupia się na sytuacji retorycznej oraz jej kontekście. Materiał badawczy stanowią dwa przedstawienia w formacie reprezentatywnym dla impro – Haroldzie.

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