Formulaic genres / Koenraad Kuiper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kuiper, Koenraad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discourse analysis--Social aspects.

Discourse analysis.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xiv, 223 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Mikhail Bakhtin was right. Humans cannot use the languages they know without also learning the genres which govern so much of our social life. These genres frequently consist of rules prescribing the order in which we must say things and formulaic phraseology which prescribes what can and should be said. Native speakers know only a small fraction of the formulaic genres in a speech community. This relativizes the concept of a native speaker in all situations. Koenraad Kuiper illustrates these views with an array of fascinating case studies of engagement notice writers, horse race commentators, weather forecasters, pump aerobics instructors, square dance callers, cartoonists, and Red Guards.

Contents:

Part I Formulaic Genres

1 What are Formulaic Genres? 3

2 A Day at the Races 26

3 Forecasting the Weather 42

4 Polite Genres in a Multilingual Community: Greeting and Eating in Singapore 58

5 Playing a False Part: Projecting and Perceiving Fraudulent Identities on the Internet 75

Part II Genrelects

6 Idiolectal Variation: Ritual Talk at the Supermarket Checkout 95

7 Genrelects, Gender and Politeness: Form and Function in Controlling the Body 116

8 Regional Genrelects in Engagement Notices 138

9 Revolutionary Change: Formula Change during the Cultural Revolution, People's Republic of China 157

10 Historical Variation: The Historical Reconstruction of Proto-English Auction Speech 177

11 Volitional Variation: Humour and Formulae 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-221) and index.

ISBN:

9780230553521

0230553524

OCLC:

260231157