Discourse and Genre (the relationship between discourse and genre)

DISCOURSE & GENRE Arinda Mita Atikah Dewi Belinda Hendra

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We provide some questions to make the discussion clearer 1. What is discourse? Discourse is the use of language in text and context 2. What is genre? Genre in linguistics refers to the type and structure of language typically used for a particular purpose in a particular context. 3. What is relationship between discourse and genre? Discourse analysis is genre analysis. When we analyze discourses, of course we will specify them into more specific types from the characteristics of each discourse. For exampleThe specific type of discourses is called as genre. 4. Why should we use genre to analyze discourse? Discourse is language in use. It is huge and almost unlimited. So, when we want to analyze discourses, we need a limitation to limit the unlimited things. Here, we use an analogy for this statement. (slide 11,12) Genre provides limit in discourse. That is why genre is used to help us divining and analyzing the discourses. 5. How do we analyze discourse through genre? Example: text “Forklift fatty Improving”. ---------- The text is taken from the newspaper report. As we see in the language features and structures, we can divine it into recount text. It is non fiction, because it is based on real event. And it is written. So, we can say that this discourse has written non-fiction recount genre. But, we cannot make sure that a type of discourse always has the same characteristics, because discourse is neither absolutely homogenous nor absolutely heterogeneous. Discourse is sometimes heterogeneous. Here, we provide two videos which have the same genre, but quite different in terms of language features and structures. ---------VIDEO From the videos, we can feel that the first and the second videos are quite different. The structure in the first video is introduction (addressing, personal value), content (some important issues, e.g: financial issues, goals of America, ), closing (hope for American future, blessing). The language features used in the first video is more formal, present tense. The atmosphere created is formal. From the second video, the structure is introduction (personal value without addressing), content (some goals), closing (. The language features used in the video is mixing, unclear and needs more understanding. The atmosphere created is a bit humorous. Although they have different characteristics, they have the same genre in term of purpose, that is political genre. From those videos, we can conclude that we cannot stick to an idea that a genre of discourse always has the same characteristics. AGAIN, discourse is neither absolutely homogenous nor absolutely heterogeneous.

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DISCOURSE&

GENREArinda MitaAtikah Dewi

Belinda Hendra

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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.

• Genre is a 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 interpretated by refering to the social and cultural context in which the context exists.