This book presents current discussions on the concept of genre. It introduces innovative, multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary and historical genres, th

The author looks at varieties of language and considers these in relation to communication and task-based language learning.

Discourse is language as it occurs, in any form or context, beyond the speech act. It may be written or spoken, monological or dialogical, but there is always a

Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a k

Kent proposes a general theory of genre classification arid applies this genetic model to American fiction written during the last half of the nineteenth centur