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WORLDS OF WRITTEN DISCOURSE: A GENRE-BASED VIEW

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2006

Betty Samraj
Betty Samraj
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San Diego State University
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WORLDS OF WRITTEN DISCOURSE: A GENRE-BASED VIEW. Vijay K. Bhatia. New York: Continuum, 2004. Pp. xvii + 228. $49.95 paper.

In this volume, Bhatia discusses multiple aspects of written discourse as produced in the real world by focusing not just on academic genres but on genres from professional and institutional contexts as well. His consideration of disciplinary variation in genres, relationships across genres, appropriation of generic resources as seen in hybrid genres, and the nature of generic integrity has led to an extension of genre theory not “constrained by the nature and design of its applications” (p. xiv) that is discussed here. In addition to this development of genre theory, this well-crafted volume provides a multiperspective, multidimensional model of genre analysis.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , December 2006 , pp. 651 - 653
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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