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Haettner Aurelius, Eva LU (2017) p.27-41
Abstract
The concept of genre is scrutinized as a semantic phenomenon, and it is argued that the concept of genre must be defined according to a pragmatic semantic, not a realistic. Genres are not logical classes. The analytic practice is then connected to this way of defining the concepts: it is governed by how the culture using the concept understands the word. An analysis of a letter of Mme de Sévigné demonsrates how this analysis works, and two kinds of mediation by the genre are found: it mediates between language' s grammatic level and its pragmatic, and between text and society.
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genreteori, genreanalys, genredefinition, pragmatisk semantik
host publication
Literature : An Introduction to theory and analysis - An Introduction to theory and analysis
editor
Rosendahl Thomsen, Mads ; Horne Kjældgaard, Lasse ; Møller, Lis ; Munk Rösing, Lilian ; Simonsen, Peter and Ringgaard, Dan
pages
15 pages
publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN
9781474271998
9781474271981
9781474271974
9781474271967
language
English
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yes
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2d6656f5-7d40-4e94-a3ca-6d8299d4b6aa
date added to LUP
2017-03-02 13:14:13
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2018-11-21 21:30:20
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  booktitle    = {{Literature : An Introduction to theory and analysis}},
  editor       = {{Rosendahl Thomsen, Mads and Horne Kjældgaard, Lasse and Møller, Lis and Munk Rösing, Lilian and Simonsen, Peter and Ringgaard, Dan}},
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  pages        = {{27--41}},
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