Genres and Genre Theory in Transition ― Specialized Discourses Across Media and Modes

Examining the evolution of text genres in corporate and professional communications, scholars of English, linguistics, and communication look at genre change in various contexts under the pressure of the increasing importance of new media and the profound social changes that have occurred during the last few decades. They share an awareness of the need to reconsider the repertoires of conventions traditionally identified in each specific genre, and to reassess and update the analytical tools used to investigate them. Among the topics are the job advertisement, presidential press conferences, occluded authorship in academic writing, and public information films for preventing sexually transmitted diseases. Brown Walker Press is a division of Dissertations.com and Universal Publishers (Boca Raton, Florida). Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)