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Formulaic Genres

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Koenraad Kuiper

    1. University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Formulaic Genres

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What are Formulaic Genres?

      • Koenraad Kuiper
      Pages 3-25

    3. A Day at the Races

      • Koenraad Kuiper
      Pages 26-41

    4. Forecasting the Weather

      • Koenraad Kuiper
      Pages 42-57

    5. Polite Genres in a Multilingual Community: Greeting and Eating in Singapore

      • Koenraad Kuiper
      Pages 58-74

    6. Playing a False Part: Projecting and Perceiving Fraudulent identities on the Internet

      • Koenraad Kuiper
      Pages 75-91

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 207-223
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About this book

Mikhail Bakhtin was right. Humans could not use the languages they know without also learning the genres which govern so much of our social life. These genres frequently consist of rules prescribing the order in which we must say things and formulaic phraseology which prescribes what can and should be said. Native speakers know only a small fraction of the formulaic genres in a speech community. This relativizes the concept of a native speaker in all situations. Koenraad Kuiper illustrates these views with an array of fascinating case studies of engagement notice writers, horse race commentators, weather forecasters, pump aerobics instructors, square dance callers, cartoonists, and Red Guards.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Canterbury, New Zealand

    Koenraad Kuiper

About the author

Koenraad Kuiper is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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