PART Ⅰ PRELIMINARIES 1
1 Genre analysis-setting the scene 1
1.1 Aims and purposes 1
1.2 Outline of the book 8
1.3 Origins and influences 13
PART Ⅱ KEY CONCEPTS 21
2 The concept of discourse community 21
2.1 A need for clarification 21
2.2 Speech communities and discourse communities 23
2.3 A conceptualization of discourse community 24
2.4 An example of a discourse community 27
2.5 Remaining issues 29
3 The concept of genre 33
3.1 Genre in folklore studies 34
3.2 Genre in literary studies 36
3.3 Genre in linguistics 38
3.4 Genre in rhetoric 42
3.5 A working definition of genre 45
3.6 Pre-genres 58
3.7 Differences among genres 61
4 The concept of task 68
4.1 Task and academic English programs 68
4.2 Towards a concept of task 73
4.3 A pedagogical illustration 77
5 Genres,schemata and acquisition 83
PART Ⅲ RESEARCH-PROCESS GENRES 93
6 The role of English in research 96
6.1 General perspectives 96
6.2 Individual perspectives 102
7 Research articles in English 110
7.1 Episodes in the history of the research article 110
7.2 The constructing of research articles 117
7.3 Textual overview of the research article 127
7.4 Introductions 137
7.5 Methods 166
7.6 Results,Discussions and Conclusions 170
7.7 Review 174
8 Observations on other research-process genres 177
8.1 Abstracts 179
8.2 Research presentations 182
8.3 Grant proposals 186
8.4 Theses and dissertations 187
8.5 Reprint requests 189
PART Ⅳ APPLICATIONS 202
9 Orientations 203
9.1 Individual case work 203
9.2 Rhetorical consciousness-course content 213
9.3 Alternative uses of discourse community 217
9.4 Reflections on the 'process' approach to writing 220
10 Exhibits 222
11 Epilogue 232
References 235
Index 255
Author index 255
Subject index 259