‘Genre’ as a general semiotic category?

Tommi Nieminen

Department of Languages, University of Jyväskylä

1. Toward a theory of genres of everyday discourse
2. Genre in literary studies and in linguistics
3. Epistemology of genre
4. Evidential dilemma
5. Ontological dilemma
6. Time and change
7. Discourse theory of genre
8. Bakhtin’s ‘discourse genre’
9. Vygotskyan perspective on context
10. Generalizing to semiotics