The XII International Bakhtin Conference, Jyväskylä 18–22 July 2005
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Toward a theory of genres of everyday discourse
- even everyday discourse seems to consist of recurrent forms
- different viewpoints for differing fields of study:
- for the literary scholar, the main interest lies in the connection between
collective genres and the individual works
- for the linguist, genres are a form of functional variation
- for the semiotician, there is the ultimate question of
“Why”—what is the nature of genres and why do they
exist?