The XII International Bakhtin Conference, Jyväskylä 18–22 July 2005
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Epistemology of genre
- how can we identify a genre?
- there’s a long tradition in literary studies that genre resides
in the text, has a textual nature
- this tradition has been borrowed to linguistics as well
- however, ever since Benedetto Croce, literary scholars have been aware of
the mismatch between textual evidence and genre membership
- textual evidence is simply not enough