Saturday 8 March 2014

(Robert Stam 2000) - Problems with Genre labels


 extension (the genre can be too broad or narrow to give an accurate idea of what a text is like)  normativism (upon hearing of a genre you make assumptions towards the text before you've even seen it);  monolithic definitions (not all texts can be neatly categorised into just one area);  biologism (some people view genres as living things which evolve over time)

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