Rationality of Genre  

作　　者：Zongjie Wu 

机构地区：[1]Zhejiang University

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2004年第6期46-57,共12页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper elaborates the notion of rationality of genre with a concrete research focus on an instance of innovative curriculum talk. It shows how various social reasons situated in the network of social practices are recontextualised as the local pedagogical discourse through recombining different disembedded genresI. The paper starts from a discussion of the relationship between situated knowledge and its language： heteroglossia, in the belief that the language of heteroglossia conceptualises a complex web of interrelated meaning across time and space in the process of discursive hybridity. Drawing upon Habermas＇ theory of communicative action and Fairclough＇s understanding of genre, the study explores the notion of rationality of genre by giving a critical interpretation to the category of genre developed in systemic functional linguistics. Rather than seeing genre as merely a staged, purpose -driven communicative plane, it is argued that there is a more abstract and fundamental level of social reason or rationality, which underpins the construction of genre, including its hierarchy of purposes. Rationality of genre is seen as a high order of dispersed social knowledge that is brought into practice through mixing and combining existing genres or genre elements in the networking of social practices. The study also attempts to demonstrate how specific forms of reasons are comprehended in an instance of student dormitory talk, contributing to the transformation of a curriculum practice.

关 键 词：RATIONALITY GENRE pedagogical discourse ARGUMENT HABERMAS communicative action 

分 类 号：H3[语言文字]