What is a genre?

What is a genre?

Definition
	A genre is a particular class of speech events (in discourse analysis) which are considered as being of the same type, having particular and distinctive characteristics.

Context for this page:

Concept module: genre
In modular book: Glossary of Language Learning Terms, by International Language Learning Department
In document collection: Other Resources
In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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