Genres in new economies of language

Bibliographic Data

ID4178342
AuthorsIlana Gershon (0000-0003-0447-0694, Anthropology, Indiana University , Bloomington , USA, corresponding author), Michael M Prentice (0000-0003-2981-7850, Korean Studies , The University of Sheffield , Sheffield , UK)
Year2021
Volume2021
Issue267-268
Pages117-124
Publication date2021-03-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/ijsl-2020-0055
OpenAlexW3138415012
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce and transform social hierarchies and classifications is by aligning and mis-aligning genres. Alignments within and across genres have furnished methods for construing and evaluating qualities of people - as examples, the genre repertoires of job applications or promotion dossiers. A fine attunement to new and emergent semiotic alignments via genres can also reveal how people are engaging with social and technological transformations. To study this, we advocate turning to four focal points: shifting genre hierarchies, stabilizing genres, cross-genre identities, and empty genres

Attunement · Linguistics · Political science · Semiotics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Studies in Language

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