Pattern and particularity in a pedagogical genre: The case of an individual teacher

Abstract

The pedagogical focus of many genre studies in the field of applied linguistics has produced a wealth of materials designed to raise students’ awareness of the purposes, rhetorical structures, linguistic features, and contexts associated with particular educational genres. The desire to pin down the key characteristics of these genres has also resulted in a conceptualization of genres as rather more stable and constraining/normative than is the case in other disciplines such as literary studies and linguistic anthropology. In this chapter, we report on a rhetorical genre-based analysis of a spoken classroom event in the discipline of architecture - an event that was identified in the current..