Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Rationale for the Study
1.2 Aim and Research Questions
1.3 Data Collection and Methodology
1.4 Organization of the Book
Chapter2 Literature Review
2.1 Aristotle''s Ideas about Genre
2.1.1 Literary Genre
2.1.2 Rhetoric and Genre
2.1.3 Assessment
2.2 Bakhtin''s Theory of Speech Genres
2.2.1 Utterance as the Real Unit of
Speech Communication
2.2.2 Genre as Type of
Utterances
2.2.3 The Dialogic Nature of
Utterances and Genres
2.2.4 Genre and Style
2.2.5 Genre as Ideological
Forms
2.2.6 Assessmentl9
2.3 Genre in New Rhetoric
2.3.1 Genre as Action-Based
Discourse Classification
2.3.2 Genre as Response to Recurrent
Rhetorical Situations
2.3.3 Meaningfulness of a
Genre
2.3.4 Cultural Basis of Genre
2.3.5 Methodology
2.3.6 Assessment
2.4 Genre Studies in ESP
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