Formulaic Genres

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Formulaic Genres

   1. Front Matter

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   2. What are Formulaic Genres?

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      Pages 3-25

   3. A Day at the Races

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      Pages 26-41

   4. Forecasting the Weather

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      Pages 42-57

   5. Polite Genres in a Multilingual Community: Greeting and Eating in Singapore

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      Pages 58-74

   6. Playing a False Part: Projecting and Perceiving Fraudulent identities on the Internet

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      Pages 75-91

3. Genrelects

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Idiolectal Variation: Ritual Talk at the Supermarket Checkout

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      Pages 95-115

   3. Genrelects, Gender and Politeness: Form and Function in Controlling the Body

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      Pages 116-137

   4. Regional Genrelects in Engagement Notices

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      Pages 138-156

   5. Revolutionary Change: Formula Change during the Cultural Revolution, People’s Republic of China

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      Pages 157-176

   6. Historical Variation: The Historical Reconstruction of Proto-English Auction Speech

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      Pages 177-190

   7. Volitional Variation: Humour and Formulae

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      Pages 191-206

4. Back Matter

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Mikhail Bakhtin was right. Humans could not use the languages they know without also learning the genres which govern so much of our social life. These genres frequently consist of rules prescribing the order in which we must say things and formulaic phraseology which prescribes what can and should be said. Native speakers know only a small fraction of the formulaic genres in a speech community. This relativizes the concept of a native speaker in all situations. Koenraad Kuiper illustrates these views with an array of fascinating case studies of engagement notice writers, horse race commentators, weather forecasters, pump aerobics instructors, square dance callers, cartoonists, and Red Guards.

• body
• Case Studies
• China
• construction
• corpus
• English
• gender
• humour
• knowledge
• multilingualism
• project
• propaganda
• reconstruction
• revolution
• tradition
• literary diction

• University of Canterbury, New Zealand

  Koenraad Kuiper

Koenraad Kuiper is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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