TEXTS AND THEIR SOCIAL FUNCTIONS

The study of the social function of different kinds of text is called …

• 1. Discourse analysis

• 1. Genre

• Genre analysis

• Text social function analysis

1. Cheesy Chex Mix

Toss 3 cups Chex cereal, 2 cups mini pretzels and 1 cup cheese crackers with 3/4 cup grated parmesan, 1/2 stick melted butter and a pinch of garlic powder. Spread on a baking sheet and bake 15 minutes at 325 degrees F, stirring.

What are the most likely communicative purposes of that text?

• Informing recent events and persuading to buy certain products for the dish

• 1. Instructing how to make a certain dish and informing recent event

• 1. Instructing how to make a certain dish and informing recent event

• Instructing how to make a certain dish and persuading to buy certain products for the dish

The built-in constraints in genre govern …

• What kinds of things can/not can be included and how it should be included

• The important point to exploiting the constraints

• The communicative purposes of text

• The common goals and common ways of reaching the goals

1. Genres are always associated with certain groups of people that have certain common goals and common ways of reaching these goals.

These groups can be called …

• Genre communities

• Discourse communities

• Communities

• Social Communities

1. Moves in genre can be defined as …

• 1. Creativity of a genre

• 1. Which steps should include in a genre

• 1. Structure of a text

• 1. General idea of a genre

1. The way the writers play with generic convention by floating it in subtle ways called …

• Blending

• 1. Moving

• 1. Contexting

• 1. Bending

1. Mikhail Bhaktin stated that genres are ..… and also ….. at the same time.

• 1. Strict and static

• 1. Strict and challenging

• 1. Static and dynamic

• 1. Free and dynamic

1. The way of ‘ playing with’ generic conventions is to mix the conventions of one genre with another 

• 1. Bending

• 1. Moving

• 1. Blending

• 1. Banning

1. If a discourse has a sequentially events and relationship, it can be called as …

• Relationship goals

• Sequential relationship

• Non-sequential relationship

Genre is all discourse that has a purpose, then genre is

• staged

• vary

• goal oriented