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1、5)'stem.Vol.23,No.4.pp.503-51I.1995~PergamonCopyright©1995ElsevierScienceLtdPrintedinGreatBritain.Allrightsreserved0346-25IX/95$9.5(I+0.000346-251X(95)00036-4ANALYZINGGENRE:ARELATIONALPERSPECTIVEBRIANPALTRIDGEDepartmentofAppliedLinguistics,UniversityofMelbourne,Parkville,Victoria,Australia
2、Recentyearshaveseenthedevelopmentofanumberofapproachestogenreanalysis.Eachoftheseapproachesidentifiesstructuralelementsintextsandmakesstatementsaboutthepatterningoftheseelements.Muchlessattention,however,hasbeengiventotherelationshipbetweenstructuralelementsintexts.Thepaperdescribesanappro
3、achtogenreanalysiswhichaimstocomplementexistingdescriptionsofgenresbyfocusingonsemanticrelationshipsbetweenstructuralelementsintexts.Thepaperpresentsthetheoreticalbackgroundtotheapproachandthendescribesanexampleofitsapplicationwithinthecontextofthelanguagelearningclassroom.Intheexampledesc
4、ribed,learnersexamineanumberofinstancesofaparticulargenreinordertodiscoveritsprototypicalfeaturesandthesortsofvariationwhichoccuracrossinstancesoftheparticulargenre.Learnersthuslearnnotonlyhowagenreisshaped,butequallyhowtheymaymakethesediscoveriesforthemselves.INTRODUCTIONRecentyearshavese
5、enthedevelopmentofanumberofapproachestogenreanalysis.ThetwomainapproacheswhichdominatetheliteraturearethosebasedontheworkofsystemicfunctionallinguistssuchasHalliday(1985),Hasan(1984,1989),Martin(1989,1992),Ventola(1987),Christie(1989)andKress(1989,1993)andthosebasedontheworkofJohnSwales(19
6、81,1984,1990).Thefirstoftheseapproachesisbasedonasocial-semioticperspectiveonlanguagedescription(HallidayandHasan,1989)whereasthesecondoftheseisperhapsmoreeclecticinitsperceptionofthenotionofgenre.Bothoftheseperspectivesidentifystructuralelementsintextsandmakestatementsaboutthepatterningof
7、theseelements.Muchlessattention,however,isgiventotherelationshipbetweenstructuralelementsintexts(Lemke,1988).Thispaperdescribesanapproachtogenreanalysiswhichaimstocomplementexistingdescriptionsofgenresbyfocusingonsemanticrelationshipsbetweenstructuralelementsi
