Gershon, I. and Prentice, M.M. orcid.org/0000-0003-2981-7850 (2021) Genres in new economies of language. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2021 (267-268). pp. 117-124. ISSN 0165-2516
Abstract
This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce and transform social hierarchies and classifications is by aligning and mis-aligning genres. Alignments within and across genres have furnished methods for construing and evaluating qualities of people – as examples, the genre repertoires of job applications or promotion dossiers. A fine attunement to new and emergent semiotic alignments via genres can also reveal how people are engaging with social and technological transformations. To study this, we advocate turning to four focal points: shifting genre hierarchies, stabilizing genres, cross-genre identities, and empty genres.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 15 Mar 2021 08:00 |
Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2022 01:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Walter de Gruyter GmbH |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1515/ijsl-2020-0055 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:172144 |