CI 565

Spring 2022

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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 582. See ENGL 582.

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43361
Lecture-Discussion
T
3:00PM -5:50PM
R
123 English Building
Russell, L
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/22-05/04/22
Section Info:
SP22 Genre Theories and Histories Course Description: Genre theory has been around for a long time (maybe forever), and it has found a home in a lot of disciplines (literature, linguistics, rhetoric, film, psychology, computer science, and so on). This course considers how theorists from several different fields have approached the study of kinds, classes, and sorts. If genres aren’t simply sets of texts similar in form and content, what are they? What does it mean to think of a genre as rhetorical and social, cognitive and coercive? How do genres orchestrate not just cultural productions but cultural expectations and relations? Where do genres come from for that matter? This seminar will be particularly interested in theories of genre that take root in historical perspectives, tracing the development of a single genre—the religious treatise, the architecture notebook, the resume, the dissertation, the anthropological monograph, the pastoral poem, the animal autobiography—over time. How do generic patterns (in form, content, situation, exigence, audience, action) take and then shift shape? What prompts a genre to change and how much can it do so before it becomes a different genre? How do genre histories enrich genre theories?
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32284
Lecture-Discussion
X
12:00PM -2:50PM
R
135 English Building
Prior, P
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/22-05/04/22
Section Title:
Topics Research & Writing
Section Info:
SP22 English 582/C&I 565 Topic: Writing, multimodality and dialogic semiotics: Frameworks for research Writing and multimodality have often been conceptualized more as technologies and media than as practices or activities. This seminar explores how to engage in theoretically-grounded research on writing practices. It centers on general theories and methods for research on writing, multimodality and dialogic semiotics, with attention to the traditions associated with Bakhtin and Voloshinov, multimodality (e.g., Kress, Rowsell) as well as related work on situated activity (e.g., Hanks, Irvine, Agha), and literacies (Smith, Roozen, Stornaiuolo, Witte). Research methods then need to trace complex relationships among situated semiotic action, cultural artifacts (including inscriptional artifacts), genre systems, and writing. To examine how to implement these approaches in studies of literate activity, we will engage in a series of informal inquiry activities (practicing in effect how to conduct and analyze research on writing). Finally, each student will explore the application of these frameworks to a current or projected research project.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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