Speech Genres in Transformation: a Comparative Study of Journals’ and Blogs’ Generic Structure Potential under a Systemic-functional Perspective

Authors

  • Orlando Vian Jr. Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Guarulhos, Brasil
  • M. Caroline Moreira-Ferreira Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brasil

Keywords:

journal, blogs, genre, Generic Structure Potential (GSP), register

Abstract

This text presents partial results of a research project developed at undergraduate level which aimed at comparing the Generic Structure Potential (Halliday & Hasan, 1989) of two genres: journals and blogs. Aiming to bring some contributions to genre studies from a systemicfunctional perspective, we analyzed blogs as a genre resulting from transformations of journals, recontextualized according to sociohistorical changes brought about by the internet. We present the Generic Structure Potential of both genres based on data collected and their register variables (Halliday & Hasan, 1989) as a way of showing the differences and similarities between them both.

Author Biographies

Orlando Vian Jr., Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Guarulhos, Brasil

Orlando Vian Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (PUC-SP). His main research interests are ESP, teacher education, Systemic-functional Linguistics and genre studies. He teaches at Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Campus Guarulhos.

M. Caroline Moreira-Ferreira, Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Lingüística Aplicada e Estudos da Linguagem/PUC-SP, São Paulo, Brasil

Caroline Moreira-Ferreira is involved in research in the area of Systemic-functional Grammar and genre studies. She was a student at PUC-SP both at undergraduate level (Letras) and as a master student at LAEL/PUC-SP.

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Issue

Vol. 28 No. 2 (2007)

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Papers

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