Genre
- Typified patterns of communication within a particular community of people.
- Verbally expressing an expectation
- Words that make it so, whether verbally or textually
- Three leveled analysis of speech acts (illocutionary force/intent, perlocutionary force/actual consequence)
- Individuals use these sets to accomplish a task
- Multiple people using genres to accomplish a task
- Our class can be considered an activity system
- The actual group of people using the genres for some purpose
- Larger social trends regarding communication and its goals
Narrative…- System/Process
- Through humans (other humans who may be famous, historical, hypothetical)
- System/Process
- Appeals/Reference Points
- Orders of magnitude
- Cultural relative points
- Generational relative points
- Relationships
- Orders of magnitude
- Visualization/Description
- Images/graphics
- Orders of magnitude
- 5 senses (other than sight you can experience sensations in many ways)
- Metaphor/simile/synechdoche/metonym
- Images/graphics