>I think the differences between AT and SFL have to do more with their
>respective theories of society ("context") than with theories and systems
>of grammar. What is con (with) text? That's the part I'm wrestling with.
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-- Judy
Genres, as routines of tool-use through which people carry out
>their actions, are either suitable (appropriate[d]) or they are perceived
>to be "inappropriate," they may change (people appropriate new ones).
>Though this often happens with a great deal of tension, contradiction,
>renegotiation, multi-voicedness and, unfortunately sometimes, downright
>physical force (through the use of those tools we call weapons). Indeed,
>it's possible to destry an entire genre, even an entire language, to
>eradicate a whole "way of life" if enough force is applied. But more often
>what happens in response to contradictions is that some new genre(s), some
>new way of life is forged, synthesized, and then routinized, stabilized (as
>indeed new languages, new cultures, are born of such struggles).
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>David R. Russell
>English Department
>Iowa State University
>Ames, IA 50011
>USA (515) 294-4724,fax 294-6814
>drrussel who-is-at iastate.edu
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Judy Diamondstone diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Graduate School of Education Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Eternity is in love with the productions of time. - W. Blake