I like Chuck Bazerman's and Paul Prior's discussion of genre as
script-like in the generative sense and discussion of voice as
the echo, so to speak, of actual voices. Ana also emphasizes
the dialogism of Bakhtin' notion of utterance.
What I am a bit concerned about, however, is that the constraining
sociohistorical relations are getting written out of the theory; the
sociolinguistic "facts"/probabilities of occurrence and
dominance of certain types of voice, etc. I can appreciate a move
away from determinism, but I sense a tension developing here between
productive foci of genre theory. That's good - A productive
tension and not a dichotomizing one. I'll say more later....
Judy