The document discusses genre analysis, defining it as a purposeful activity through which language serves communicative functions in context. It highlights the relationship between text and discourse, noting specific linguistic features such as hedges, rhetorical questions, and directives that contribute to coherence. The analysis indicates that the text's genre is aimed at supporting an argument for subsidies in kindergarten education.

1. Examples Of Genre Analysis
Literature review
Genre analysis, literally is to analyze a piece of genre which is "a staged,goal–oriented,purposeful
activity"in which speakers/writers engaged to express a certain meaning (Martin,1984,p.25). In other
words, people use language in various occasions, for some certain purposes, perceived to be a
meaningful and coherent whole which focus on communicative function: "language"in action or
"language in use" , can be called as a type of text or discourse. While genre analysis is treated as
discourse analysis more like a text analysis. Text is a record of communicative event while discourse
refers to the interpretation of the communicative event in context (Nunan,1993),which shows
discourse connects text with context. Following...show more content...
writer use hedges like"would,can,could etc." to tone down the manner of language: this
would...kindergarten education(Line11),especially in terms of giving the solution: It can
consider...premises(Line23).In order to facilitate constructing writer–reader relationship,rhetorical
question was used: Yet,should...will pay?(Line13). Also typical is the high frequency of using some
directives: Firstly,there should...kindergartens(Line17), which implicates the authority of this article.
Different coherence types represented in this text : At the beginning of this article there is a clear
reminder In response to...(Line 1) contributing to the logical coherence. Using of phrasal
connectives,e.g., "at the same time" and single–word connective"but" "yet" "and" all help the text
with logical coherence. But adversative coherence is not used much in this text, for the genre of this
text is to giving support to argue for the subsydise. However ,semantic coherence stands out in this
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