This document discusses genre, text, and grammar models of language. It explains that these models are primarily concerned with what occurs in writing and aim to provide students the ability to use writing codes efficiently and effectively. It describes four perspectives on language: context, genre, text, and grammar. Context refers to how texts relate to social environments and other texts. Genre describes textual categories. Text looks at characteristics of different text types. Grammar examines the formal, functional, and figural aspects of English grammar and how language represents things. The document connects genre, text, and grammar, describing genre as the social context, text as language processes, and grammar as choices in constructing words into texts.

1. GENRE, TEXT, GRAMMAR

2. HOW DO WE LEARN TO USE LANGUAGE?
● Language is both natural and cultural, individual and
social.
● A language operates in time and space.
● The shape and structure of the language is socially
determined.

3. WHAT IS A GENRE, TEXT AND GRAMMAR
MODEL OF LANGUAGE?
● Primarily concerned with what is going on in writing.
● The aim of genre, text and grammar is to provide
students with the ability to use the codes of writing
efficiently and effectively.

4. FOUR PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE
● Context : texts always relate to a social environment and to other texts
● Genre: as a textual category is theorised as an abstraction or
classification of real-life, everyday texts (registers).
● Text: Different types of texts have distinctive characteristics, depending
on what they are made to do.
● Grammar: Without a knowledge of grammar the process of becoming
literate becomes hazardous.

5. WHAT IS GRAMMAR?
● Formal aspects of grammar: how the English grammar is
put together.
● Functional aspects of grammar: what the language is
doing.

6. FIGURAL ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR
● Language can represent things/actions/events in concrete terms.
● We use words and language to represent more than the concrete.
● Figures of speech such as metaphor, achieve their effect by using a concrete
representation of something else to create a semantic effect beyond the original
meaning.

7. CONNECTING GENRE, TEXT AND GRAMMAR
● Genre, the social context and relations in which texts are
produced.
● Text, the language processes we use to construct
products.
● Grammar, the choices and limitations language-users
have when putting words together in texts.

8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Knapp, P & Watkins, M. (2005) Genre, Grammar, Text:
Technologies for Teaching and Assessing Writing. Australia:
UNSW Press.

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EDUARDO GARCÍA MALDONADO
MARTÍN ALEJANDRO GRAFF
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4TH YEAR
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