Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks
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Giovanni Parodi✝
Abstract
In this chapter, we identify and describe the rhetorical organization of the Textbook genre, based on a part of the PUCV-2006 Academic Corpus of Spanish. This corpus includes a total amount of one hundred and twenty-six textbooks collected from four disciplines: Social Work, Psychology, Construction Engineering and Industrial Chemistry. In order to do so, we identify steps and moves of the genre, and we describe the communicative macro-purposes underlying these discourse units. In addition, we selected passages from the texts to exemplify the corresponding steps and moves. A new macro-level of analysis is introduced and justified, which becomes necessary for a better description of an extensive textual unit such as this. We have named it macromove. At the end of the chapter, we answer the question appearing in the chapter’s title and we explain why the Textbook would have a rhetorical organization, which we denominate “colony-in-loops”.
Abstract
In this chapter, we identify and describe the rhetorical organization of the Textbook genre, based on a part of the PUCV-2006 Academic Corpus of Spanish. This corpus includes a total amount of one hundred and twenty-six textbooks collected from four disciplines: Social Work, Psychology, Construction Engineering and Industrial Chemistry. In order to do so, we identify steps and moves of the genre, and we describe the communicative macro-purposes underlying these discourse units. In addition, we selected passages from the texts to exemplify the corresponding steps and moves. A new macro-level of analysis is introduced and justified, which becomes necessary for a better description of an extensive textual unit such as this. We have named it macromove. At the end of the chapter, we answer the question appearing in the chapter’s title and we explain why the Textbook would have a rhetorical organization, which we denominate “colony-in-loops”.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword ix
- About the authors xi
- Introduction 1
- Acknowledgments 5
- Chapter 1. Discourse genres, academic and professional discourses 7
- Chapter 2. Written discourse genres 17
- Chapter 3. Discourse genres in the PUCV-2006 Academic and Professional Corpus of Spanish 37
- Chapter 4. Academic and professional genres 65
- Chapter 5. University academic genres 83
- Chapter 6. Multi-dimentional analysis of an academic corpus in Spanish 101
- Chapter 7. Automatic text classification of disciplinary texts 121
- Chapter 8. Rhetorical organisation of Textbooks 143
- Chapter 9. The Textbook genre and its rhetorical organisation in four scientific disciplines 171
- Chapter 10. The Disciplinary Text genre as a means for accessing disciplinary knowledge 189
- Chapter 11. Academic discourse comprehension in Spanish and English 213
- Chapter 12. Corollary 233
- References 239
- Index 253
