Publication details
Analysing Genre: The Colony Text of UNESCO Resolutions
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | This book analyzes the genre of resolutions in an attempt to explain the specific way discourse is constructed and interpreted in the context of intergovernmental institutional interaction practiced by the UNESCO discourse community. It uses the genre analysis approach and aims at the study of text typology and stylistic variation in association with the contextual constraints on discourse production and processing. The corpus-based study is carried out from both the synchronic and the diachronic points of view in an attempt to characterize a genre and its development over a sixty-year period. The diachronic research focuses on the development of the genre and the colony text from its implementation in the United Nations system up to the beginning of the 21st century. The investigation into the current state of the genre explores the generic structure of resolutions and their style markers, which are related to the major strategies used to build up discourse coherence. |
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