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Genres
What are Genres?
Why study Genres?
How does this work in a Rhetorical context?
Definition
OED: a. Kind; sort; style.; b. spec. A particular style or category of works of art; esp. a type of literary work characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.
Oral
Iconography
Public speaking, podcast, radio show/program, class lecture, face-to- face interviews, songs.
Webcast, video/music video/YouTube, posters, cartoons/comics, photography, instruction sets (visual), televised interviews, corporate logo.
Genre criticism analyzes texts in terms of their genre: the set of generic expectations, conventions, and constraints that guide their production and interpretation. By grouping artifacts with others of similar formal features rhetorical critics can shed light on how authors use or ignor conventions in order to meet their needs.
Typography
Before developing your own opinions about your topics, first understand what is being said about your topics within their discourse communities. Looking at genres and analyzing their messages and modes of delivery can help you gain a better understanding of the discussions and debates already taking place.
Books/textbooks, magazines, newspapers, websites, primary source documents (historical diaries, essays, telegrams), laws/policy, transcribed interviews, written music lyrics.
Literary Term: Genre means the type of art, literature or music characterized by a specific form, content and style. For example, literature has four main genres; poetry, drama, fiction and non-fiction. All of these genres have particular features and functions that distinguish them from one another.
via RWS Handbook (ebook), Assignment #2, p 193-194
Genres have been used to classify speeches and works of literature since the time of Aristotle, who named three rhetorical genres, the legal or judicial, the deliberative or political, and the ceremonial or epideictic. Since then, rhetorical approaches to genre and understanding of the term "genre" has evolved.
MW: a particular type or category of literature or art