本书阐述了悉尼学派语类研究的出发点、理论框架、分析工具等理论问题，着重介绍了故事语类、历史语类、报告与解释语类、程序与程序讲述语类，并对相关的语类拓扑、语类学习路线设计、多模态语类等问题作了阐释。

Preface
1 Getting going with genre
1.1 Bark to school
1.2 Where did we turn7
1.3 Modelling context
1.4 Systemic functional linguistics
1.5 Tools for analysis: discourse semantics
1.6 Grammatical metaphor
1.7 A note on multimodality
1.8 This book
2 Stories
2.0 Variation in stories
2.1 Recount: recording personal experience
2.2 Anecdotes- reacting to events
2.3 Exemplum- interpreting incidents
2.4 Observations - commenting on events
2.5 Narratives- resolving complications
2.6 News stories- new kinds of stories
2.7 A system of story genres
2.8 Story phases- another perspective
2.9 Response genres - evaluating stories
3 Histories
3.0 From stories to histories
3.1 Biographical recounts - telling life histories
3.2 Historical recounts- recording public histories
3.3 Historical accounts and explanations- explaining the past
3.4 Expositions, discussions and challenges- debating the past
3.5 Packaging value- what history means
3.6 Typology- classifying difference
3.7 Topology- proximating likeness
4 Reports and explanations
4.0 Classifying and explaining
4.1 Reports: classifying and describing things
4.2 Explanations: how processes happen
4.3 Genres in science
4.4 Multimedal reports and explanations
5 Procedures and procedural recounts
5.1 Procedures: directing specialised activities
5.2 Procedural recounts
5.3 Protocol
5.4 Procedural systems
5.5 Macrogenres
5.6 Education and production
6 Keeping going with genre
6.1 Is genre everything?
6.2 Relations among genres- paradigmatic relations
6.3 Relations between genres- syntagmatic relations
6.4 Dialogue
Notes
References
Index

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