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In this volume, Bhatia discusses multiple aspects of written discourse as produced in the real world by focusing not just on academic genres but on genres from professional and institutional contexts as well. His consideration of disciplinary variation in genres, relationships across genres, appropriation of generic resources as seen in hybrid genres, and the nature of generic integrity has led to an extension of genre theory not "constrained by the nature and design of its applications" (p. xiv) that is discussed here. In addition to this development of genre theory, this well-crafted volume provides a multiperspective, multidimensional model of genre analysis.
The volume is divided into five sections. The first section gives a useful overview of written discourse analysis, discusses a four-space model for analyzing written discourse, and provides a genre-based view of discourse. The other four sections discuss the worlds of reality, private intention, analytical perspectives, and applications as they relate to written discourse. The first two of these sections elucidate the...