Genre Conventions, Speaker Identities, and Creativity: An Analysis of Japanese Wedding Speeches  

Oleh:

Dunn, Cynthia Dickel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association vol. 15 no. 2 dan 3 (2005), page 205-228.
Topik: Genre; Conventionalization; Social roles; Genre colonization; Japanese discourse
Fulltext: 491-805-1-PB.pdf (197.5KB)

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Recent approaches to genre as discourse practice have examined how genres as orienting frameworks allow speakers to creatively adapt conventional forms to specific situational contexts. This article analyzes congratulatory speeches at Japanese wedding receptions to show how the interaction of conventionalization and creative contextualization varies across both different parts of the wedding speech and different categories of wedding speakers. The analysis demonstrates how the wedding speech genre provides speakers with a spectrum of performance possibilities which are systematically linked to different speaking roles and social identities.

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