Open AccessExercising Genres: A Rejoinder to Anne Freadman
Author(s) -
Christopher L. Miller
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
discourse and writing/rédactologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-7320
DOI - 10.31468/cjsdwr.843
Subject(s) - honour , rhetorical question , conversation , context (archaeology) , sociology , reading (process) , media studies , literature , aesthetics , art , linguistics , history , philosophy , law , political science , communication , archaeology
Anne Freadman’s engagement with Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS) is informed, generous, illuminating, and provocative. She does us the service of placing into a broad intellectual context the recent conversations about genre within the developing RGS tradition. She has done me the honour of reading my work thoroughly and carefully, more carefully in some cases than I wrote it. She has taken up Rhetorical Genre Studies in her own way and given us much in return. And in response, I feel … well … compelled to reply, to take up the conversation, to add to the chain of semiosis.