Authorship in the domain of genres: paraphrase and style

Abstract

This work discusses the notion of authorship in the domain of oral genres, based on the analysis of three extracts from discourses produced in the academic environment, namely a class, a seminar and a meeting. Based on Bakhtin’s ideas, it is assumed that every discourse suffers generic coercions, and that each statement illustrates the style of a particular genre related to a specific field of human activity (Bakhtin, 1953/2000). We are interested in discussing the room for authorship within genres, which results both from a discursive project and from the work the individual carries out in the available spaces.