Revisiting the concept of intergenericity

Authors

  • Vicente de Lima Neto
  • Júlio César Araújo Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Keywords:

Genres, Intergenericity, Genre mixture

Abstract

This paper aims to revisit the intergenericity, a concept that deals with genre mixture. Based on Bakhtin's reflections (2006 [1953]) on reelaboration and genre mixture, we seek arguments to support the thesis that the concept of intergenericity,  as it has been proposed by Text Linguistics, does not account for all the different forms of text in which genres are mixed. We propose three different types of genre mixture: the prototype intergenericity mixture, characterized by the fusion of traces of, at least, two genres; the casually occurring genre mixture; that consists of genres that do not necessarily combine, but that coexists in a symbiotic relationship, considering a common communicative purpose; and the interspersed genre mixture, which involves genres that can belong to different enunciative scenes.

Author Biographies

  • Vicente de Lima Neto
    Doutorando em Linguística pela UFC. 
  • Júlio César Araújo, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
    Professor e Pesquisador no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Linguística (PPGL) do Departamento de Letras Vernáculas da UFC, onde coordena o grupo de pesquisa Hiperged. Atua na área de Linguística Aplicada em interface com Pragmática, Análise do Discurso e Linguística Textual. À luz dessa interface estuda as relações entre linguagem e tecnologia digital, com especial atenção aos seguintes temas: gêneros digitais, letramentos na web, EaD, convergência de mídias e hipertexto. Atualmente é vice-presidente da Associação Brasileira de Estudos sobre Hipertexto e Tecnologia Educacional (ABEHTE) e da Associação de Linguística Aplicada do Brasil (ALAB).

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Published

2012-05-21

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Essays