Genre is the setting someone chooses to communicate in. when I think of genre and communication what comes to mind is a kid deciding what he/she wants to listen to on their iTunes. There is a large selection of songs and all the songs in the library are of different genre. Using my iTunes analogy, if an individual chooses Lil Wayne from the library they should be communicating along the lines of little. Also, genre is the setting of the conversation. The setting preps the listener or reader for what to expect and get out of the illustration. The role genre plays in composing is vital, genre is the circumstance a writer or speaker chooses to write under. For example, during the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr wrote speeches that empowered, inspired, and shocked individuals in America. What these speeches also did was respond appropriately to a rhetorical situation. These speeches where written in an era that was under a lot of racial tension which I believe is the genre. Like I mentioned before genre creates expectations for the reader/ listener, but it also creates expectations for the writer/speaker as well. Genre expects the speaker/ writer to respond appropriately and compel the audience to react to the situation. The limitations genre inscribes come under rare circumstances, if an individual does not respond accordingly it limits on to stay inside of the genre.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Genres role
Genre is the setting someone chooses to communicate in. when I think of genre and communication what comes to mind is a kid deciding what he/she wants to listen to on their iTunes. There is a large selection of songs and all the songs in the library are of different genre. Using my iTunes analogy, if an individual chooses Lil Wayne from the library they should be communicating along the lines of little. Also, genre is the setting of the conversation. The setting preps the listener or reader for what to expect and get out of the illustration. The role genre plays in composing is vital, genre is the circumstance a writer or speaker chooses to write under. For example, during the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr wrote speeches that empowered, inspired, and shocked individuals in America. What these speeches also did was respond appropriately to a rhetorical situation. These speeches where written in an era that was under a lot of racial tension which I believe is the genre. Like I mentioned before genre creates expectations for the reader/ listener, but it also creates expectations for the writer/speaker as well. Genre expects the speaker/ writer to respond appropriately and compel the audience to react to the situation. The limitations genre inscribes come under rare circumstances, if an individual does not respond accordingly it limits on to stay inside of the genre.