speech genre

is the structure and style of all discourse in that relatively stable expectations accompany the character of greetings, oratory, storytelling, sung performances, or conversations.

speech genres, based on expectations for the structure and style of the utterance. This principle is developed in Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (1986). Though derived from literary studies, which is filled with genres like epic poetry or political satire, Bakhtin saw this general concept as one of the organizing principles of all discourse, where one encounters relatively stable expectations regarding the character of a narrative, from greetings to conversations, oratory, storytelling, or sung performance. (McGee theory in social)

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speech genre