Genre - Bawarshi
It’s funny to see how texts work within genre. Even somewhat aware of this construct, it never really occurred to me personally that all texts in a certain genre are just similar situations put together. It never crossed my mind as all these working within the same construct of action because all texts are fashioned differently. While seeming different in language and style, all genres still work with similar circumstance. You can break down these genres more so with the use of the author function as well, when it looks through a specific author for how their work moves in similar circumstances represented throughout. It’s only a system of classification, however, in order to categorize different types of texts. Genre is a construct to helping us understand why certain situations please while others make us react differently. These situations and texts that are so privileged are better understood why they are privileged and how their content reflects the world around its audience. It helps us place them where they function in society, but so much focus is on where they fit among the individual and society. A text almost seems to have a hierarchy by putting it in genre, but by also having it within there is some status that is given to a work. The article explained as to when a writer is working on writing, usually those who are classified as “basic writers” are denied the amount of privilege to their texts. By placing them in their genre, it brings more status by placing it as something that has been read. All texts are inter-textual, meaning they all interact with each other. Really a text in a genre is part of a much bigger story, but adds content to that build. We come to understand genre through similar situations and vice-versa. It is not something that can be easily discarded as we have all used it all our lives.