Análise de gêneros hoje. Tradução de Benedito Gomes Bezerra

Abstract

Genre analysis, as a study of linguistic behavior in academic or professional settings, has become extremely popular in the last few years, causing an increasing interest among researchers in several theoretical and applied areas. This paper presents a survey of genre analysis theory, identifying aspects in common in its main trends and discussing some important questions raised by the recent literature. The conclusive section deals with the implications of these questions to a subsequent development of the theory and to its application in teaching.