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Title: A ‘Thick Description’ Genre Analysis of Death Announcement Notices
Authors: Salahshour, Farzad
Keywords: Death Announcement Notice
Genre Analysis
Thick Description
Issue Date: 2017
Publisher: Khazar University Press
Citation: Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
Series/Report no.: Vol. 20;№ 3
Abstract: As a universally recognized social practice, the discourse of the Death Announcement Notice, henceforth DAN, is subject to macro-cultural and micro-contextual influences, and consequently to various procedural strategies that shape its schematic structure. A ‘thick description’, one which combines outsider theoretical models with insider experiential knowledge was adopted for the analysis of a randomly compiled corpus of 50 DAN texts. Based on Swales’ (1990) model of genre, eight schematic moves were discerned. The researcher’s insider knowledge was employed to yield a deeper understanding of this social practice.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12323/3643
ISSN: 2223-2613
Appears in Collections:2017, Vol. 20, № 3

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