Genre of an Academic Lecture

• Authors: Valerija Malavska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The lecture is one of the most common forms of instruction in universities throughout the world being used as a form of studies, with the aim of conveying knowledge to a large number of students. The article looks at the nature of the academic lecture genre, its specific characteristics in comparison to other types of written or spoken modes of different genres. It introduces key theories of Genre Schools, such as New Rhetoric Studies, Systemic Functional Linguistics and English for Specific Purposes, explores the peculiarities of the university lecture as a separate genre, looks at its structure and studies the characteristic features.

Keywords

EN

academic lecture genre; core and secondary genres; interdiscursivity; intertextuality; interdisciplinarity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: International Journal on Language, Literature and Culture in Education
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 56-84

Dates

published

2016-11-01

online

2016-11-19

Contributors

author

Valerija Malavska

• Turiba University, University of Latvia,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/llce-2016-0010