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Gymnasisters skrivande: En studie av genre, textstruktur och sammanhang
Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för nordiska språk.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4838-3093
2000 (Swedish)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Students in upper secondary school write in a number of different genres, and do this in school contexts as well as in their spare time. The study presented here is an overview of this activity and the genres concerned. The theoretical framework of the study is that of genre theory whereby genre is understood as a socially situated concept.

The study is based on 2 000 texts gathered from students on different study programmes all over Sweden in the school year of 1996-97. The texts were written in different situations. The most important distinction made here is between test texts (i.e. texts from national tests) and self-chosen texts, which may come from schoolwriting or spare-time writing.

The texts are categorized according to genre. This text inventory shows a repertoire of 33 different genres in the text material. A small number of genres, such as story, book-review and expository essay dominate the school writing. The test genres differ from this pattern in that they clearly imitate texts with a genuine communicative intent.

The most frequent genres are studied further and each of them is demonstrated by an interpretative reading. This reading shows that the genres differ considerably with respect to genre character and stability of text structure. A quantitative study of text length and variation in vocabulary further shows that texts written by two categories of students, those on vocationally oriented programmes and those on programmes preparing for higher education, differ significantly.

Reference cohesion is studied in a smaller sample of the texts. This lexico-semantic mechanism of cohesion proves to exhibit an interrelation with variation in vocabulary as well as with text type. One particular cohesive tie, inference, shows different patterns in texts written by the two categories of students mentioned above.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis , 2000. , p. 255
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Skrifter / utgivna av Institutionen för nordiska språk vid Uppsala universitet, ISSN 0083-4661 ; 51
Keywords [en]
Scandinavian languages - general, Writing, school text, genre, cohesion, inference, Swedish, writing instruction, communicative intent, text structure, text length, variation in vocabulary
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Nordiska språk - allmänt
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URN: urn:nbn:se:du-11019ISBN: 91-506-1426-6 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:du-11019DiVA, id: diva2:560621
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2000-09-30, Ihresalen, Språkvetenskapligt centrum, Uppsala, 10:15
Available from: 2012-10-15 Created: 2012-10-15 Last updated: 2020-01-28Bibliographically approved

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