Review:Genre and the Performance of Publics by Mary Jo Reiff and Anis Bawarshi (Eds.) reviewed by Charles N. Lesh
In 1984, Carolyn Miller’s “Genre as Social Action” was published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, laying the foundation for what we now call Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS). In this oft-cited piece, Miller outlines a theory of genre “centered not on the substance or the form of discourse but on the action it is used to…