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Discourse genre

Index of SIL publications on Discourse genre listed by country.

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General works

• Boswell, Freddy. 2004. ""Read my lipograms" accurately, beautifully, clearly dynamically: is it possible to translate the literary forms of Psalm 119 and "La Diasparition?"."
• Hwang, Shin Ja J. 1993. "Embedding and skewing of discourse types."
• Larson, Mildred L. 1996. "The relation of discourse genre to meaning in translation."
• Ljungberg, Bo-Krister. 1994. "Genre and form criticism in Old Testament exegesis."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1972. "Narrative versus other discourse genre."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1978. "Discourse genre."
• Longacre, Robert E. 1994. "The dynamics of reported dialogue in narrative."
• Matthews, Delle. 1995. "A genre-based approach to literacy."
• Schaefer, Nancy A. 2004. "Genre considerations for Micah 6:1-8."
• Thomson, Gregory and Bushra Adnan Zawaydeh. 1996. "A search for inflectional priming reveals an effect of discourse type on the lexical access of inflected verbs."
• Unger, Christoph. 2001. "Genre and translation."
• Unger, Christoph. 2001. On the cognitive role of genre: a relevance-theoretic perspective.
• Unger, Christoph. 2006. Genre, relevance and global coherence: the pragmatics of discourse type.
• Wallis, Ethel E. 1983. "Four gospels, four discourse genre."
• Wendland, Ernst R. 1994. "Genre criticism and the Psalms: What discourse typology can tell us about the text (with special reference to Psalm 31)."
• Wilt, Timothy. 2007. "Form and genre: translating procedural texts in Leviticus."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ghana

• Hunt, Geoffrey R. 1978. "Paragraphing, identification, and discourse types in Hanga."  

Americas

Ecuador

• Hepner, Carol. 1988. "Hypothesis on helping to identify Waorani discourse types."

Guatemala

• McArthur, Harry S. 1979. "The role of aspect in distinguishing Aguacatec discourse types."  

Asia

Philippines

• Errington, Ross. 1979. "Discourse types and tense patterns in Cotabato Manobo."  
• Madrid, Angelina F. 1980. "Four discourse genre in Amganad Ifugao."  
• Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1992. "Word order and discourse type: An Austronesian example."
• Wrigglesworth, Hazel J. 1980. "Rhetorical devices distinguishing the genre of folktale (fiction) from that of oral history (fact) in Ilianen Manobo narrative discourse."

Pacific

Solomon Islands

• Boswell, Freddy. 2002. "The genres of ’shouted speech’ in Cheke Holo."