On Vijay K . Bhatia : Analysing Genre : Language Use in Professional Set - tings ( 1993 )
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This short review, along with the other reviews in this issue of Hermes, sets out to give a brief description of Vijay K. Bhatia’s work of 1993 Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. Since four general reviews inevitably would overlap massively, they each focus on one particular aspect of Bhatia (1993). I shall, nevertheless, present a very brief review of the book in general. For the main part of the review, I have chosen to focus on the model for genre analysis consisting of seven steps which should be followed if one is “to undertake a comprehensive investigation of any genre” (Bhatia, 1993: 22).
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