TY - JOUR AU - Giltrow, Janet PY - 2020/08/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Notes on Anne Freadman’s Tardy Response JF - Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie JA - DW/R VL - 30 IS - 0 SE - Special: Reflections on "Genre as Social Action" DO - 10.31468/cjsdwr.845 UR - https://journals.sfu.ca/dwr/index.php/dwr/article/view/845 SP - 141-151 AB - <p>So far, I have not been troubled by <em>exigence</em>, finding it a usefully modified version of <em>motive</em>. Now, though, following Freadman’s analysis, I recognize that the concept can interfere with orderly accounts of change, and also with what people call <em>mixture</em> or <em>hybridity</em>, which themselves seem to bid for change. I can see uses for <em>communities of use </em>(Miller, 2017), although I prefer Bakhtin’s (1986) “spheres of activity,” with its focus on what groups of people do, rather than what they say. I realize now that my complacency about these terms—and others—may be owing to my habit of summoning them to introduce <em>genre</em> to a new audience, usually one likely to think of genre as formal structure, if they think of genre at all. Or to frame for a genre-familiar audience an entry to new but related concerns.</p> ER -