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Oral communication : genres and types of interaction
In order to investigate the issue of genre in oral communication, we take as our starting point two separate uses of this concept : one refers to culturally-socially recognized types of text and the other to forms of discourse organisation. When applied to oral communication, the former corresponds to Hymes’ speech events or Levinson’s activity types, whereas the latter is more aptly described in terms of linguistic, pragmatic and rhetoric features. With this as a foundation, the paper deals with the way in which these two facets can be reconciled, the aim being 1) to sketch out a theoretical model of interaction and 2) to take into account the practical problems one is faced with when analyzing naturally occuring data.