Cinnabar and Alabaster

Q & A: "why, when analyzing an Internet genre, one would [always] need a print referent"? "bakhtin's notion of intertextuality among utterances, todorov's remark that genres come '"[q]uite simply from other genres,"' and linell's idea of recontextualization" [is this a definitive answer? how/why do these observations create necessity?]

& also "i am still grappling with the problem of genre and subgenre, e.g., a poem is a genre and a sonnet is a subgenre; a blog is a genre and a warblog is a subgenre"

genre analysts don't all do it the same way--swales' choice is "to research the movement from situation to text, rather than from features of the text to communicative situation" but others reverse it, & "genre analysis, then, calls for a multi-methodological approach, especially if the researcher is studying the text and the communicative situation, or, as swales puts it, if the researcher is doing a 'textography'"

6 "methods one could use in genre analysis": "participant observation, corpus linguistics...discourse analysis, interviews, think-aloud protocol, and citation counts"

+ "methodological complexities": "do we give primary interpretive authority to the writer/speaker of the genre? the audience? the researcher? what about what is not said? how do you find that?"

& one more complication--for baktin utterances have beginnings & endings, but "in a blog post...an utterance, one might have one or several links to other blog posts or to articles in newspapers....those are, albeit by proxy, part of the utterance, and they disrupt an utterance's 'absolute beginning' and 'absolute end.'"