linguisticgenre
Linguistic genre refers to the categories into which texts or utterances are classified based on their purpose, audience, and conventionalized structural features. These categories are not arbitrary but arise from recurrent social and communicative situations. For example, a news report, a recipe, a poem, and a casual conversation are all considered linguistic genres. Each genre has typical linguistic characteristics, such as specific vocabulary, grammatical structures, rhetorical devices, and organizational patterns.
Understanding linguistic genre is crucial for both producers and consumers of language. For writers, genre conventions
The concept of genre is dynamic and can vary across cultures and historical periods. What constitutes a