%0 Journal Article
%T SHAPING MEANINGS THROUGH GENRE: An Analysis of a Personal Experience Narrative in a Graduate Course
%A ADRIANA N¨®BREGA KUSCHNIR
%J L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature
%D 2009
%I IAIMTE
%X The purpose of this study is to investigate oral narratives of personal experience told in thegraduate classroom and viewed here as a genre (Martin & Rose, 2007). Narratives of personal experienceare ubiquitous in everyday life and work as a means of re-constructing experience (Bruner, 1997, 1994).In this research, narratives of personal experience are examined according to narrative and evaluationtheory (Cortazzi & Jin, 2001; Martin, 2001; Martin & White, 2005) to investigate how evaluation occursin these texts and how they work as a pedagogic tool. Through the analysis of this genre, a directconnection between narratives of personal experience and the social construction of knowledge can behighlighted.
%K personal experience narrative
%K appraisal
%K pedagogic genre
%K knowledge construction
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