Review article

Genre features of damage reports

Milena Dževerdanović ; University of Montenegro, Faculty of Maritime Studies Kotor, Kotor, Montenegro

Abstract

During the last decades, genre-based analysis has been extensively applied to establishing conventional discourse patterns of different sorts of texts. Rather than identifying grammatical features of a specific text, genre analysts primarily focus on research on the institutional setting in which a particular genre is generated. Typical genres embedded in a maritime discourse community have already been identified (log books, engine reports, telex wording, curricula vitae). Yet, a lack of intertextual knowledge is evident, i.e. the explanation of how these particular genres correlate with the actual (maritime) setting.
In this light, this paper aims to apply genre-based tools in empirical analysis of damage reports written by marine surveyors. By use of the deductive method, the analysis goes from the texts as a unit (macrostructure) to the analysis of its characteristic elements (microstructure). Due to the lack of space, one complete damage report, out of the 20 texts making the sample, was illustrated in this paper.

Keywords

genre analysis; discourse patterns; maritime setting; damage reports

Hrčak ID:

38371

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/38371

Publication date:

29.6.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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