2019-03-05 Day 1
语类研究的意义
人类活动不是杂乱无章的，而是以目的为导向、分步骤、有规律的活动。虽然个体的单个社会活动从其物质基础来说独一无二，但人们会对其所属文化中的成员的社会活动做符号性解释、分析、比较，把具有复现的共同特征的社会活动加以类型化。当这种类型化的社会活动模式能恰当地处理新环境中的问题，这个社会活动类型会沉淀下来，形成语类。所以研究鱼类就是研究人类社会活动的类型、探索人类社会活动的本质规律。
2019-03-06 Day 2
悉尼学派语类研究的出发点：上世纪80年代，大部分学生只会运用观察/评论和讲述等语类来简单描述、评论自己所见的事物或讲述切身的经历，而对报告、描述、解释等其他语类不了解。老师也缺乏基础，导致小学阶段的写作没能为中学阶段的写作和阅读打好基础。Martin&Rose希望借助对语类的识别与研究来改变这一现状。
2019-03-07 Day 3
Schematic structure:recurrent local patterns within genres
Working definition of genres :
①staged→take more than one step to reach goals
②goal oriented→feel frustrated if not accomplish the final steps
③social→shape texts for readers of particular kinds
Functional linguistic definition of genres: a recurrent configuration of meaning and that these recurrent configurations of meaning enact the social practices of a given culture
2019-03-08 Day 4
1.2 Where did we turn?
①Mitchell: research in the Libyan market place he wrote the classic Firthian study of language in relation to context of situation - focusing on what came to be known as the service encounter genre
② Hasan: a paper in the text structure which focused on appointment making
③ Labov & Waletzky: paper on the narratives of personal experience in Labov's corpus also fused on schematic structure, including obligatory and optional staging
