Famílias de gêneros e novas formas comunicativas para a ciência

CIAPUSCIO GUIOMAR ELENA

Calidoscópio

Unisinos

Lugar: Sao Leopoldo; Año: 2009 vol. 7 p. 243 - 252

1679-8740

Economic, social and cultural transformations and, in particular, the globalization of communicative exchanges facilitated by the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)  have undoubtedly made the genres used by discourse communities to engage in communicative practices more complex and diversified, with the consequent impact on the field of linguistic research on genres. In this work I raise questions concerning how these changes have influenced linguistic research and how genre relations can be captured and systematized. I will argue that genres can be better understood in terms of “families” (Bergmann y Luckmann, 1995), oriented to the solution of social and individual tasks. I will also propose that particular genres within a family play specific roles in the tasks or sub-tasks of a given field. For this purpose, I distinguish two well-differentiated families in science communication, a) the research genres (production and validation of knowledge), and b) the genres for communication of science to society (popularization of knowledge).