A genre-based analysis of the society issue magazine text in Sesotho

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the text-linguistic and genre-analytic properties of Sesotho magazinetexts on society issues. In particular, the model of text construction postulated by Grabe andKaplan (1996) is employed as general theoretical framework for the research on Sesothomagazine texts. The writing properties of effective texts dealing with the theme of societyissues will be analysed, taking into account the ethnography of writing, i.e. the influence ofsocio-cultural beliefs and views on writing in Sesotho.The study will present an extensive invesitgation of the genre approach to writing in thecontext of language teaching. The rationale of the genre approach and its advantages forteaching writing are reviewed. The text-linguistic and genre-analytic properties of texts needto be incorporated in methodology for teaching writing at secondary school.The study presents an extensive analysis of the Sesotho magazine texts as regardproperties such as information structuring (topic-comment, theme-theme), coherencerelations, cohesion and lexical choices as a reflection of communicative purposes. Thelinguistic devices in Seotho that characterise these properties are examined extensively.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University