Genre repertoire

"The set of genres that are routinely enacted by the members of a community" (Orlikowski & Yates, 1994, p. 542).

Reference: 

Orlikowski, W.J., and Yates, J. (1994). Genre repertoire: The structuring of communicative practices in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly 39, 541-574.  

Other Notable Uses: 

Erickson, T. (2000). Making sense of computer-mediated communication (CMC): Conversations as genres, CMC systems as genre ecologies. In 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, ed. R. H. Sprague, Jr. Maui: IEEE Computer Society Press.

Original Use: 

Orlikowski, W.J., and Yates, J. (1994). Genre repertoire: The structuring of communicative practices in organizations. Administrative Science Quarterly 39, 541-574.   Originally, application was to the genres enacted by professionals engaged in an inter-organizational, multi-year project in their e-mail communications.

Contributed by: 

Emerging Genres class, N.C. State University, Spring 2010

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