Amy J. Devitt

List of John Benjamins publications in which Amy J. Devitt is involved.

Articles

Devitt, Amy J. 2009 Re-fusing form in genre study Genres in the Internet: Issues in the theory of genre, Giltrow, Janet and Dieter Stein (eds.), pp. 27–48 | Article

Current theories of genre based in action neglect form. While recognizing that genre study needed to reject earlier formalism, this chapter argues that genre necessarily encompasses form as part of the fusion of form, substance, and action and should be re-examined as contextualized form. Neither… read more

Hartman, J.W. and Amy J. Devitt 1980 Review of Kretschmar, McMillan, Pederson, Shuy & Udell (1979): Dialects in Culture: Essays in General Dialectology by Raven /. McDavid, Jr. & Dil (1980): Varieties of American English: Essays by Raven I. McDavid, Jr. English World-Wide 1:2, pp. 270–273 | Review