ABSTRACT
Genre analysis is an important area within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) orientated studies (but see also STYLISTICS). The first use of the term in relation to ESP is Swales’ (1981), who means by it ‘a system of analysis that is able to reveal something of the patterns of organisation of a “genre” and the language used to express those patterns’ (Dudley-Evans, 1987, p. 1).
