RUME 25
2023
Omaha, Nebraska
A Genre Analysis of Mathematical Remarks
Page: 1228
This report describes the preliminary results of a genre analysis of mathematical remarks, which was conducted using Bhatia’s (1993) seven-step genre analysis model. As part of the analysis, discussion threads on Mathematics Stack Exchange about mathematical remarks were analyzed as well as a corpus of remarks from first-year mathematics lecture notes of a British university. An overarching communicative purpose and seven non-mutually exclusive “mini communicative purposes” (Hyon, 2018, p. 30) of the genre of mathematical remarks are identified