ES dimensión sociocultural / CAT dimensió sociocultural / FR dimension socioculturelle / DE soziokulturelle Dimension

The sociocultural dimension, together with the pragmatic and the textual dimensions, is one of the features of discourse genres that must be analyzed in the teaching and learning of plurilingual discursive competence. The sociocultural dimension is the broadest of the three of them (it actually encompasses the other two), since it is related to the sphere of social activity (Bajtín, 1952-53/1979), which determines the communicative task that the genre performs in a specific discourse field: what need it fulfils, for what purpose and how it is used and, also, what value the speech community which employs it ascribes to it. This dimension, therefore, takes into account critical attitude, since it analyzes the power exercised by whoever knows how to use some particular discourse genres and the interests they serve. These sociocultural characteristics determine the characteristics of the other two dimensions of analysis, which interact permanently, as shown in the following figure: 

References

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