The analysis of genre in target communication situations is called

• A. Genre analysis
• B. Textual analysis
• C. Discourse analysis
• D. Pragmatics

Answer: (B)

When you look at how a genre shows up in a real communication situation, the focus is on the text itself—the way it is organized, the words and phrases chosen, the sentence structures, and the rhetorical moves that signal a particular genre in that context. This is textual analysis. It analyzes how these textual features work together to convey purpose and meaning within the target situation, helping you see exactly why the text fits a specific genre there. In other words, you study how the text’s form and content realize the genre in that situation. Discourse analysis would examine broader language use across longer stretches of talk, pragmatics would focus on meaning and intent in context, and genre analysis would categorize patterns across texts, but the question targets understanding how the genre is instantiated in a given text, which textual analysis best captures.