Current theorizing on genre within Systemic Functional Linguiscs (SFL) as well as other traditions of genre analysis have not paid much attention to the interrelationship between the notions of rhetorical mode and genre. In this paper I argue that rhetorical mode may be an important notion in genre studies and that it should thus be foregrounded. I elaborate on the different linguisti... https://www.mariameetsanna.com/product-category/paddle-brush/