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Preliminaries - the relationship between genre, social structure andculture: introduction; genre theory; why is genre theory useful forcross-cultural research?; what counts as similiar?; the data and method, theparticipants, the format of the classes; an overview of the study. A closerlook at genre and related concepts: introduction; what is genre?; genre andsocial theory; related work in other fields, knowledge schemata, interactiveframes, the relationship between knowledge schemata and interactive frames;genre theory, genre in rhetoric, genre in sociology, genre in anthropology,genre in linguistics; a definition of genre; summary. Regularities at thelevel of interaction - the structure of participation: introduction;participation structure; an overview of the cooking class participationstructures, the non-demonstration portions of the classes, the cookingdemonstrations; participation structures found in the dominant communication,the default participation structure, other participation structures occurringin the dominant communication; participation structures found in thesubordinate communication; participation structures over time; genres andintertexuality; previous work on Japanese culture; summary. Regularities atthe level of discourse - the content of the talk: introduction; contentdifference in the Japanese and American classes, the content of the Americancooking lessons, the content of the Japanese cooking lessons; a comparison ofthe content of a Japanese cooking demonstration and an American cookingdemonstration; students' motivations for participating in the classes;comparisons of Japanese and American interaction in other genres; summary.Regularities at the level of grammar - clause structure and transitivity:introduction; communicative function; clause type, English clauses, Japaneseclauses; clause type and communicative function; discussion of the findingsconcerning clause type and communicative function; transitivity, thedatabases, the event scale; transitivity/intransitive clauses in theteachers' talk, intransitive clauses and clauses with two or more arguements,clauses with two or more arguements and transistivity as a scalar property,transitivity and communicative function; discussion of the transitivityfindings; summary. Conclusion - a summary of the findings and some issues forfurther research.