L’épuisement d’un genre littéraire ?

1 Worlds of Genre — Metaphors of Genre

Genre Taxonomy

In this paper, we propose a genre taxonomy as a knowledge repository of communicative structures or “typified actions” enacted by organizational members. The Genre taxonomy aims at helping people to make sense of diverse types of communicative actions, and has three features to achieve this objective. First, the genre taxonomy represents the elements of both genres and genre systems, sequences ...

Genre in Genre: The Role of Music in Music Games

The first academic researchers of music and dance games focused their primary attentions on ethnographic observations of game play, how the shift from arcade to console play affects game play strategies, defining embodied aesthetics, and analyzing the rise of a competitive play circuit in Dance Dance Revolution fan culture [Chan; Demers, 2006; Smith, 2004; Behrenshausen, 2007]. The Dance Dance ...

Genre classification using Balanced Winnow in the DEFT 2014 challenge

In this report we present the work done on the first subtask of the DEFT 2014 challenge which dealt with genre classification of French literary texts. In our approach we developed three types of features : lemmatized words, stylometric features and features that incorporate some form of world knowledge. Subsequent classification experiments were performed using the Balanced Winnow classifier. ...

Narrative versus Style: Effect of Genre Typical Events versus Genre Typical Filmic Realizations on Film Viewers' Genre Recognition

This study investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events. Event cues are similar to the narrative content of a film sequence, while filmic realization cues are similar to stylistic surface cues of a film sequence. It was predicted that genre recogni...