Under the influence of a new medium, a genre may evolve into variants of the original genre or even into new genre. Genre, even through such evolution, are normally characterized by the tuple, , and little attention is paid to the functionality afforded by the new medium. The combination of the computer and the Internet, however, has resulted in the emergence of cybergenre, a new...

This quasi-experimental study investigated the instructional efficacy of genre-based approach on Iranian EFL learners’motivation for writing. Out of 180 participants, 60 EFL male and female students at university level, with the age range of 19-28, based on a standard profeciency test, Preliminary English Test (PET), were selected and randomly assigned into control and experimental groups. Each...

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 ...

Existing systems for automatic genre classification follows a supervised framework that extracts genre-specific information from manually-labeled music data and then identifies unknown music data. However, such systems may not be suitable for personal music management, because manually labeling music based on individually-defined genres can be labor intensive and subject to inconsistence from t...

In this paper we would like to contribute to the discussion about genre-enabled applications, currently engaging many genre researchers, by presenting a preliminary assessment of a web add-on devised to augment the result list of general-purpose search engines with genre labels. For this assessment, we use a small collection of web pages manually annotated with genre labels by a large number of...

This paper is part of the researcher’s Ph.D. thesis to deploy and develop potential genre-based pedagogy systemic functional linguistics support business-major English language learners’ development persuasive strategies in written discourse online advertisement. Given “value” netvertisement motivating consumption, it vital for non-native speakers preparing participate international e-commerce ...

In Finland, the theory of social pedagogy is not only fixed to certain philosophies. As a science, social pedagogy is based on open communication across theoretical perspectives. In theory and analy­ sis it might be increasingly sophisticated. It might be questionable to speak about a special Finnish interpretation and theory formation of social peda­ gogy, because there is no unified self­conc...

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...