Taking a genre perspective on design, this article proposes eight design recommendations for online newspapers. These recommendations are based on features that mediate a specific purpose and use between publisher and audience, which we describe as genre rules in terms of purpose, form, and positioning. They are also based on genre change regarding design, and the heritage from print regarding ...

There has been a growing interest in genre as a powerful means of analysing and understanding texts in cross-disciplinary areas. Genres tend to be conceived as generic structures that constrain individuals and communicative events. In second language writing pedagogy, much attention has been given to raising ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ structural awareness of genres as the rout...

The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

Argumentative interactions in online asynchronous communication are seldom studied by using a qualitative approach as Grounded Theory Methods. The purpose of this paper is about a theory of argumentation based on analysis of teacher-student and learner-learner dialogues. By examining linguistic features of the threads related to the forum of two different academic courses, we consider the struc...

While neural networks have been successfully used in a number of machine learning applications, logical languages have been the standard for the representation of legal and argumentative reasoning [6]. In this paper, we present a new hybrid model of computation that allows for the deduction and learning of argumentative reasoning. We do so by using Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems to translate ...

Among the activities that people participate in on the Social Web are argumentative discussions and decision making. This paper analyzes a series of use-cases (from the perspective of social media sites) that share the presence of such argumentative discussions and where the structure of online discussions can be represented in SIOC. Our goal is to externalize implicit argumentation structures ...

Decanter illustrates a heuristic approach to extraction for information retrieval and question answering. Generic information about argumentative text is found and stored, easing user-focused, questiondriven access to the core information. The emphasis is placed on the argumentative dimension, to address in particular three types of questions: “What are the points?”, “Based on what?” “What are ...

In argumentation-based negotiation the rhetorical illocutionary particles Appeals, Rewards and Threats have implications for the players that extend beyond a single negotiation and are concerned with building (business) relationships. This paper extends an agent’s relationship-building argumentative repertoire with Opinions and Advice. A framework is described that enables agents to model their...

Argumentation in writing research articles is very crucial for showing the position of authors a certain science field, but social and humanity are still lower skill argumentation. This investigated using impact Genre Based Approach (GBA) training mentoring Research Article improving argumentation RA. The aim this study to describe activity learning teaching by GBA RA on RAs writing. material s...