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 ...

This study introduces a Genre Purity Assessment Tool (GPAT). GPAT calculates genre purity by using SIF n-graphs (statistically improbable graph strings) to identify genre characteristics in text. The study describes the tool and assesses it across five experiments that feature a variety of text types and text lengths. The results demonstrate that GPAT is at least as effective as a system that u...

old and modern orators have applied poetic formats to express their concerns in a beautiful manner since the music and rhythm of poetry makes the content more effective.the phenomenon of poetry is not exclusive to any special civilization but rather exists in all nations.bedouins have an innate interest in poetry due to the environment of the desert which is very imaginative.the present article...

The present study investigated the effect of single and multiple genre movies on listening comprehension of upper intermediate language learners. To this end, a language proficiency test was administered to 40 male and female postgraduates of different majors attending International English Language Testing System (IELTS) classes and ultimately 25 upper intermediate language learners were selec...

The genre of sales promotion communication can be perceived as social processes; they are apt to be dynamic and evolving. The genre can be realized through socially recognized forms of texts; these forms arise from recurrent social situations and gradually become conventionalized and typified responses to similar situations. Each form is realized through a schematic structure, which refers to t...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...

The beauty of Tang poetry is expressed in the combination of content and form. If the form is not well reproduced in the process of translation, the integrity of Tang poetry would be impaired to a great extent. By looking at different translations of Tang poetry, it is found that formal reproduction happens where there already exist the similar poetic forms in the target language; such forms as...

hij? or satire is a genre of poetry that emerges, both spontaneously and through conscious effort, from the depth of the poet’s soul to relieve him of his inner anguish and is followed by resentment of the one being satirized. in the same way as there exist certain motives or factors behind the orientation of poets towards a specific genre of poetry, there are also certain factors involved in t...