Genre classification means to discriminate between documents by means of their form, their style, or their targeted audience. Put another way, genre classification is orthogonal to a classification based on the documents’ contents. While most of the existing investigations of an automated genre classification are based on news articles corpora, the idea here is applied to arbitrary Web pages. W...

it holds true that a flourishing fieldof contrastive rhetoric (cr) research has begun to address theway various text types and/or genres may differ across culturesand languages (corner, 1996).  very much in line withthis development, this study was an attempt to characterizethe linguistic structures of headlines in the sports section of 2 english newspapers: one non-iranian (the times) and one ...

Drawing from genre theory in organizational communication (Yates & Orlikowski, 1992), this study examines the content and function of email signatures used by organizational members. Email signatures are appended at the end of email messages and contain information about the sender such as his or her title, postal address, and phone number. One hundred and ninety-three email signatures were col...

There is a limited geographical literature on the evolution of networks in distinct music genres. This gap is addressed here via an analysis of empirical evidence on the Finnish metal music genre, specifically utilising a questionnaire survey of Finnish metal music bands. The results show that, in terms of networking, local buzz is more important for bands that reside in large cities compared t...

The mora timing organization for producing contrastive geminate/single consonants and long/short vowels is a difficult task for non-native speakers of Japanese. This paper investigates characteristics of the segment durations involved in the production of contrastive phonemes by native Japanese speakers and Chinese-speaking subjects, when the speaking rate is changed. From the statistical regre...