Acquiring proficiency in academic genres is a key factor in research community. Among various genres in academic discourse communities, spoken genre, especially Conference Presentations (CPs), play a crucial role in research communities, though investigation on this important genre is in its infancy or is relatively under-researched. Therefore, the present study aims to shed light on the import...

Does genre affect the way we communicate? We are especially interested in how computer mediation affects the style and content of communication. In an effort to find features related to choice of genre, we have created correlated corpora of writing and speech samples from a single population of subjects. All written and spoken text was opinion-related with topics prescribed and moderated. This ...

Cruickshank and Collins [2] ‘Advancing Leadership in Sport: Time to Take Off the Blinkers?’ has created something of a furore around the effectiveness and suitability of dark leadership traits and behaviours. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual issues discussed within their paper, while also redressing a number of literary misrepresentations. Finally, the potential limitations...

While large data dependent techniques have made advances in between-genre classification, the identification of subtypes within a genre has largely been overlooked. In this paper, we approach automatic classification of within-genre Bundeli folk music into its subgenres; Gaari, Rai and Phag. Bundeli, which is a dominant dialect spoken in a large belt of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh has a ri...

Genre studies have its reach in almost all of the written materials available either through printed copies or online publication. Studies genre provided a glimpse structure and order which spoken text are constructed. The importance analysis lens cannot be understated. study aimed at investigating textual features that identify restaurant menus as genre. From moves/steps lexico-grammar, five m...

This paper describes and evaluates the automatic grammatical annotation of a chat and an e-mail corpus of together 117 million words, using a modular Constraint Grammar system. We discuss a number of genre-specific issues, such as emoticons and personal pronouns, and offer a linguistic comparison of the two corpora with corresponding annotations of the Europarl corpus and the spoken and written...

Automatic sentence segmentation of spoken language is an important precursor to downstream natural language processing. Previous studies combine lexical and prosodic fea19 tures, but can impose significant computational challenges because of the large size of feature sets. Little is understood about which features most benefit performance, partic21 ularly for speech data from different speaking...

This paper is a presentation of a doctoral research in progress focused on a new genre: online encyclopaedias. The introduction to Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica Online will be followed by a presentation of wiki as a new textual genre. Wikipedia analysis will focus firstly on the investigation of the “WikiLanguage”, the language used in official encyclopaedic articles. Secondly, the “Wi...

This article focuses on the ability to use linguistic forms in ways that are appropriate to the constraints of genre (expository discourse) and modality (writing and speech) in the course of monologic text production, as an ability whose development spans many years and requires considerable experience and schooling. The use of the French subject clitic on is examined in written and spoken expo...