the notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of esp/eap course design. the present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of education and economics. the corpus comprised 40 research article i...

this study aims at explaining informal internet-based chat format with respect to its genre and writing components and system. the researchers analyzed 53 chat samples which were produced by 53 iranian students in high intermediate and advanced levels of english in a private institute while chatting with foreigners. besides the genre analysis, the purposes why people all around the world chat o...

OF THESIS STEREOTYPING THE WEB: GENRE CLASSIFICATION OF WEB DOCUMENTS Retrieving relevant documents over the Web is a difficult task. Currently, search engines rely on keywords for matching documents to user queries. This paper explores the potential for discriminating documents based on the genre of the document. I define genre as a taxonomy that incorporates the style, form and content of a d...

Wedding invitations (WIs), as a uniquely socially and culturally constructed genre, provide a distinct opportunity  to  compare  the  sociocultural values of different  speech  communities  as reflected  in  the  textual  content  and  organization  of  the  different  moves.  Students  can  be exposed  to  this  genre  and  its  different moves  using  a  genre-based  pedagogy. Genre-based ped...

Our research explores the possibility of categorizing webpages and webpage genre by structure or layout. Based on our results, we believe that webpage structure could play an important role, along with textual and visual keywords, in webpage categorization and searching.

The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze the influence availability movie genre, service quality, quality Netflix user satisfaction in Indonesia. This type research quantitative research. variables are satisfaction. data collection technique used a questionnaire with Likert scale measurement scale. number samples 85 samples. analysis multiple linear regression SPSS program. findings ...

in order to develop an understanding of the rhetorical conventions in the persian language and to find out the metadiscursive cultural norms of iranian writers in their native language writings, it is necessary to probe into the implicit rhetorical features of academic writing which has so far eluded a comprehensive systematic characterization. metadiscourse marking, which is supposed to be one...

This article demonstrates the importance of considering transgender speakers apart from gays, lesbians, and bisexuals, even where there is significant overlap in the linguistic practices of these groups. Through an analysis of transgender coming out narratives, it is shown that previous accounts of this genre, which have focused on gays and lesbians, do not extend to the entire LGBT (lesbian, g...

writers ensure the expected (re)construction of concepts in the mind of the audience through effective signposting of the inevitably linear linguistic stream, which is a main aspect of metadiscourse called interactive metadiscourse. in this study, the use of interactive metadiscourse markers in research articles was investigated to examine any probable difference existing between different disc...