This paper discusses the cognitive process (es) in recognizing instances of genre and the effects of generic features have on recognition of genre. Following the ESP tradition, the paper takes the communicative purpose as the defining feature of a genre and follow Martin’s stratified model of language and context in for the analysis. Based on a preliminary study conducted among three geologists...

This paper explores the current affordances and limitations of video game genre from a library and information science perspective with an emphasis on classification theory. We identify and discuss various purposes of genre relating to video games, including identity, collocation and retrieval, commercial marketing, and educational instruction. Through the use of examples, we discuss the ways i...

The genre theory has been earlier introduced as a means for analyzing organizational communication. The terms hard and soft information genre have been employed to refer to the extent and explicity of the rules that the genres are enacted by in a particular communication community. People have widely learned to use genres without explicit rules for their purpose, structure, and other features. ...

The digital version of the newspaper broadsheet is the basis of an evolving genre capable of supporting more than just the presentation of electronic news. The phrase, “broadsheet genre”, refers to both the broadsheet form and the characteristics of the content presented in this form. When the content is electronic news, it is not unlike a print newspaper supplemented with video and radio compo...

RPG is a game genre that focuses the cooperative interaction among players, as well as socialization and the improvement of communication skills. As these actions form the very context of these games, RPGs have an inherent level of decision-making that naturally occurs at all times throughout the course of the game. Those reasons led the idea to take advantage of the RPG genre to design a model...

Content management is focused on managing a variety of content such as Web sites, documents, and content integrated from multiple sources. Genres communicative types with similar substance and form can be thought of as prototypical, user-defined models of the content used in recurrent work tasks. This paper discusses a study in which the theory and research findings related to genres were opera...

An online discussion forum becomes more significant in facilitating people to share opinions. Companies must understand how consumers use the online forum. We study an influential online discussion forum in Thailand, Pantip.com, in order to classify user behaviors in the cosmetic discussion forum. We adopt the concept of genre and genre repertoire to assist our content analysis. We analyze 77 d...

How to characterize a literary genre is a much debated problem, which can be approached with useful results by combining models drawn from both Literary Theory and Computer Science. Once a genre is specified with some rigour in a constructive way, it becomes possible not only to determine whether a given plot is a legitimate representative of the genre, but also to generate such plots, an abili...

The concept of genre is as old as literary theory itself, but centuries of debate haven’t produced much consensus on the topic. Part of the reason is that genre looks like a different thing at different points in the life of a text. Scholars of rhetoric tend to focus on the patterns of communicative action that produce memoranda or tragedies (Devitt 2004; Miller 1984). Sociologists are sometime...