i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

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This article describes a contrastive study on rhetorical differences between Italian and English sales promotion letters. It is assumed that cultural differences affect discourse genres traditionally considered as standardized, ritual or even formulaic, written business communication being a case in point. It was our goal to investigate how information is presented and what rhetorical strategie...

The articles [22], [14], [25], [15], [1], [20], [3], [4], [16], [26], [11], [13], [12], [5], [6], [21], [9], [8], [10], [2], [7], [18], [23], [19], [24], and [17] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. For simplicity, we adopt the following convention: x, y, X are sets, m, n are natural numbers, O is an ordinal number, and R, S are binary relations. Let D be a set, let f be a part...

The aim of this paper is to better understand the landscape of musical genres. We use public tag data (folksonomies) to these discover genres, and make use of APIs from the music site Last.fm gather tag data for songs and artists. To be comprehensive, a uniform sampling of tag documents will be used. API calls are slow, however, while there are about 100 million artists on the database; so we s...

Connor et al. (2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres” (p.12) as one of the reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each genre should be able to produce and retrieve these textual requirements appropriately to be considered communicatively proficient. One of the textual requirements of genres is regularities of specific forms and content...

This study explored predictors of engagement with specific video game genres, and degree of problem play experienced by players of specific genres, during the early life course. Video game players ages 18-29 (n = 692) were recruited in and around video game retail outlets, arcades, conventions, and other video game related contexts in New York City. Participants completed a Computer-Assisted Pe...