Abstract Genre-based approach has been the focus of interest in the teaching of language since the mid1980s. Genre is defined in terms of the use of language in conventionalized communicative settings. The present study made an attempt to scrutinize the effects of genre-based pedagogy on Iranian Pre-intermediate EFL leaners' reading comprehension as well as the interaction between their reading...

Genre provides a characterization of a document with respect to its form or functional trait. Genre is orthogonal to topic, rendering genre information a powerful filter technology for information seekers in digital libraries. However, an efficient means for genre classification is an open and controversially discussed issue. This paper gives an overview and presents new results related to auto...

The command crisis as a story line has been used in many references of the cinema war genre throughout years, but it is stories framed under surface sea where can reach its greatest destabilization capacity. films subgenre suggested to exemplify this study are North American Run Silent Deep (Robert Wise, 1958) and Crimson Tide (Tony Scott, 1995). Both were produced during post-war era narrate r...

In this article we analyzed digital games as a mode of memory production and preservation especially in the genre World War II games. Using Japanese-produced PS3 game, Valkyria Chronicles (2008), demonstrated ideological aspects type (re)shaping through what called “allegorithmic memory” process. Borrowing from Alexander R. Galloway’s conception “allegorithm,” argued that combination narrative ...

Studies reveal a strong relationship between personality and preferred musical genre. Our study explored this relationship using a new methodology: genre dispersion among people’s mobile-phone music collections. By analyzing the download behaviours of genre-defined user subgroups, we investigated the following questions: (1) do genre-preferring subgroups show distinct patterns of genre consumpt...

Polybius and the art of war: proposal for identification some passages from his lost Treatise on tactics – retains in Histories traces an expert military historiography, a genre that he had previously cultivated, probably early youth years. From testimonies such as Aelianus Tacticus (I 2) including among writers genre, author’s own testimony regarding treatise Commentaries (Ὑπομνήματα περὶ τὰς ...

Abstract This article examines the reception of two American artists during Salzburg Festival 1959 in context Cold War cultural diplomacy. While Austria had just become an independent republic again 1955, was experiencing a second occupation, this time at Austrian invitation. The reasons for and ways which audiences critics interpreted these performances idea music—through genre, personality, p...

In this paper we argue that a combination of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Genre Theory can constitute a theoretical framework for understanding how digital genres evolve. Genre theory states that genres evolve over time through reciprocal interaction between institutionalized practices and individual action; that they develop from actors’ responses to recurrent situations, and are shaped ar...

Abstract We explore a simple, web-based method for predicting the genre of a given artist based on co-occurrence analysis, i.e. analyzing co-occurrences of artist and genre names on music-related web pages. To this end, we use the page counts provided by Google to estimate the relatedness of an arbitrary artist to each of a set of genres. We investigate four different query schemes for obtainin...