This paper argues that narrative elements from the science fiction (SF) literary genre are used in the discourse of Nanoscience and Technology (NST) to bridge the gap between what is technically possible today and its inflated promises for the future. The argument is illustrated through a detailed discussion of two NST texts. The paper concludes by arguing that the use of SF narrative technique...

As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and structural principles of classification. We propose a theory of genres as bundles of facets, which correlate with various surface cues, and argue that genre detection based on surface cues is as successful as detection b...

The article looks into the global literary perspective presented in I. S. Shmelev’s novel “The Lord’s Summer” through the author’s special organization of the time scene, the characters’ language or speech system and genre specific features as well.  In particular, it is noted that, through spatial reference points the author's system of values is expres...