This study investigated whether film viewers recognize four basic genres (comic, drama, action and nonfiction) on the basis of genre-typical event cues or of genretypical filmic realization cues of events. Event cues are similar to the narrative content of a film sequence, while filmic realization cues are similar to stylistic surface cues of a film sequence. It was predicted that genre recogni...

Taking a genre perspective on design, this article proposes eight design recommendations for online newspapers. These recommendations are based on features that mediate a specific purpose and use between publisher and audience, which we describe as genre rules in terms of purpose, form, and positioning. They are also based on genre change regarding design, and the heritage from print regarding ...

There has been a growing interest in genre as a powerful means of analysing and understanding texts in cross-disciplinary areas. Genres tend to be conceived as generic structures that constrain individuals and communicative events. In second language writing pedagogy, much attention has been given to raising ESL (English as a Second Language) students’ structural awareness of genres as the rout...

conclusions the sex differences in the neuroanatomy of the human mirror neuron system affect functional recovery of patients with hemiparesis. the improvement in studied women was found to be significantly greater than studied men. the results indicate a higher chance of recovery among hemiparetic women, especially those watching functional movies. results comparison of all variables related to...

This paper presents a qualitative content analysis of three recent Malayalam movies that feature LGBTQIA+ themes: Njan Merikutty (2018), Moothon (2019), and Varthamanam (2020). The study aimed to explore the representation community in popular its impact on social perception. research design was thematic movies, based multiple viewings note-taking by researchers. data were analyzed iteratively,...

The previous chapter reviewed three traditions of genre studies, namely, the new rhetoric, systemic functional and ESP perspectives on genre. While new rhetoric genre analyses focus on the interrelation between text and context and SFL genre studies stress the linguistic analysis of text, ESP approaches to genre take an approach that is some way between these two. This chapter extends the discu...

In order to represent musical content, pitch and timing information is utilized in the majority of existing work in Symbolic Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Symbolic representations such as MIDI allow the easy calculation of such information and its manipulation. In contrast, most of the existing work in Audio MIR uses timbral and beat information, which can be calculated using automatic com...

this study aims at uncovering the effect(s) of genre-based instruction (gbi) on listening proficiency among iranian efl learners. moreover, it seeks to explore the relationship between effectiveness of gbi and listening proficiency. for this purpose, 68 efl learners in two different groups at zabol university were selected. group a included 30 participants (12 males and 18 females), and group b...

gavaznha(deer) and kandu(hive) as two of the pre-revolutionary movies in the history of iranian cinema carry signs of the iranian new wave. since these movies were somehow the social reality of their time, they succeeded in having a different influence on the minds of social actors. on the other hand, developing the screenplay’s characters in these two movies was quite distinct from the routine...

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...