The article discusses humorous conversational activities ((e.g. jokes, teasing, joint fantasizing) in the context of genre theory. high degree creativity, emergent construction and artistry typical humor call for a flexible concept which makes sense modifications transgressions communicative processes. Some forms are generic, example, standardized fantasizing or teasing. Other exploit our knowl...

Speech can be divided into discourse genres based on the contextual environment it occurs in (e.g. political speech, sport commentary speech, etc.). The present study investigated whether listeners can distinguish between speech from different discourse genres on the basis of acoustic prosodic cues only . In a perception experiment with delexicalized speech 70 listeners with varying experience ...

INTRODUCTION "We of the craft (poets) are all crazy," remarked the 18th century British romanticist Lord Byron (George Gordon) about himself and his fellow poets. Implied in this statement is the notion that there exists a special kind of relationship between poets and being "crazy". A relationship between psychopathology and the artistic temperament is one of the oldest and most persistent of ...

The recent progress of Electronic Music Distribution creates a natural pressure for fine-grained musical metadata. This metadata is needed to provide music distribution services which are able to cope with the mere size of music catalogues, and the desire of users to access music titles by similarity. In this context, we describe a project of a global music title metadatabase, and focus in the ...

Music recommendation systems can observe user’s personal preferences and suggest new tracks from a large online catalog. In the case of context-aware recommenders, user’s current emotional state plays an important role. One simple way to visualize emotions and moods is graphical emoticons. In this study, we researched a high-level mapping between genres, as descriptions of music, and emoticons,...

Previous studies have found a positive relationship between exposure to fiction and interpersonal sensitivity. However, it is unclear whether exposure to different genres of fiction may be differentially related to these outcomes for readers. The current study investigated the role of four fiction genres (i.e., Domestic Fiction, Romance, Science-Fiction/Fantasy, and Suspense/Thriller) in the re...

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. ...