utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...

In order to represent large amount of information in form of a video key-frame summary, this paper studies narrative grammar of a comic strip genre and using its natural and inherent sematic rules, lays out summaries in an efficient and user centered way. In addition, a robust real-time algorithm for key-frame extraction is described and the evaluation results are presented.

This study examined the relationship between performance on standardized measures of language proficiency and conversational measures of the same features used in academic discourse among 24 monolingual and 25 bilingual kindergarteners. Academic discourse performance was considered for both its linguistic and its genre features in two discourse forms: narrative and explanation. Bilinguals perfo...

When it comes to computer game genre classifications, we are still forced to navigate a terminology jungle, having to simultaneously consider the game platform, the narrative, the game world milieu and, last but not least, the mode of gameplay. With multiple terms in each of these subcategories the norm, the plethora of descriptive words makes the taxonomy all but impenetrable. And yet a clear ...

Abstract: Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and Body of Evidence are three films that forge a connection between the cinematic femme fatale genre and an imagistic and narrative focus on masochism. The author argues that the foregrounding of masochistic desire acts to complicate our understanding of the male gaze and female spectatorial pleasure; thus, these films present a serious challenge to ...

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of email hoaxing. Email hoaxes are deceptive messages that circulate in digital social networks through the forward function of email programs. The study is embedded in the question of genre change on the Internet: how genres evolve and migrate into the digital medium has recently become a central issue in research on computermediated communication. ...

Our goal in this project is to develop a better understanding of young readers’ difficulties in comprehending text, and how those difficulties vary as a function of reader aptitudes and text genre. Therefore, we examined the effects of reading decoding abilities and world knowledge (assessed using the Woodcock–Johnson III Tests of Achievement) on 61 third-grade readers’ comprehension of narrati...

The assumption about the formal and semantic link between language and genre is the starting point of this study. The absurd in speech is analyzed in texts written by N. Gogol and D. Kharms, while absurd genres are tackled on the basis of the narratives of Dostoevsky, Camus and Sabato. The reality of modern times and all aspects of its artistic representations have altered the form and ideology...

Recent research in reading comprehension supports the hypothesis that readers are aided by textual cohesion. Traditional readability formulas are not able to effectively assess levels of textual cohesion, nor do they account for potential comprehension obstacles caused by differences in genre. This research employs the computational tool, CohMetrix, to assess distributions of both cohesion and ...

Radiology reports, as a form of clinical narrative, are more than a repository of patient information but are active in patient care. They are not unique and individual to each patient but have structured content suitable for supporting the activities of care. We consider these activities of care and how they manifest in the report. This recognition of the infusion of clinical organisation in c...