From a Systemic Semiotic perspective, instances of organisational communication (texts) and their general patterns (text types or genres) are treated as distinct from workplace action and their general patterns (action types). Administrative and Manufacturing systems demonstrate how genres and action types are discursively organised into workpractices. Different kinds of action can be identifie...

The combination of the computer and the Internet has resulted in the emergence of cybergenre, a new class of genre. Cybergenre can be characterized by the triple, , where functionality refers to the capabilities afforded by this new medium. When an existing genre initially migrates to this new medium, it is usually as a faithful reproduction of the existing genre i...

The editorial introduction shows the richness of traditional literary genres (fictional and non-fictional), new cultural practices (digital literature, games, playable media) in which second-person address may be encountered. presence a direct to “you” (indi­vidual or collective) is also distinct marker contemporary marketing, advertising, so­cial media communication. There number transitional ...

Musical genres are labels used to distinguish between different types or categories of musical style. The growing amount of music that is available electronically, particularly in the World Wide Web, creates an arising need for automated classification. A typical application could be plugins for music management software or some sort of tool that automatically tags audio files according to its ...

A desired property of a measure of connective strength in bigrams is that the measure should be insensitive to corpus size. This paper investigates the stability of three different measures over text genres and expansion of the corpus. The measures are (1) the commonly used mutual information, (2) the difference in mutual information, and (3) raw occurrence. Mutual information is further compar...

The biopsychosocial model is the conceptual status quo of contemporary psychiatry. Although it has played an important role in combatting psychiatric dogmatism, it has devolved into mere eclecticism. Other non-reductionistic approaches to medicine and psychiatry such as William Osler's medical humanism or Karl Jaspers' method-based psychiatry should be reconsidered.