James Stevens CurlMaking Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism Oxford University Press, 2018

As imaginary good places located elsewhere and/or in another time, literary utopias may articulate nostalgic yearnings for an irretrievable past, but more significantly, they express socio-political discontent with the present and anticipations future. The role of memory is thus central utopian configurations since better alternatives primarily by “remembering” evaluating specific historical co...

Dystopias are no longer defined as the opposite of utopias and mostly described by referring to type system they depict - “perfectly planned beneficial”, unjust” or unplanned” (Gordin, Tilley, Prakash 2010, 2). Furthermore, dystopias said reflect societies’ worries warn about some flaws religious, political systems, science in terms relationships between past, present, future. George Orwell’s “...

This study reports on the findings of a genre teaching course for developing academic writing of a class of EFL students in Iran. The information report genre was taught in a cyclical way of teaching and learning, which was started from ‘setting the context’ and ‘deconstruction’ of prototype information report genre, and continued with ‘joint construction’, ‘independent construction’, and final...

In this study, we analyze two corpora of art critiques: one on the subject of photography and the other on the subject of modern art. We use two computational tools, the Gramulator and GPAT to analyze both sets of texts. The Gramulator was used to show the indicative linguistic features that make photography criticism a distinct genre from modern art criticism. Results suggest that lexical feat...

Societal conflicts with regard to risk management are common. The public has different beliefs than many experts and administrators with regard to such issues as the citing of a repository for spent nuclear fuel or whether genetically modified organisms should be allowed to enter the human food chain. As a result, political tensions arise and there may be a skew allocation of resources for risk...

Klebsiella, a bacterial genre which includes species frequent involved in human pathology, produces a wide range of infections, sometimes severe and difficult to treat. Our retrospective study was made in the Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Braşov and included the Klebsiella strains isolated from various pathological products of the patients hospitalized in 2010. The study shows the wide ...

Instructional text, and procedural text in particular, is a genre that users heavily rely upon when they are learning new procedures, devices or systems. It is, however, also well-known to be a genre that is difficult to produce and maintain. This article discusses Isolde, an environment that attempts to address this problem by supporting the semi-automated production of procedural instructions...