the significance of research article (ra) abstract as a key academic genre has recently motivated analysts to focus on this neglected area. considering a summary function for abstracts, most genre researchers have adopted the conventionally proposed introduction- method- results- discussion (or conclusion) (imrd) model for analysis. however, the problems reported, especially for results and dis...

I analyze the genre preferences of UK film audiences, applying correspondence analysis to data produced for the BFI’s report Opening Our Eyes on the cultural contribution of film. Although there is a weak correlation between the interactively coded variable ‘gender-age’ and genre, I identify clear patterns of genre preferences that extend the original interpretation of this data showing how vie...

In the paper a genre-based, participatory method for content analysis is described. The method was elaborated in the case study conducted for a church where analysis of content units within a set of genres was needed. The experiences imply that the genre-based method could be applied for scrutinizing the content within small and medium sized enterprises. Benefits of the method include user part...

In this paper we describe some explorations of the potential of genre-revealing features on automatic sentiment analysis. In particular, we use a small subset of the ‘linguistic facets’ employed in recent experiments on automatic genre identification in combination with more traditional sentiment-revealing features on two different single-genre corpora: a corpus of English blogs and a corpus of...

A relationship among language, gender, and discourse genre has previously been observed in informal, spoken interaction and formal, written texts. This study investigates the language/gender/genre relationship in weblogs, a popular new mode of computer-mediated communication (CMC). Taking as the dependent variables stylistic features identified in machine learning research and popularized in a ...