[Corpora-List] The genre of the Web

[Mark P. Line]

Mark Davies wrote:
>
> On the other hand, does it even make sense to try and relate the overall
> genre orientation of the web to one of these four or five discrete
> genres?
>  Would it be better to simply refer to it as as mix of GENRE1 + GENRE2?
> Going even further, does it make sense to even try and relate the web to
> pre-defined genres, rather than perhaps just referring to it as its own
> "Web" register?


I don't think of the Web as a genre at all. I think of it as a medium.

It's a very flexible medium, in fact, because it seems to carry all genres
effectively.


-- Mark

Mark P. Line
Polymathix
San Antonio, TX