[Corpora-List] Typology of Internet textual genres

[Ana Rita Remígio]

Dear all,

Thank you so much for all your help on this hard question of Internet 
Genres.
As far as I could notice, though it is a recent area of research, or at 
least, at an early stage, much has been written about it and some good 
points/conclusions can be found.
I am aware of the fact that it is humanly impossible to have identified all 
existing genres, specially because things change very fast in the internet. 
And things are not black and  white.
Marina Santini made some very interesting points and I hope I don't come to 
classifiy some documents as <undetermined>...
The idea of having a 'microgenre' can be interesting as well. Or we may even 
think in terms of 'prototype genres'...

All the best,
Ana

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa at bestweb.net>
To: "Marina Santini" <marinamailinglists at gmail.com>
Cc: "Ana Rita Remígio" <anaritaremigio at ua.pt>; <corpora at uib.no>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Typology of Internet textual genres


> That point about defining genres is no different from the issues
> involved in defining any naturally occurring concept:
>
> > We are in the phase that you describe so neatly: some documents
> > easily fit into a genre, and consequently some genres are easy
> > to identify (e.g. FAQs), while other documents are not easy to
> > classify in terms of genre...
>
> Alan Cruse made the point that no word has a fixed set of senses,
> and he coined the term "microsense" for the fine subdivisions
> that are possible for any word. (Refs below)
>
> I noticed that Google has 28,200 hits for "microsense" and
> 322 hits for "microgenre".
>
> John Sowa
> ____________________________________________________________________
>
> Cruse, D. Alan (2000) "Aspects of the micro-structure of word meanings," 
> in Ravin & Leacock (2000) pp. 30-51.
>
> Cruse, D. Alan (2002) "Microsenses, default specificity and the 
> semantics-pragmatics boundary," Axiomathes 1, 1-20.
>
> Ravin, Yael, & Claudia Leacock, eds. (2000) Polysemy: Theoretical and 
> Computational Approaches, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
>
> 


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