The Pleasures of Polyglossia in Emirati Cinema: Focus on From A to B and Abdullah [PDF]
Polyglot films highlight the coexistence of multiple languages at the level of dialogue and narration. Even the notoriously monolingual Hollywood film industry has recently seen an increase in polyglot productions.
Doris Hambuch
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Always Already in Flux: A Response to Anne Freadman
Carolyn Miller’s rich and theoretically complex 1984 essay “Genre as Social Action” has been widely influential among scholars who have been variously identified as part of Rhetorical Genre Studies (Freedman, 1999), North American Genre Studies (Freedman
Charles Bazerman
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Can We Programme Utopia? The Influence of the Digital Neoliberal Discourse on Utopian Videogames [PDF]
This article has a dual purpose. The first is to establish the relationship between videogames and utopia in the neoliberal era and clarify the origins of this compromise in the theoretical dimension of game studies.
Navarrete-Cardero, Luis +1 more
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Speech genres, genres of scientific life: Conference in memory of professor K. F. Sedov [PDF]
The article summarizes the results of the International scientific-practical conference “Special Education and Sociocultural Integration – 2024: Current Issues in Remedial Education, Special Psychology and Psycholinguistics”, dedicated ...
Bochkareva, Tatyana Anatolyevna +2 more
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Report in Documentary Communication in Southern Region of Russia during First Half of 18th Century
This article examines the report as a new type of document in the business writing system of the first half of the 18th century. The aim is to identify common and distinctive features of reports from various institutions in the southern region of Russia.
O. A. Gorban
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Pleasure and meaningful discourse: an overview of research issues [PDF]
The concept of pleasure has emerged as a multi-faceted social and cultural phenomenon in studies of media audiences since the 1980s. In these studies different forms of pleasure have been identified as explaining audience activity and commitment.
Abercrombie, Nicholas +55 more
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‘You don’t need influence … all you need is your first opportunity!’: The Early Broadcast Talent Show and the BBC [PDF]
Popular histories of the reality talent show often position programmes like Opportunity Knocks as key generic precursors to the popular formats of today.
Holmes, Su
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Modernist Variations of the Ballad as a Genre [PDF]
The ballad as a genre represents a relatively frequent lyric form in the poetry of the authors of Slovak literature. On the one hand it signals continuity of the Slovak Romantic tradition (J. Kráľ, J. Botto, S. Chalupka) and through the social ballad (in
Dana Hučková
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The Meaning of Genre Studies in the Genre Situation of the 21st Century
Genre studies are an essential part of literary studies since they provide scholars and readers with a framework for analyzing and appreciating literary works. Genre studies are crucial (since the times of Paul Van Tieghem, the founder of genre studies)
Libor Pavera
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Genre as Fictional Action [PDF]
The arcticle is an interdisciplinary study between literary and rhetorical genre research. Its starting point is the well-deserved leading position held by Rhetorical Genre Studies (RGS).
Sune Auken
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