Re: [Corpora-List] The genre of the Web

From: Mark P. Line (mark@polymathix.com)
Date: Sun Sep 18 2005 - 19:52:39 MET DST

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    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

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