There's a revolution going on in the art and science of categorization, and its name is folksonomy, a term term invented by information architect Thomas Vander Wal. Folksonomy is like taxonomy, the traditional way to impose structure on the blooming confu
We present a taxonomy automatically generated from
the system of categories in Wikipedia. Categories in the resource
are identified as either classes or instances and included in a large
subsumption, i.e. isa, hierarchy. The taxonomy is made available in
RDFS format to the research community, e.g. for direct use within AI
applications or to bootstrap the process of manual ontology creation.
On film studies courses, students are asked to treat as objects of study the same films which they may more commonly experience as entertainment. To explore the role of academic writing in this, an action research project was carried out on a university film studies course using a systemic functional linguistics approach. This paper presents a key assessment essay genre, referred to as a taxonomic film analysis. This genre was analysed drawing on the work of Halliday and Mathiessen, 2004 and Martin, 1992 and Lemke, 1985 and Lemke, 1990), focussing on three aspects: the genre acts performed in the process of analysing film; the conceptual frameworks of film studies knowledge, or ‘thematic formations’ (Lemke, 1993) drawn on and re-constituted in the assignment; the particular ways that language is used to perform these acts and build these thematic formations. For EAP to be relevant to film students, it is proposed that EAP specialists need to engage with these three aspects of film study. This application of SFL in film studies EAP is intended as an illustration of how SFL tools can be used for relevant EAP provision across the HE curriculum.
Highlights
► The key genre identified was taxonomic film analysis. ► Deploying film studies language and genre converts film into an object of study. ► EAP lecturers need to engage with both the language and the meaning making of film student
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took part and also contributed to the challenge task and rule sets. See
http://cec2008.cs.georgetown.edu/wsc08/\\
The work is online available at
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/index.html\#BBKBWJ2008WSC08CTWSC.\\
The paper can be downloaded at
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/BBKBWJ2008WSC08CTWSC.pdf.\\
The flyer can be downloaded at
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/BBKBWJ2008WSC08CTWSC\_flyer.pdf.\\
The rules document can be downloaded at
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/BBKBWJ2008WSC08CTWSC\_rules.pdf.\\
The software, sources, and resources can be downloaded at
http://www.it-weise.de/documents/files/BBKBWJ2008WSC08CTWSC\_sources.zip.\\
Contact Thomas Weise at tweise@gmx.de or http://www.it-weise.de/..
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