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This
essay presents a theoretical model of genre
relations in multimedia. Any text may be described
according to the four axes Mode of Distribution
(the balance of amount of material and time between
authoring and reading); Mode of Restrictions (range
and detail in space and time); Mode of Acquisition
(the reading process required of the reader); and
Mode of Signification (the particular combination
of sign systems). Rhetorical convergence is when a
text is similar to one genre on one axis and
another genre on another axis. However, the model
implies that rhetorical divergence may be a better
description.
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