Traditional contrastive rhetoric research is often restricted to the textual
level of analysis. By providing both a textual and contextual view
of genre across languages and cultures, this book presents a framework
for contrastive rhetoric research which moves beyond the text
into the context of production and interpretation of the text. The book
examines the textual patterning of Australian and Chinese commentaries
and interpersonal and intertextual features of the texts, as well
as considers possible contextual factors which might contribute to the
formation of the newspaper commentaries in...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Web-Age Information Management, WAIM 2012, held in Harbin, China in August 2012. The 32 revised full papers presented together with 10 short papers and three keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 178 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on wireless sensor networks; data warehousing and data mining; query processing; spatial databases; similarity search and queries; XML and Web data; graph and uncertain data; distributed computing; data security and management;...