Abstract

Website is a kind of new format of genres, which contains a mixture of various genres of text. In this paper, two texts of different genres are extrac ted from the website of Australian G overnment Department of Immigration and Boarder Security ( DIBP ) and are analyzed by CDA. Through the representation analysis, it is brought to light that the two texts have distinct features as to what is ‘selected’ in their representations. Despite the fact that the two texts are of different genres it turns out that they are produced for the same purposes; both aim at ‘activity exchange’ in the disguise of ‘knowledge exchange’.