ext_123759 (
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2009-03-13 04:59 am (UTC)
How about "language" and "dialects"?
That's what I came up with tonight after thinking about it.
In short: tropes are the vocabulary of genre, therefore genres are languages, and sets of tropes are dialects.
http://joshenglish.livejournal.com/147889.html
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How about "language" and "dialects"?
In short: tropes are the vocabulary of genre, therefore genres are languages, and sets of tropes are dialects.
http://joshenglish.livejournal.com/147889.html