ext_123759 ([identity profile] joshenglish.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] truepenny 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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