Generic Ambiguity
Generic Ambiguity is a literary and academic concept that denotes the indeterminacy or instability in the classification of a text’s genre, distinguishing it from more clearly categorized forms by resisting fixed generic categorization.
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Generic Indeterminacy
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Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power
Charles L. Briggs, Richard Bauman · Journal of Linguistic Anthropology · 1992 · 1.1K citations
On the generic indefinite article
Noël Burton-Roberts · Language · 1976 · 48 citations
Article choice in plural generics
Donka F. Farkas, Henriëtte de Swart · Lingua · 2007 · 47 citations · Full text
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Princeton University
Princeton, United States
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Vassar College
Town of Poughkeepsie, United States
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Villanova University
Radnor, United States
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Indiana University
Bloomington, United States
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Stevenson University
Owings Mills, United States
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Utrecht University
Utrecht, The Netherlands
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TPAMI · 1 publications · 33 citations
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