Transformative Works and Cultures

I was interested in the subject of this article, but the heavy use of the adjective "generic" and of at least one noun back-formed from it became too much for me to finish it, about two-thirds of the way through. It can certainly be argued that the French word "genre", being derived from "genus" has as much right to the adjective as the biological usage and the common usage derived from it, but for someone not a professional in genre studies, the common usage, an inclusive usage ("with reference to all of the members of a genus or class rather than to a particular member of it (as, a generic name or term)") , is the default, and it leads to cognitive dissonance when the adjective is used as a separating term. In addition, references to "generic code" are likely to default in a reader's eye to "genetic code", which is in such common currency of late. Since the direct use of a noun as a modifier (as in "genre studies") is common in English and removes the confusion, it would be worth considering changing to this form in a journal intended to be available to a wide and varied audience.

I'll come back to struggle through the rest eventually - the ideas are worth it - but it is definitely easier to assimilate them if you don't have to keep rewriting in your head!