Stephen Neale- is a British philosopher and specialist in the philosophy of language who has written extensively about meaning, information, interpretation, and communication.

Repertoire of elements- a group of generic elements in that genre. These elements include, characters, audience, setting, themes, style, narrative and iconography.

Corpus- is a collection of written or spoken language data in a computer format. It brings together large quantities of language evidence from a variety of real situation.

Hybridisation- is the strategic use of bringing to things together (eg. rom-com).

Historic specificity- are associated with certain time periods.

Repetition and sameness- the act of repeating something and sameness is where things are compared and shown how they are similar.

Variation and change- is when there is a change or slight difference but the things are still similar.

Narrative image- is where an image is used to tell a story and create a picture of what is happening.

Expectations and hypotheses- is when you believe something is going to happen due to prior knowledge, or beliefs. Hypotheses is where an idea man be an answer to a problem.

Suspend disbelief- allows someone to believe something that is not true, it can be done to enjoy something eg. a movie.

Generic regime of verisimilitude- means the quality of resembling reality.

Conventions and rules- are set agreed, or generally accepted norms, social-norms or criteria.

Sub-genre- a genre that is part of a larger genre.

Hybridity- is something that is mixed. It is a cross between two separate races, plants or cultures.

Genres of order and integration (Thomas Schatz)- he believes that there are only two genres: genres of order (western, gangster, sci-fi, horror, etc) and genres of integration (musicals, comedies, melodramas, etc.