Despite the heterogeneity of ideas regarding the definitions of genre, there are also common instances shared among scholars interested in particular aspects of the notion. Swales (1990) and Bhatia (1993) are primarily interested in the sociological and psychological aspects of genre's functioning and construction, respectively.. Swales analyzes the genre of 'article introduction', into four ge...

In this paper, we investigate connections between structures present in every generic extension of the universe V and computability theory. We introduce the notion of generic Muchnik reducibility that can be used to to compare the complexity of uncountable structures; we establish basic properties of this reducibility, and study it in the context of generic presentability, the existence of a co...

Let T be a complete first order theory in a language L satisfying uniform finiteness and let TP be the model companion of T in an expanded language LP with a new unary predicate P . We show that: TP satisfies uniform finiteness; if T is an expansion of the theory of dense linear order then every cut definable in a model M of TP is definable in M L; and, if T is an expansion of the theory dense ...

In digital topology, Euclidean n-space Rn is usually modeled either by the set of points of a discrete grid, or by the set of n-cells in a convex cell complex whose union is Rn. For commonly used grids and complexes in the cases n = 2 and 3, certain pairs of adjacency relations (κ, λ) on the grid points or n-cells (such as (4,8) and (8,4) on Z2) are known to be “good pairs”. For these pairs of ...

We show that the theory of a generic structure constructed from an amalgamation class given by a predimension (as defined by Hrushovski) can be undecidable and have the strict order property. This answers a question of Pourmahdian. By contrast, if the generic is א0-categorical, then we show that it satisfies Shelah’s property NSOP4, but need not satisfy NSOP3.

Motivated by the need to explore the introductory sections of textbooks, the present study attempted to scrutinize three realizations of academic introductions, namely, Preface, Introduction, and Foreword in terms of their functions and potential generic structures in light of Swales’s (1990) views of genre. Moreover, the study aimed to investigate genre-mixing as an interdiscursivity element a...