The Tag Glossary: G

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A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P Q R S T V W

Gender

Machine name

GENDER

Attributes

Current alternative term

Gender Identity

Regularization

Self-defined

This element is designed to capture the gender of the subject to whom it is applied in a single word or phrase. The GENDERISSUE tag is available for more substantive discussions of gender and gender identity. Gender is a historically constructed and linguistically complex category that can shift over the course of a person's lifetime, in which case multiple elements can be used. The GENDER tag has multiple attributes: GENDERIDENTITY, CURRENT, ALTERNATIVE, SELFIDENTIFIED [etc], with definitions for the latter attributes the same as for other sub-tags within CULTURALFORMATION.

Gender Identity

Machine name

GENDERIDENTITY

Value

Woman

Non-conforming

Trans

Man

Unknown

The GENDERIDENTITY attribute values on the GENDER tag are meant to capture the most common forms of gender identity; other terms may be provided in the prose content of the element. The values are the following:

Woman
Trans
Man
Nonconforming
Unknown

Gender of Author

Machine name

GENDEROFAUTHOR

Value

Woman

Non-conforming

Trans

Man

Unknown

GENDEROFAUTHOR is an optional attribute modifying the element INTERTEXTUALITY, conceptually part of WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURES.

Gendered response

Machine name

GENDEREDRESPONSE

Value

Ad feminam

Yes

This attribute is attached to BIOGRAPHY or WRITING > DIRECT PARENT > RESPONSES. It indicates whether or not a response to a work was predicated on or swayed by the writer's gender. Three values are available for this attribute: adFeminam, genderedYes, and genderedNo. The last two are clear: they specify whether or not the response was directed towards a writer's gender (either explicitly, or through terms like delicately sensitive or hysterical). AdFeminam is used to indicate responses focused on some pre-existing idea of the personality or personal reputation of the writer (for good or ill) - that is, an opinion of the woman not the author - rather than on the work itself. In most cases it will be used when a malign stereotype of this author is in circulation.

This attribute has siblings in the attributes RESPONSETYPE and FORMALITY.

Generic range

Machine name

GENERICRANGE

The element GENERICRANGE is designed to work only within AUTHORSUMMARY statements (which are composed in the WRITING section of profiles. It cannot be used elsewhere). It takes in a sentence or sentences discussing a writer's whole oeuvre and the kind of generic choices she made over her lifetime. It has no allowable sub-elements or attributes.

Genre

Machine name

GENRENAME

Value

Scholarship

Historical

Abridgement

À clef

Acrostic

Adaptation

Adventure writing

Advertising copy

Afterpiece

Afterword

Agitprop

Allegory

Almanac

Anacreontic

Anagram

Annotation

Answer

Anthem

Anthology

Antiromance

Aphorism

Apology

Art criticism

Autobiography

Ballad

Ballade

Ballad opera

Ballet

Bergamasque

Bestiary

Biblical paraphrase

Bildungsroman

Biographical dictionary

Biography

Bisexual fiction

Black comedy

Bouts rimes

Broadside

Burletta

Cabaret

Captivity narrative

Catechism

Chapbook

Character

Charade

Children's literature

Clerihew

Closet drama

Colouring book

Comedy

Comedy of humours

Comedy of intrigue

Comedy of manners

Comedy of menace

Comic book

Coming out

Commonplace book

Companion

Computer program

Condition of England novel

Conduct literature

Cookbook

Courtship fiction

Criminology

Dedication

Detective

Devotional

Dialogue or debate

Diary

Dialogue of the dead

Dictionary

Didactic

Genre

Machine name

TGENRE

Attributes

Genre

TGENRE is an element used in the Writing section of entries and in free-standing events. It has a single attribute, GenreName, which captures the name of the genres written by an entry subject or addressed by a free-standing event, according to a project-generated list of genre names. This tag may be used more than once on the same word, since the world contains more genrenames, and mixed genres, than can be listed. This is a mandatory attribute; the element is meaningless without it.

Genre issue

Machine name

TGENREISSUE

GENREISSUE is an element belonging to WRITING > TEXTUALFEATURE. It talks generally about the genre issues raised by a specific text, or about an unusual mixture of genre forms. It has no mandatory or optional sub-elements or attributes, but it has an ancillary element in TGENRE with attribute GENRENAME, which should occur in every use of TGENREISSUE.

Geographic feature

Machine name

GEOG

Attributes

Current

Regularization

GEOG, a sub-element available within PLACE element in every kind of document, captures names of places which are nation states or larger conceptual geographical entities. It goes around name only, excludes punctuation, and has two attributes, CURRENT and REG. The following is a list of the types of places that GEOG captures:

Nation states: Italy, China, Canada
Groups of Nation States: Low Countries, Baltic Countries
Colonies: French Indo-China, British North America [Note: Current attribute wherever possible gives present-day name, with REG attribute giving name at the time referred to.]
Conceptual Geographical Groupings: Far East
Historical Geo-political units: For example, Siam and Ceylon use CURRENT attribute to record these as Thailand and Sri Lanka; Siam and Ceylon are used in Reg attribute to ensure obsolete names are searchable.

Geographic heritage

Machine name

GEOGHERITAGE

Attributes

Forebear

Regularization

Self-defined

GEOGHERITAGE is a subtag within BIOGRAPHY > CULTURALFORMATION. It captures information about powerful early geographical influences, or about the geographical origins of a person's family which often contributes to an understanding of their racial and ethnic background. It offers a way to capture women identified as South-Asian, for example, when no more precise national heritage is indicated. It should enclose the word or words that best describe(s) the relevant place. It has attributes, FOREBEAR, SELF-DEFINED, and REG (which last enables a more standardized description than the prose). See RACEANDETHNICITY for a detailed description of the complexities of this element.