Individual projects. Haven't we missed the birth of a new genre?

Annotation

Traditionally, the essential features of individual projects are defined in an apophatic way. The author of this article conceptualizes the denial of any connection with known genres and forms as a generic property. It is shown how the features of individual projects are formed at the intersection of two planes—genre and programmatic. The possibility of treating individual projects as genres is proved by some provisions of the theory of reference, prototypical semantics, and cognitive linguistics. The author comes to the following conclusions: in individual projects, the following stable features should be considered absence of thematicism, absence of orientation to classical genres and typical musical form, referential reference not to the world, but to cognitive models. These stable features are enough to refer individual projects to a new class of genres.

Key words

Individual projects, programming, genres, cognitive models, prototypical semantics, theory of reference