Genre definitions by Swales (1990) and Miller (1984) include the communicative purpose of a text as an indicative feature of its genre. Genre studies have also identified how expert members of discourse communities possess professional expertise in genre styles. This article shows that beyond discourse community expert members, ordinary audiences also have conceptions of genre and use those conceptions to evaluate texts. Through a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of listener reviews of the true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder, the analysis shows that negative reviews view the true crime-comedy categorisation as two separate genres, evaluating the podcast based on expectations of true crime and expectations of comedy. Positive reviewers accept the true crime-comedy genre as a new, mixed genre and evaluate the podcast from an in-group perspective, identifying themselves as members of the My Favorite Murder discourse community. Through this analysis, I show that audiences implement some form of genre analysis in text evaluations and that membership of the discourse community influences how they apply genre expectations to evaluations of texts.

Swales (1990) 和 Miller (1984) 的体裁定义包括文本的交际目的作为其体裁的指示性特征。体裁研究还确定了话语社区的专家成员如何拥有体裁风格的专业知识。本文表明，除了话语共同体专家成员之外，普通观众也有体裁概念，并用这些概念来评价文本。通过对真实犯罪喜剧播客“我最喜欢的谋杀”的听众评论的语料库辅助话语分析，分析表明，负面评论将真正的犯罪喜剧分类视为两种不同的类型，根据对真实犯罪的期望和对喜剧的期望来评估播客。积极的评论者接受真正的犯罪喜剧类型作为一种新的混合类型，并从群体内的角度评估播客，将自己视为“我最喜欢的谋杀”话语社区的成员。通过这种分析，我表明受众在文本评估中实施了某种形式的体裁分析，并且话语社区的成员身份会影响他们如何将体裁期望应用于文本评估。