The article studies contexts with the expression “in the genre” in the Russian National Corpus (RNC) to clarify the lexicalized aspects of the communicativespeech phenomena in genre typification. There are two substantial groups of contexts: 1) traditional terminological “Aristotelian” meaning of “in the genre” (meaning that genres exist in artistic creation and art in general). 2) other meanings: a) desemantized “in the genre”, approaching the semantics of the preposition.