Crucially, a single text (e.g., a news article) can mix types: narrative (event report) + descriptive (character traits) + argumentative (implied judgment).
Clara arrived to find him surrounded by old leather-bound books. She explained her problem: Adam argued that texts aren’t random. They are built from “prototypes” – narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory, and dialogual sequences. But without the PDF, she couldn’t understand how they fit together. Jean Michel Adam Les Textes Types Et Prototypes.pdf
These features can serve as a starting point for further exploration, analysis, or summarization of the document's content. Crucially, a single text (e
| Theorist | Basis | Adam’s difference | |----------|-------|-------------------| | | 5 text types (description, narration, exposition, argumentation, instruction) | Adam adds dialogal and sequence hierarchy | | Longacre (1976) | 4 types (narrative, procedural, behavioral, expository) | Adam more fine-grained on descriptive/explanatory | | Bhatia (1993) | Genre analysis (professional settings) | Adam is more linguistic, less sociorhetorical | | Bronckart (1997) | Action theory (language as work) | Adam more structuralist, Bronckart more sociodiscursive | | Theorist | Basis | Adam’s difference |
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