Instructive Text Types

Contents

Introduction………………………………………………………………..…….
Chapter 1.Text and text type: definitions and classifications……………………. Text types……………………………………………………………... 1.2 Beaugrande and Dressler’s typology………………………………..… 1.3 Longacre’s classification…………………………………………..….. 1.4 Werlich’s textual typology……………………………………….….... 1.5 Biber’s text type………………………………………………………. Chapter 2.Text Forms………………………………………………………….... 2.1 The descriptive text form…………………………………………….... 2.2 The narrative text form………………………………………………… 2.3 The expository text form………………………………………...…….. 2.4 The argumentative text form…………………………………………… 2.5 The instructive text form …………………………………………….…
Chapter 3.The directive-instructive text-type………………………………...….. 3.1 General characteristics………………………………………………… 3.2 Directive and Instructive texts………………………………………… 3.2.1 Legal texts………………………………….……………………… 3.2.2 Statutory instructions……………………………………………… 3.2.3 Practical instructions………………………………………………. 3.2.4Persusive texts: …………………………………………………………..
Commercial advertisements……………………………........................................
Political texts…………………………………………….......................................
Religious and ethical appeal……………………………........................................
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………
Bibliography …………………………………………………................................

Introduction

In this work I will try to approach different types of text, how texts affect our lives and how we understand them. Special attention will be given to directive and instructive texts, without realizing these texts are parts of our own lives, we encounter them daily, for example in: instructions, recipes, notices, political texts, religious texts, commercial texts, etc. I think that texts are important for us,

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