Abstract
Piciorys (Eng. Story, Personal Story) is an autobiographical text created by a person undergoing treatment for alcoholism. Its roots can be traced back to the activity of the Alcoholics Anonymous movement. In the article, attempts at making a preliminary description of the genre, within the boundaries of text and discourse linguistics, were made. After discussing pragmatic aspects of the communicative situation (AA meeting), specific functions of piciorys were pointed out (in comparison to other therapeutic texts) and the outline of text structure was laid out. Ways in which this particular text type, along with other similar stories based on different addictions, could be situated in the family of genres were suggested (suggested collective name: evolution testimony). The other similar genres include: religious testimony, coming out and self-criticism (pertaining to speeches at communist party conventions).
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