Abstract
Different lines and research traditions from contemporary Linguistics share an interest for text genres. The aims of this article are, firstly, briefly presenting some fundamental antecedents on the subject for Linguistics and reviewing the main research perspectives and traditions. Secondly, it intends to introduce conceptual developments elaborated within the German Text Linguistics (TL) framework, which in my opinion offer a global and explanatory vision of text genres. Thirdly, the article illustrates the corresponding theoretical aspects, based on a corpus of verbal interviews from an Argentine public hospital, during the treatment of cardiac emergencies. The analysis performed applies a qualitative methodology, which combines the conversational analysis methods (GÜLICH; SCHÖNDIENST; SURMANN, 2003; GÜLICH, 2007) in the case of oral data, and the methods of genre linguistics for the typologizing of texts (HEINEMANN, 2000; ADAMZIK, 2004; CIAPUSCIO, 2005). The theoretical-descriptive paper describes and addresses two complementary angles of analysis for text genre, developed within the TL framework: both as speakers’ communicative activities and theoretical-analytical instruments for the typologizing of texts.
Highlights
This work is characterized by a theoretical-expository imprint on the issue of text genres, and an illustration from a specific perspective: Text Linguistics
The aim of the article is to present a brief overview of the different theoretical approaches to text genres and provide a thorough description of a perspective originated in the German Text Linguistics, while illustrating the main theoretical notions and concepts through a small corpus from an Argentine public hospital, collected during the process of treating cardiac emergencies
This article has presented a brief overview of textual genres, taking into consideration some fundamental antecedents, research perspectives and traditions
Summary
This work is characterized by a theoretical-expository imprint on the issue of text genres, and an illustration from a specific perspective: Text Linguistics. The aim of the article is to present a brief overview of the different theoretical approaches to text genres and provide a thorough description of a perspective originated in the German Text Linguistics, while illustrating the main theoretical notions and concepts through a small corpus from an Argentine public hospital, collected during the process of treating cardiac emergencies. The intention is showing, albeit in a minimalist way, contemporary angles of analysis and how the knowledge generated from this perspective can be used for theoretical-descriptive and applied purposes
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