Type of text:

1) according to text genres of Functional Styles:

The Belles-Lettres Style

Novel, drama, story Language of poetry Emotive prose

Publicistic Style

Oratory and speeches Essay Radio and TV Journalistic / magazine articles

Oral + written form

Aim: to convince + to cause to accept

Newspaper Style

News and press reports articles advertisements announcements

Scientific Prose Style

Paper (Academic, Call for Papers) review monographs

The Style of Official Documents

Business documents Diplomatic documents Protocols Legal documents

 text types by Werlich

Text type Function

• It uses facts, reasons and evidence.
Argumentative • It uses a vivid language.
• It calls to action (facts and examples
the author gives to support their
claim, trying to convince the reader).

• There’s a beginning, a middle, and an

Narrative end.
• The purpose is to entertain the reader
with a fictional story.
• It describes the actions that the
characters perform.
• A text which says what a person or
Descriptive thing / situation is like.
• It describes and reveal a particular
person, thing or place.
• It uses descriptive lanaguage.
• The purpose is to inform, explain,
Expository describe, define the subject /
situation.
• Presents information in a logical
order
• Gives facts, examples and
information about a topic.
• Usually, the first words placed in the
Instructive beginning of sentences are verbs.
• Uses the words “must” and “must
not”.
• Simple clear language.
• Imperative verbs (do, make, put, etc.)
Sender – (individual, collective)
Receiver-–(individual, collective; social roles, etc.)

Channel / code- (acoustic, visual; speech form: written, oral; etc.)

 Message (type of information according to I.R. Galperin)

Factual information Conceptual information Undercurrent

comes from ideas,

concerned with facts or theories, concepts, a hidden opinion, feeling,
• You can hypotheses. You can form tendency often contrary to
contains facts, rather than
giving theories or conceptual information the onee publicly shown.
through comparison and Paradox information
personal
interpretations reflection, creating
philosophies that cannot
be proven or seen.