Recipes, instructions for use and patient information leaflets are part and parcel of our day-to-day experience. They are ‘genres we live by’, which bring with them a special focus of attention on imperatives and imperative strategies as directive speech acts. This book integrates in-sights from text linguistics, research into text types and genre studies so as to provide a fresh view on English and Italian recipes, instruc-tions for use and patient information leaflets as members of the proto-typical category of written practical instructions and genres on the move. Based on notions such as participant roles, relationships, needs and goals in (a)symmetric communication, future orientation and de-sire-, goal- and rule-oriented sentential modality, authority of practical validity, competence/accuracy, rational, factual knowledge, and pro-cedural knowledge, the book shows how the fruitful interaction of studies on text, text types, discourse modes and genre, and, on the other hand, imperatives, imperative strategies and speech acts, can contribute to a better characterization of text types and genre conventions (also, generic structure potential) while explaining the pragmatic versatility of imperatives and imperative strategies.

Understanding Written Practical Instructions. Studies in English and Italian Multitype Texts / Cacchiani, Silvia. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 9-241.

Understanding Written Practical Instructions. Studies in English and Italian Multitype Texts

CACCHIANI, Silvia
2013

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Recipes, instructions for use and patient information leaflets are part and parcel of our day-to-day experience. They are ‘genres we live by’, which bring with them a special focus of attention on imperatives and imperative strategies as directive speech acts. This book integrates in-sights from text linguistics, research into text types and genre studies so as to provide a fresh view on English and Italian recipes, instruc-tions for use and patient information leaflets as members of the proto-typical category of written practical instructions and genres on the move. Based on notions such as participant roles, relationships, needs and goals in (a)symmetric communication, future orientation and de-sire-, goal- and rule-oriented sentential modality, authority of practical validity, competence/accuracy, rational, factual knowledge, and pro-cedural knowledge, the book shows how the fruitful interaction of studies on text, text types, discourse modes and genre, and, on the other hand, imperatives, imperative strategies and speech acts, can contribute to a better characterization of text types and genre conventions (also, generic structure potential) while explaining the pragmatic versatility of imperatives and imperative strategies.
2013
9788854854642
Aracne Editrice
ITALIA
Understanding Written Practical Instructions. Studies in English and Italian Multitype Texts / Cacchiani, Silvia. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 9-241.
Cacchiani, Silvia
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