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Tsiplakou, Stavroula and Georgios Floros. 2013. Never mind the text types, here's textual force: Towards a pragmatic reconceptualization of text type. Journal of Pragmatics 45 (1) : 119–130.
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Article in journal
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English
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Elsevier
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This paper discusses aspects of the theoretical and methodological disorder concerning the concepts of language function, text type and genre, and suggests a pragmatic reconceptualization of text type as the overall force of a text, defined as an overarching textual function arrived at by inference processes implementing contextual knowledge. This inferential approach takes into account the dynamism of this intuitively required superordinate construct.