Between the sentence and the whole text, Adam posits – relatively autonomous, typologically marked chunks. A long argumentative text may contain narrative examples; a novel includes descriptive sequences. This avoids the “all or nothing” trap of earlier typologies.
| Theorist | Basis | Adam’s difference | |----------|-------|-------------------| | | 5 text types (description, narration, exposition, argumentation, instruction) | Adam adds dialogal and sequence hierarchy | | Longacre (1976) | 4 types (narrative, procedural, behavioral, expository) | Adam more fine-grained on descriptive/explanatory | | Bhatia (1993) | Genre analysis (professional settings) | Adam is more linguistic, less sociorhetorical | | Bronckart (1997) | Action theory (language as work) | Adam more structuralist, Bronckart more sociodiscursive | Jean Michel Adam Les Textes Types Et Prototypes.pdf
: The sequence is positioned between the individual sentence (proposition) and the full text. It is a self-contained organizational unit with a rigorous internal structure. Between the sentence and the whole text, Adam