The resources that give “texture” to a piece of discourse, without which it would not be discourse, are the following...
Direct speech purports to give the exact words that someone utters or has uttered in speech or writing...
Narration is to tell an event or some events that have taken place, are taking place or will take place in the sequence of time. Narration fixes the actions that occur in a succession of time...
Description is traditionally defined as a painting made with words, and that is true because a good description is the one that makes an impression on the receiver in such a way that he can see mentally the described reality...
In the explanatory text a relationship is established between the author and the reader in which the main function is to convey an acquired knowledge or ideas in a certain field: humanistic, scientific, technical, judicial...
We call argumentation the discourse techniques that aim to obtain the auditory´s support to the theses that are presented to his assent. The addressor wants the addressee to think or behave as he wants...
Besides narration, description, exposition, and argumentation, instruction is usually taken as the fifth basic text type in modern text grammars. This text type can manifest itself in various text forms, such as instructions...
The dialogue is a chain of linguistic interventions organised in a progressive present, with the speakers face to face in a shared situation. We can find 2 or more speakers in the alternative functions of speaker and receiver...
Enunciation is a key term in Foucault's attempt to make his method consistent as a theoretical structure. The long, central chapter on 'The Enunciative Function' serves to describe a specific...
Auxiliaries are extremely important in conversation because in short answers, agreements, disagreements with remarks etc. we use auxiliaries instead of repeating the original verb...
