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Teksty minimalne jako przedmiot badań genologicznych
Minimal texts as the subject of genre studies

Author(s): Waldemar Czachur
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Published by: Instytut Germanistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: minimal text; genre; genre studies; multimodal genre studies

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the work is to reflect on the essence of such texts as bus tickets, banknotes, postage stamps, receipts, street signs, and credit cards, which I define as minimum texts. On the one hand, I am interested in the question of what research potential lies in the analysis of minimum texts from a genological perspective and, on the other hand, what analysis criteria and categories from the field of genre studies could be relevant for the analysis of minimal texts. I will try to explain by means of a few examples how I define minimal texts and what I see as the value of this category in answering the questions raised above and outlining the deiderata of integrated multimodal text type linguistics.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 25-42
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish