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❌ – Where do recipes, laws, or instructions fit? Adam later acknowledged an injonctive (prescriptive) type but never fully integrated it.
However, I must begin with an important clarification: you may have. My training data includes extensive knowledge of Jean-Michel Adam’s published work (particularly his contributions to text linguistics and discourse analysis), but I cannot review your copy of the PDF. Jean Michel Adam Les Textes Types Et Prototypes.pdf
The keyword "prototypes" in the title is deliberate. Adam borrowed from cognitive psychology (Eleanor Rosch). A prototype is a mental representation of an ideal example. In real life, texts are approximations of these ideal types. ❌ – Where do recipes, laws, or instructions fit
Understanding Text Types and Prototypes: A Key Resource by Jean-Michel Adam My training data includes extensive knowledge of Jean-Michel
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.