TYPOLOGIES IN ESP: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICEL

Authors

  • Mª Rosa Costa

Keywords:

Text typologies, Language for specific purposes, Foreign language

Abstract

Text Typologies resulted from a need to map text studies. It is a reassuring feeling to be able to list and classify what you know. l l i s idea was discovered a long time ago. Indeed we can trace text typologies as far back as Aristotle. Like Aristotle's, Bain's typology dating from the 19th century has been a beacon to many a rhetorician, composition teacher, and discourse analyst. In the span of a century, several other typologies have been proposed to systematize text studies. Two main schools have been active in this area: Research done on text sorte in German (Wovgang Dressler; Rosemarie Glaser) and work done in English on text-types. In this paper I shall expound on the importance of text-typologies in ESP. As a theoretical springboard in the area of discourse analysis, devising typologies has been instrumental in clarifying content and more pragmatic pedagogical issues in the area of curriculum design.

Author Biography

Mª Rosa Costa

Instituto Politécnico do Porto Rua dos Anjos 252 4300 Porto PORTUGAL

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