The advice genre (1400-1599). Genre and text type conventions
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2009
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The aim of this paper is to characterize the advice text as a genre in the late medieval and early
modern English periods. This genre is very popular during this time and is usually found within
medical remedy books. For this reason, it has been generally studied within the scope of medieval
recipes in historical discourse analysis. In this paper my intention is to show the independent
status of the advice text as a genre. A first step for this lies in the characterization of the linguistic
features pertaining to the sections that compound this genre and its comparison with the recipe
genre. The corpus for this study has been collected from several sources, both edited and unedited.
The description of the text type features will be illustrated with examples taken from this
corpus. As I show in the conclusion, the advice text is an independent genre with a clear communicative
purpose and addressed to an intended audience.
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 45.2 (2009), pp. 39-58
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0081-6272