AbstractEnglish sentences which are formed by rules are classified into 7 types. However,
the text at the superordinate level of intersentential organization is not. This thesis
aims to study standards to classify texts. In order to achieve this sever...
AbstractEnglish sentences which are formed by rules are classified into 7 types. However,
the text at the superordinate level of intersentential organization is not. This thesis
aims to study standards to classify texts. In order to achieve this several linguists'
views about text types are examined. Features to classify text, are derived from the
process of language transmission, which is composed of speaker, hearer, the text
itself, and the situational context.The features which are derived from speaker, hearer, the text itself, and the
situational context are [element of center], [existance of speaker], [speaker's attitude],
[speaker's speech act], [speaker's expressional way], [number of speakers],
[speaker's position], [existance of meaning], [size of text], [existance of rhyme],
[morpho-vocabulary], [syntactic tense], [syntactic voice], [text structure],
[event-state], [text content], [existance of topic], [pre-fixation of topic], [existance of
hearer], [number of hearers], [hearer's attitude], [contextual time], [place],
[transmissional channel], [transmissional way], [contact], [relation of position],
[connection of time], and [public].These features will classify and define many actual texts: dialogues, conversations,
narrations, demonstrations, political speechs, advertisements, classified advertise-
ments, newspaper obituaries, religious services, contract documents, discussions,
claim papers, judgement papers, documents, meetings, conferences, speeches, letters,
post cards, business letters, memos, due forms, telexes, admission tickets, poems,
novels, books, lectures, sermons, written accusations, certificates, orders for paper,
criminal punishments, papers of witnesses, laws, public lectures, reports, request
papers, mass communications, comments, public speeches, academic articles,
instruction leaflets, public notices, product labels, fairy tales, bravery tales, myths,
legends, court statements, interviews, weather reports, culinary arts, etc.