Open AccessCommunicative Purpose as Genre Determinant
Author(s) -
Inger Askehave
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
hermes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.759
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1903-1785
pISSN - 0904-1699
DOI - 10.7146/hjlcb.v12i23.25545
Subject(s) - linguistics , computer science , psychology , natural language processing , philosophy
Through the years researchers and LSP teachers alike have used various parameters for classifying texts. This article sets out to discuss the notion of ‘communicative purpose’ as a means for classifying text. It points to some of the difficulties associated with the functional approaches to genre classification in general and the notion of “commu-nicative purpose” in particular.