Textual Genres, what they are, examples and how to define them
Textual genres, when we are at school we learn different things and sometimes we don't have enough time to fully learn about the subject and textual genres is one of those things, but don't worry, we will teach you in the easiest way possible for you to learn and have no doubts about what Textual Genres are.
What are Textual Genres?
Textual Genres are different forms of language used in texts, formal or informal forms or even both forms at the same time, regardless of the type of text, hence the name Textual Genres.
What are the existing Textual Genres?
They are the novel, the opinion article, the short story and the recipe, which are written genres, or even oral texts such as the class, the debate, the lecture, which are generic forms of classifying texts, whether literary or not, which, as they arise mainly from conventions, may vary, given the different criteria used.
As we said, there are several ways you can write, whether in a more formal way or a more informal way and within each of these ways there is the Textual Genre, which is where it says the type of text you are writing, whether it is an article, a story and so on.
To make your life even easier, we will include some more examples of Text Genres so you can see the great diversity of ways you can write.
More Textual Genres
- Lecture
- Expert interview
- Scientific report
- Regulation
- Prescriptive texts
- Wonderful tale
- Fairy tale
- Fable
- Legend
- Science fiction narrative
- Editorial
- Rehearsal
- Critical reviews
- Seminar
- Conference
- Romance
- Tale
- Joke
- Trip report
- Daily
- Autobiography
- Curriculum vitae
- Biography
- Historical account
- Opinion article
- Reader letter
- Request letter
How to define the Genre of a text?
You can define the genre of a text by its characteristics, these characteristics are well defined within any text and you can identify it very easily, these characteristics are: the subject, who is speaking, who is speaking to, its purpose, or whether the text is more narrative, instructional, argumentative, among many other characteristics that the text can have.
With this way of first analyzing the characteristics of the text to be able to identify the Textual Genre of the text you are reading, this definition becomes much easier.
Now that you know what Textual Genre is, what genres you can find in the texts you read and also how to define the Textual Genre of the text, you are now ready for any Portuguese test you are going to take.
