Jean-Michel Adam's Les Textes: Types et Prototypes (1992) introduced a foundational framework for discourse analysis, shifting focus from rigid text categorization to dynamic, heterogeneous "textual sequences". The work defines five foundational prototypes—narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explicative, and dialogal—which combine to form complex, real-world texts. For more details on the five prototypes, visit Cairn.info .
Adam's framework has profound implications for how we define a . Rather than a linear chain of sentences, a text is re-conceptualized as a complex hierarchical configuration , a regulated combination of several sequences (from the same or different types) that are in constant interaction. This model accounts for the inherent heterogeneity of most real-world texts. A single text, such as a news article, can dominantly use a narrative sequence to recount an event while incorporating descriptive sequences to paint a scene and dialogal sequences to quote an interview. Jean Michel Adam Les Textes Types Et Prototypes.pdf
Le concept de est l'élément central de la typologie d'Adam. Une séquence n'est pas simplement une portion du texte ; c'est un segment structuré , une unité d'organisation qui possède une certaine autonomie. Adam repère ainsi cinq grands types de séquences, qu'il appelle des prototypes : narratif, descriptif, argumentatif, explicatif et dialogal. Jean-Michel Adam's Les Textes: Types et Prototypes (1992)
The heart of Les Textes: Types et Prototypes is the concept of the . Adam defines a sequence as a relatively autonomous network of propositions that form a recognizable pattern. Adam's framework has profound implications for how we