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Article: Genres, Text Types, or Discourse Modes? Narrative Modalities and Generic Categorization.
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In Coming to Terms (1990), Seymour Chatman initiated an enquiry into the delimitation of the narrative text type as against the text types of argument and description. This revolutionary step was a major landmark for literary scholars; linguists, by contrast, had been battling with the same problems for two decades, trying to distinguish between, on the one hand, the larger text types that are constitutive of our understanding of narrative versus expository or exhortative discourse (in oral or written formats), and, on the other hand, the surface textual sequences of report, dialogue, argument, descriptipn, and so on. In narrative studies, too, there arose some recognition ...
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