Poradnik : model gatunkowy i jego tekstowe aktualizacje

Abstract

The author of the book deals with the issue of the genre nature of a guide book. Making use of the findings reached by linguistic genology, she looked at above all modern (native and translated) guide books, as well as, indirectly, pieces of advice connected with a day‑to‑day language practice, press and calendar advice, etc. The main research method consisted in building a genre model and comparing it with particular texts. As a result, the (proto)typical elements determining the genre identification of a given update were differentiated from variable and contextually‑conditioned ones. The choice of such a cognitively attractive topic of the thesis was influenced by, first of all, a belief in a considerable role of counseling, and, secondly, an uncertain discursive status of a guide book – an extremely expansive, polymorphic and transgressive form of expression that has not been discussed in a linguistic monographic book so far. The results of the analyses in question may, hence, be of interest to all those interested in a genre interpretation of functional texts, as well as the issues related to counseling and giving advice.