Superstructural strategies
Readers employ superstructural strategies to recognize text types and its internal organization as well as the relations among text types and their combinations.
Cubo de Severino et al. (2008) explain that each text contains two elements:
content and form. The former includes the information the text conveys whereas the latter refers to the way that information is organized in its structure. The form is varied and depends on different factors which specify the text types. As it has already been mentioned, they can be categorized into argumentative, narrative, expository and instructive texts, with examples such as stories, catalogues, prospects, poems, drama, comics, and recipes among others (p. 65).
The superstructural schemes can be characterized as conventional or arbitrary; i.e. the forms are agreed by users of the language, they are not universal and they vary according to the different cultures so they need to be learnt. They are also abstract since they are mental schemes which are filled in with content and independent from the language since they can contain diverse codes. (Cubo de Severino et al., 2008, p.66)
These strategies allow the reader to recognize the rhetoric schemes of texts, and its content distribution before, during and after reading. Before reading, users observe the form and paratextual features in order to recognize the categories and assign a text type. Besides, readers can make inferences about the communicative situation and predict the possible content. During and after reading users can confirm or reject the hypotheses made and they may recognize the author´s purpose to write the text. (Cubo de Severino et al., 2008)
Readers employ superstructural strategies to recognize text types and its internal organization as well as the relations among text types and their combinations.
Cubo de Severino et al. (2008) explain that each text contains two elements:
content and form. The former includes the information the text conveys whereas the latter refers to the way that information is organized in its structure. The form is varied and depends on different factors which specify the text types. As it has already been mentioned, they can be categorized into argumentative, narrative, expository and instructive texts, with examples such as stories, catalogues, prospects, poems, drama, comics, and recipes among others (p. 65).
The superstructural schemes can be characterized as conventional or arbitrary; i.e. the forms are agreed by users of the language, they are not universal and they vary according to the different cultures so they need to be learnt. They are also abstract since they are mental schemes which are filled in with content and independent from the language since they can contain diverse codes. (Cubo de Severino et al., 2008, p.66)
These strategies allow the reader to recognize the rhetoric schemes of texts, and its content distribution before, during and after reading. Before reading, users observe the form and paratextual features in order to recognize the categories and assign a text type. Besides, readers can make inferences about the communicative situation and predict the possible content. During and after reading users can confirm or reject the hypotheses made and they may recognize the author´s purpose to write the text. (Cubo de Severino et al., 2008)
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