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Understanding Prescriptive Language

Prescriptive language is a type of discourse that aims to guide or regulate the behavior of the recipient in the development of an activity or task.

Types of Prescriptive Texts

• Regulatory Texts: These collect orders or rules by which the issuer intends to govern behavior. Examples include laws, regulations, and codes of conduct.
• Instructional Texts: These provide tips or instructions for the receiver to perform a task. Examples include recipes, manuals, and how-to guides.

Structure of Prescriptive Language

The structure of prescriptive language typically includes:

• Goal

  This serves as the title and sometimes includes an initial explanation in the first paragraph, outlining the objective of the prescriptive text.

• Program

  This

School Building Design Criteria

When designing school buildings, several key criteria must be met to ensure an optimal learning environment:

Key Design and Pedagogical Criteria

• Teaching-learning criteria: The group of teachers use their creativity and training to meet, in the best possible way, the potential of the school building at an educational level. The building should act as a facilitator of the development framework (PEC) and contain appropriate spatial configurations for modern teaching models.
• Geographical criteria: These focus on finding the best location, optimizing the use of natural light, natural air conditioning, waterproofing, etc. Thus, we will provide excellent working conditions for students and teachers, while less energy will

Linguistic Foundations and Textual Analysis

Synonyms: Semantic, stylistic speech theory of communication, communication effects, textual coherence, language levels, and educational applications.

Sentence Structure and Syntax

Simple Sentences: Syntax, semantics, and stylistics.

Textual History and Theory

Text History Summary: Text linguistics (textual coherence), communication theory (pragmatics), stylistics (rhetoric), synthesis, and semantics.

Practical Applications

• Personal Letter: Text grammar, textual cohesion and coherence, language levels, and communication theory.
• Error Correction: Application of grammar rules.
• Text Planning: Principles of text linguistics.
• Poetry Recitation: Intonation, textual intention, rhythm (prosodic), and artistic/creative

Understanding Advertising

Advertising is a genre centered on a product with a commercial purpose, designed to persuade consumers to purchase that product. The primary argument used to influence the receiver is presented through various media channels.

Elements of Communication

Advertising is a communicative process where a transmitter directs a message to a receiver group. This process is unilateral, meaning there is no exchange of opinions. The channel varies depending on the transmission medium, while the codes utilized are diverse, including linguistic, non-linguistic, and iconographic elements.

Advertising copy is characterized by the predominance of three language functions:

• Appellate: Reflects the intent to persuade.
• Poetic: Utilizes literary

Instructional Texts: Guiding Future Actions

Instructional texts aim to teach the receiver how to regulate their conduct in the future, effectively directing, teaching, arranging, or advising them on performing actions.

Structure of Instructional Texts

• Objective: The purpose of the text, often brief and summarized in the title.
• Instructions: Steps presented in a logical (cause-effect) or chronological order, detailing orders, advice, or actions. Ideas are typically organized into paragraphs, each addressing a single topic or subtopic. Instructions may also be grouped into sections or subsections.

Linguistic Characteristics of Instructional Texts

• Verbal Forms: Frequent use of conative verbal forms or appeals (e.g., must do, has to do).
• Person: Use of

Mastering Textual Properties for Effective Communication

Communicative Adaptation: Linguistic Diversity and Registers

Communicative adaptation requires the knowledge and mastery of linguistic diversity. Language is neither uniform nor homogeneous. Speakers and writers must choose the appropriate dialect form and register for their context.

Criteria for Text Suitability

To check whether a text is suitable, the following criteria must be met:

• Achieves its intended goal.
• Appropriate personal treatment (tone).
• Level of formality maintained consistently throughout the text.
• Maintenance of the required degree of specificity.

Consistency (Coherence): Processing and Structuring Information

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Expository Text Structure

Deductive Structure

General to Private: Starts with a general statement and moves to specific details.

Text Qualities

Sound (Tone)

The text should follow the intended audience (a friend, an officer, etc.) and adjust the language to the situation (family, business, official).

Consistency

Text information must be clear, logical, well-organized, and contain no contradictions.

Cohesion

Different ideas and words should be properly linked so the whole text is perceived as a unit.

Sentence and Word Components

Sentence (Oración)

A unit that connects two phrases through a relationship of predication. Must have subject-verb agreement.

Statement (Proposición)

Stands between pauses, has full meaning, and is independent.

Lexeme or Root

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Linguistic Functions: Jakobson's Framework

The linguistic function, as defined by Roman Jakobson, refers to the ability of texts to draw attention to the message itself. While all communication contains several functions simultaneously, one usually prevails depending on the sender's emphasis.

Core Functions of Language

• Emotive: Reflects the mood of the sender (e.g., "Well!").
• Heuristics: The search for information, expressed through questions or desires.
• Appeal (Conative): Aims to produce a response from the receptor (e.g., regulations, laws, manuals).
• Metalinguistic: Focuses on the code itself, increasing awareness of vocabulary and meanings.
• Phonological: Creates consciousness of sounds, phonemes, and graphic sequences for replication.
• Morphosyntactic:

Linguistic Registers and Stylistic Varieties

Stylistic varieties, or registers, refer to the way a speaker uses a language depending on the communicative situation. This is influenced by the relationship between the sender and receiver, the channel, the topic, the purpose, the time, and the place. There are two main types of registers:

• Formal Register: Used when the relationship between participants is distant. It is characterized by respect for established grammatical rules and a sophisticated use of language.
• Informal Register: Used in familiar and friendly settings. It typically occurs in spontaneous, everyday situations and is a practical language, aiming for concrete and immediate communication.

Literary Education: Theatrical Genres

Drama

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Comprehension

Comprehension: the ability to understand a particular topic or issue.

Text

Text: Communication is a linguistic unit with a given convention and a linguistically well-structured semantic interpretation, which depends on the socio-cultural context.

Features

• Communicative and social function.
• Manifestation of the author's intention to communicate.
• Performed in a sequence of sentences.
• It should be consistent.
• It must have unity.

Types of Texts

Expository

Expository: scientific, technical, academic, journalistic, legal, institutional, commercial.

Literary

Literary: short stories, novels, poetry, theater.

Compression Techniques

• General reading of the text.
• Clarify unfamiliar vocabulary.
• Accuracy of details.
• Questioning.
• Development of a summary.
• Sample: