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❌ – Most examples are literary or journalistic; less tested on administrative, digital, or multilingual corpora.

Before Adam, traditional text linguistics often struggled with classification. Attempts to define texts strictly by their formal features often failed. For instance, if a news report contains a quote from a witness describing an event, does it cease to be a report and become a narrative? Rigid taxonomies could not account for the fluidity of real-world writing. Jean Michel Adam Les Textes Types Et Prototypes.pdf

Adam argued against the idea of "types" as isolated categories. He proposed that the definition of a text cannot rest on a single criterion (such as "telling a story" or "arguing a point"). Instead, texts are the result of a complex layering of operations—pragmatic, semantic, and linguistic. ❌ – Most examples are literary or journalistic;