What makes a text a text? Criteria for text functionality

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Genres, grade: 1,3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: The aim of this study is to define the seven key criteria which ensure that a text functions as a text and to illustrate them by using concrete examples from the speech ‘A More Perfect Union’ by Barack Obama. It will be ...