At SBL last fall I gave a paper on the future of text-types for the session on the IGNTP anniversary. Hugh Houghton kindly asked if I would record it for the IGNTP YouTube channel and the videographers at my school kindly lent their time and talents to record it. (If it looks like I had the paper memorized, I did not. It’s just a camera trick and a teleprompter.) The outline of the paper is as follows:
- Intro
- Text-types as a solution (2:00)
- Text-types as a problem (5:25)
- Suggestions for progress (13:50)
- Define “texts” (14:02)
- Clarify their purpose (16:02)
- Specify their relationship (17:08)
- Conclusion (18:12)
- Postscript (19:30)
Besides giving an overview of where I think the discussion on text-types is (and needs to go), this video explains why we are centering our TCI colloquium this summer on this question.
