TEXT TYPOLOGIES APPLIED TO ACADEMIC TEXTS ON UNIVERSITY WEBPAGES
TEXT TYPOLOGIES APPLIED TO ACADEMIC TEXTS ON UNIVERSITY WEBPAGES

Summary/Abstract: The current study is part of a broader research seeking to set up guidelines with suggestions and recommendations for the clear and efficient communication of academic course and programme descriptions on university webpages. The aim of this paper is to revise the existing classifications of genres and text-types which are the most significant to the development of research of institutional academic language, concentrating on the typologies based on contextual focus and communicative functions of language, and then position the web-based academic texts in a distinct textual and generic typology. For the explanation of these theoretical concepts text samples extracted from several Romanian university websites have been used. The findings of the research show that several text typologies work and can be applied to course and programme descriptions, as well as on other types of academic texts belonging to the institutional academic language, since they are multifunctional texts, sharing several communicative functions.

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