Definition
A procedural discourse is a discourse that
- is used to tell the addressee how to do something
- presents a series of steps leading to a goal, and
- centers on events that are contingent one on another, rather than focusing on the performer of the events.
Examples
- Directions on how to get somewhere
- Instructions on how to make something
- Recipes
Sources 4
- Longacre 1990, 2
- Peck 1981, 286
- Longacre 1983, 3, 5, 9, 38
- Larson 1984, 366, 369