ANALYSIS OF THE STORY “TWO MANS” BY GÜNTHER WEISENBORN WITH REGARDS TO TEXT TYPES

Abstract

In a literary text, the author aims to describe a fact and an event, to clarify a point or to prove a claim. According to these purposes and acts, the author’s text has different functions like descriptive, narrative, expository and argumentative text types. All these features can be only in a text. The story by Günther Weisenborn, one of contemporary German authors, “Two Mans” has some of these different text types at the same time. In this study, functions and types of the text are shown on the example of this story, in which social and personal realities are implied.

Keywords

• Günther Weisenborn
• Text
• Text Types
• Text Typology