Le fonctionnement du discours instructionnel dans la communication professionnelle

Abstract

The goal of this article is to capture an aspect of communication mediated by a procedural
text, namely, a type of social action described as discursive practice that relates two sub-levels: the production/writing level and the level of use.
The procedural text operation is a process by which an author (the one that produces text), with the help of language (but not only), enables one or more users (receivers) to acquire and/or to carry out a procedure/instruction.
As far as the text analysis is concerned, we will try to spot the specific linguistic markers of different types of instructional discourses and see if there are structural invariants that would be common to all these discourses.