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<purpose>

characterizes a single purpose or communicative function of the text.

Module corpusCCAHTD

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.typed @type@subtype
@typespecifies a particular kind of purpose.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.enumerated
Suggested values
persuade
didactic, advertising, propaganda, etc.
express
self expression, confessional, etc.
inform
convey information, educate, etc.
entertain
amuse, entertain, etc.
<div type="verse">
  <head>Night in Tarras</head>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>At evening tramping on the hot white road</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
  <lg type="stanza">
    <l>A wind sprang up from nowhere as the sky</l>
    <l>…</l>
  </lg>
</div>
@degreespecifies the extent to which this purpose predominates.
Status
Optional
Datatype
teidata.certainty

Classes and content

May contain

analysis

certainty

core

dictionaries

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

tagdocs

textcrit

transcr

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

corpus

Note

Usually empty, unless some further clarification of the type attribute is needed, in which case it may contain running prose

Example

<purpose type="persuade" degree="high"/>
<purpose type="entertain" degree="low"/>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq.limited"/>
  </content>