Preformatted plan for a genre

Abstract The notion of text plan (PT) is re-discussed in this study and brings considerations that contribute to the forms of characterization of the PT in analysis of genre in more stable formats. Our reflections (theoretical/methodological) focused on what could distinguish, by another look, a fixed PT (PTF) and an occasional PT (PTO). We asked whether it would be more appropriate to verify the prototypical dominance of the genre, treating it as a preformatted plan (PPF). Thereunto, we retake the analysis of sequential connections made by Adam (2011; 2017), using fables as examples. Data from the analysis allowed the determination of a tool, more comprehensive in terms of prototypical recognition, reinforcing our hypothesis that the notion of PT has brought relation with the compositional nature of genre. The observation of the corpus by PPF allowed obtaining a scheme that contemplates the three elements that characterize the genres (theme, style and composition form).