The non-prototypical recipe "Riso alla cacciatora" by Pellegrino Artusi: a case study in genre & type-sensitive intralingual natural translation

In this paper I will analyse the recipe # 43. Riso alla cacciatora by Pellegrino Artusi from a text-typological perspective, showing that it has the main surface features of narrative style. Nonetheless Artusi’s text is normally interpreted (i.e., intra-linguistically translated, in Jakobson’s terms) as a recipe. However, it is a far well-known fact that there is no necessary one-to-one correspondence between the surface features of a text on the one hand and its function on the other. So from the genre perspective Artusi’s text is to be considered a non-prototypical recipe at the interpersonal level (in Halliday’s functional terms), whereas from the typological perspective it is to be considered an instance of narrative style at the ideational and textual levels.