GENRE

GENRE

                                                                                             Creted by : AFLAKHI RIZAL / 1^A

NARATIVE

Social Function    :  to amuse entertain and to deal with actual vicarious experience in defferent ways; narrative deal with problematic event which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.

Generic structure  : Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

                                   Evaluation : a stepping back to evaluate the plight.

                                   Complication : a crisis arises.

                                   Resolution : the crisis resolved, for better or for worse.

                                   Re-orientation : optional.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

Ø Focus on specific and usually individualized participants

Ø Use of material processes

Ø Use of relational processes and mental processes

Ø Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumstances

Ø Use of past tense

DESCRIPTION

Social Function     : To describe a particular person, place or thing

Generic structure : Identification : identifies phenomenon to be described.

                                  Description : describes parts, qualities, characteristics.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

®   Focus on specific participants

®  Use to attributive and identifying processes

®  Frequent use of epithets and classifiers in nominal groups

®  Use of simple present tense

NEWS ITEMS

 Social Function  : To inform readers, liseteners, or viewers about event of the day which are considered newsworthy or important

Generic structure   : Newsworthy event : recount the event in summary form.

                                    Background event : elaborate what happened, to whom, in whale Circumstances.

  Sources : comment by participants in, witnesses to and authorities expert

    on the event.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

v Short, telegraphic information about story captured in headline

v Use of material processes to retell the event

v Use of projecting verbal processes in sources stage

v Focus of on circumstances

SPOOF

Social Function     : To retell an event with a humorous twist

Generic structure  : Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

                                   Event

                                   twist : ending with a little humor.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

ü Focus on individual participants

ü Use of material processes

ü Circumstances of time and place

ü Use of past tense

ANECTODE

Social Function     : To share with other an account of an unusual or amusing incident

Generic structure  : Abstract : signals to control of an unusual incident.

                                  Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

                                  Crisis : provides details of the unusual incident.

                                  Reaction : reaction to crisis.

 Coda : optional reflection on or evaluation of the incident.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

·      Use of exclamation, rhetorical question and intensifiers

·      Use of material processes to tell what happened

·      Use of temporal conjunctions

DISCUSSION

Social Function     : To present (at least) two point of view about an issue

Generic structure  : Issue

 Argument for point

 Elaboration

  Conclusion

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

Ø Focus on generic human and generic non-human participants

Ø Use of material processes {has produced, have developed}

Ø Use of relational processes {is, could have, cause, are}

Ø Use of metal processes {feel}

Ø Use of comparative contrastive and consequential conjunctions

REVIEWS

Social Function     : To critique an art work or event for a public audience such work of art

include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets.

Generic structure  : Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

 Interprentive recount : summaries the plot or provides an of how the

reviewed rendition of the work came into  being is

optimal but if present, often recursive.

Evaluation : a stepping back to evaluate the plight.

Evaluation summation :  provide a kind of punchline which sums upthe

reviewer’s opinion of the art as whole is optional

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

§  Focus on particular participants

§  Direct expression of opinion though use of attitudinal lexis

§  Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complex to package the information

§  Use of metaphorical language

RECOUNT

Social Function     : To retell event for the purpose of informing or entertaining

Generic structure  : Orientation : sets the scene and introduces the participants.

                                   Event

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

o   Focus on specific participants

o   Use of material processes

o   Circumstances of time and place

o   Use of past tenses

o   Focus on temporal sequence

REPORT

Social Function     : To describe the ways thing are, with reference to a range of natural, man made

and social phenomena in our environment

Generic structure  : General classification

                                   Description

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

Y Focus on generic participants

Y Use of relational processes to state what is and that whichit is

Y Use of simple present tense

Y No temporal sequence

PROCEDURE

Social Function     : To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of action or step

Generic structure  : Goal : target

                                   Material needed : required for all procedural texts

                                   Step 1-n : following to achieving goal

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

S Focus on generalized human agents

S Use of simple present tense, often imperative

S Use mainly of temporal conjunctions

S Use mainly of material processes

EXPLANATION

Social Function     : To explain the processes involved in the information or working of natural

                                   or socio-cultural phenomena

Generic structure  : General statement

                                   Explanation

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

S Focus on generic, non human participants

S Use mainly of material and relational processes

S Use mainly of temporal and causal circumstances and conjunctions

S Use of simple present tense

S Use of passive voice to get theme right

HORTATORY EXPOSITION

Social Function     :To persuade the readers or listeners that something should or not should the case

Generic structure  : Thesis

  Argument

    Recommendation

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

Ø Focus on generic human and generic non-human participants, except speaker

Ø Use of mental processes

Ø Use of material processes

Ø Use of relational processes

Ø Use of simple present tense

ANALITYCAL EXPOSITION

Social Function     : To persuade the reader or listener that something is the case

Generic structure  : Thesis

  Argument

                                      Conclusion

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :

N Focus on generic human and generic non-human participants

N Use of simple present tense

N Use of relational processes

N Use of internal conjunction to stage argument

N Reasoning through causal conjunction or nominalisation