genre
Memiliki:
Particular purposes
( communicative purposes )
Particular stages, distinctive : beginning,
middles, and ends ( generic srtucture )
Particular linguistic features
1. RECOUNT
Social function :
To retell events for the purposes of informing or
entertaining
Generic structure :
Orientation : provides the setting and introduces
participants
( giving information about what, who, where and
when)
event : to tell what happened in what sequence
RE Orientation : optional , closure of events
2. NARRATIVE
SOCIAL FUNGTION
3. Procedure
Social function :
To describe how something is accomplished
through a sequence of actions or steps
Generic structure
Goal
Material (not required for all procedure teks)
Steps 1 n ( goal followed by a series of steps
oriented to achieving the goal )
4. Description
Social function
To describe a particular person, place or thing
Generic structure
Identification , identify phenomenon to be
described
Description : describe or giving information
about specific participant eg : comes from, the
colour, the size, the favourite things etc
5. News items
Social function:
To inform readers , listeners or viewers about
events of the day which are considered
newsworthy or important
Generic stucture :
Newsworthy event(s) : recount the events in
summary form
Background events : elaborate what happenend
to whom, in what circumstancec
Sources : comment by participants in, witnesses
to and aythorities expert on the events
6 .REPORT
Social function :
to describe the way things are with reference to arrange
of natural , man made and social phenomena in our
environment
it is the result of systematic observation or analysis
it is general conclusion, general statement about
Generic structure:
General classification: tell what phenomena under
discussion is
Description : tells the phenomena is like in the terms of
*parts and their function
*Qualities
*Habits or behaviours
7. ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION
Social function :
To persuade the reader or listener that something is the
case that there is a case to concern, to pay attention to )
Generic stucture:
Thesis
Position : introduces topic and indicates writers position
Preview :outlines the main arguments to be presented
Arguments
Points : restates main arguments outlined in preview
Elaboration : develops and supports each point / argument
8 HORTATORY EXPOSITION
Social function:
To persuade the reader that something should or should
not be the case
It exhort someone to take or to desist in some action
Generic structure:
Thesis : announcement of issue of concern
Arguments : reasons for concern, leading to
recommendation
Recommendation : statement of what ought not to happen
9. SPOOF
Social function :
To retell an event with humorous twist
Generic structure:
Orientation : sets the scene
Events
: tell what happened
Twist
: provides the punchline
10.Explanation
Social function:
To give an account of how something works or reasons for some
phenomenon ( why is it so? How does it work?)
Two basic types :
Explaining how : mechanical explanation ( how does a pump work?)
Technological explanation ( how does a computer work? )
System explanation ( How does a company work? )
Natural explanation ( how are mountains formed? )
Explaining why :
Why does things float and other sink?
Why does iron go rusty?
Generic structure :
General statement
A sequenced explanation of why or how something occurs
11. Discussion
Social function
To present ( at least ) two points of view about an issue
To look at an issue from a range of perspectives before
making judgement or recommendation
Generic structure :
Issue : statement and preview
Argument for and against or statements of different point
of view : point and elaboration
Conclusion or recommendations
12. Review
Social function :
To critique an art work or event for a public audience
( works of art include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas,
recordings, exhibition, concert and ballets )
Generic structure :
Orientation : places the work in its general and particular context.
Often by comparing it with its kind or through analogue with a non
art object or events
Interpretative Recount : summaries the plot and / or provides an
account of how the work came into being
Evaluation : usually recursive
( evaluation 1,2,3, )
Evaluative summation
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