Recount

RECOUNT TEXT

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

Definition:

It is a text that retell past events, usually in the order in which they happened

Social Function:

To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

Generic Structure of a recount text:

·         Orientation: provides the setting and introduces participants.

·         Events: tell what happened, in what sequence.

·         Re-orientation: optional-closure of events.

Significant Lexicogrammatical features:

·         Focus on specific participants

·         Use of material processes

·         Circumstances of time and place

·         Use of past tense

·         Focus on temporal sequence.

EXAMPLE

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Review

REVIEW TEXT

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

Definition: it is a text that provides someone’s response or reaction, or evaluation to an art work (a book, film, play, and so on) by providing a description of the work and a judgment.

Social Function:

To critique an art work, event for a public audience. Such works of art include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts, and ballets.

Generic Structure of a review text:

·     Orientation: places the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or through analogue with a non-art object or event.

·        Interpretive Recount summaries the plot and/or provides and account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into being; is optional, but if present, of recursive.

·    Evaluation: provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive.

·    Evaluation Summation: provides a kind of punch line which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event as a whole; is optional.

Significant Lexicogrammatical features:

·         Focus on Particular Participants.

·   Direct expression of options through use of Attitudinal Epithets in nominal groups; qualitative Attributes and Affective Mental Processes.

·         Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information.

·     Use of metaphorical language (e.g., The wit was there, dexterously ping ponged to and from …).

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Discussion

DISCUSSION TEXT

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

Definition:

A Discussion text is a text type that gives the for and against, the positive and negative, or good points and bad points which is meant to presents to the audience different opinions on a topic and, at the end, your opinion.

Social Function:

To present (at least) two points of view about an issue.

Generic Structure of a recount text:

·         Issue:

-          Statement

-          Preview

·         Arguments for and against or statement of differing points of view.

-          point

-          elaborate

·         Conclusion or Recommendation.

Significant Lexicogrammatical features:

·         Focus on generic human and generic non-human Participants.

·         Use of:

-          Material processes, e.g. has produced, have developed, to feed.

-          Relational processes, e.g., is, could have, cause, are.

-          Mental processes, e.g., feel.

·         Use of comparative: contrastive and consequential conjunctions.

·         Reasoning expressed as verbs and nouns (abstractive).

EXAMPLE

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Explanation

EXPLANATION TEXT

DEFINITION AND EXAMPLE

Definition:

An explanation text tells us how or why something occurs. It concerns about the steps rather than the things. It is meant to tell each step of the process (ho) and to give any reasons (why).

Social Function:

To explain the processes involved in the formation or workings of natural or socio cultural phenomena.

Generic Structure of a recount text:

·         A general statement to position the reader.

·         A sequenced explanation of why or how something occurs.

Significant Lexicogrammatical features:

·         Focus generic, non-human participants.

·         Use mainly of Material and relational processes.

·         Use mainly of temporal and causal Circumstances and Conjunctions.

·         Some use of passive voice to get Theme right.

 EXAMPLE

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