Narration

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I have posted some kinds of text before, but i have not posted about social function, generic structure and grammar features yet. At this chance, i’m going to post them, for the first is Narration, and others text will be posted later ya,, check it out,,,,

TEXT GENRES

1.       Narration

GENRE	SOCIAL FUNCTION/PURPOSE	GENERIC STRUCTURE	GRAMMAR FEATURES
N A R R A T I V E	To amuse/entertain and to deal with actual or vicarius experience in different ways. It deals with problematic events which lead to a crisis and  resolution	·    Orientation; sets the scene and introduce the participants. ·    Evalution; a stepping back to evaluate the plight (optional). ·    Complication; a crisis arises. ·    Resolution; the crisis is resolved, for better or worse. ·    Reorientation; closure of plight, moral values (optional).	·      Focus on specific and usually individualized participants. ·      Use of material, verbal, behavioral processes. ·      Use of relational and mental processes. ·      Use of temporal conjunctions and circumtances. ·      Use of past tense
R E C O U N T	To retell events for the purpose of informin or entertaining.	·    Orientation; provides the setting and introduce the participants. ·    Events; tells what happened, in what sequence. ·    Reorientation; closure of events (optional)	·      Focus on specific participants ·      Use of material processes ·      Circumtances of time and place ·      Use of past tense ·      Focus on temporal sequence
N E W S I T E M	To inform about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important	·    Newsworthy events; recounts the events in summary form. ·    Background events; elaborate what happened, to whom, an what circumtances. ·    Sources; comments by participants, witnesses, and authorities experts on the event.	·  Short information about the story captured in headline ·  Use of material processes to retell the event ·  Use of projecting verbal processes in sources stage ·  Focus on circumtances
A N E C D O T E	To share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident which tends to be silly and fictive.	·    Abstact; signals the retelling of an unusual incident ·    Orientation; sets the scene ·    Crisis; provides details of the unusual incident ·    Reaction; reaction to crisis ·    Coda; reflection or evaluation of the incident	·  Use of exclamations, rhetorical questions, and intensifiers(really, very, quite, etc) to point up the significance of the events ·  Use of material processes to tell what happened ·  Focus on temporal conjunctions