10 macam text genre

1.Narative

Social Function : To amuse, entertain, and to deal with actual or vicarious experiences in different ways.
Generic Structure: 1. Orientation
2. Complication
3. Resolution
4. Evaluation
5. Reorientation
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features:
1. A focus on specific usually individualized participants
2. The use of Simple Past
3. The use of temporal conjunction
4. The use of noun phrases

2.Descriptive

Social Function : To describe a particular person, place, or thing.
Generic Structure : 1. Identification
2. Description
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. The use Simple Present Tense
2. Focus on Specific Participant

3.Recount

Social Function : To tell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Generic Structure : 1. Orientation
2. Events
3. Reorientation
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Use of past tense
2. Focus on temporal sequence
3. Noun and Noun phrases

4.Report
Social Function : To describe the way things are with reference to a range of natural, man-made and social phenomenon in our environment.
Generic Structure : 1. General Classification
2. Description
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Focus on generic participants
2. Use of Present Tense

5.Procedure
Social Function : To describe how something is accomplished through a sequnce of actions or steps
Generic Structure : 1. Goals
2. Materials
3. Steps
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Use of Simple Present Tense often imperative
2. Use mainly of temporal conjunction/connectives
3. Use action verbs


6.Analytical Exposition
Social Function : To persuade the reader or listener that something is the case
Generic Structure : 1. Thesis Position
2. Arguments Points
3.Reiteration
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Use General nouns, Technical verbs, Relating verbs, Thinking verbs
2. Modal adverbs
3. Connectives
4. Evaluative language
5. Passive sentence

7.Hortatory Exposition
Social Function : To persuade reader that something should or should not be the case
Generic Structure : 1. Thesis
2. Arguments
3. Statement
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Use Abstract nouns, Technical verbs, Relating verbs, Action verbs, Thinking verbs
2. Modal adverbs
3. Connectives
4. Simple Present Tense
5. Passive sentence
6. Evaluative language

8.Review
Social Function : To critique an art work, event for a public audience.
Generic Structure : 1. Orientation
2. Interpretive Recount
3. Evaluation
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Focus on Generic Participants
2. Use adjective clause
3. Metafor

9.Discussion
Social Function : To present two points of view about an issue.
Generic Structure : 1. Issue
2. Arguments
3.Point
4. Elaboration
5. Conclusion or Recommendation
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. General nouns
2. Relating verbs
3. Thinking verbs
4. Additives, contrastives and causal connectives
5. Detailed noun groups
6. Modalities

10. News item
Social Function : To inform, readers, listeners, or viewers about events of the day which are considered newsworthy or important
Generic Structure : 1. Newsworthy Events
2. Background Events
3. Source
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features :
1. Focus on something, person, and animal
2. Use action verbs
3. Use Past Tense