1. Recount Text
Social Function : to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Generic Stucture:
a. Orientation: provides the setting and introduces the participants
b. Events : tell what happened, in what sequences
c. Reorientation: optional closure of events
Significant lexiogrammatical features:
Focus on specific participants, use material processes, circumstances on time and place, use past tense, focus on temporal sequence
2. Report Text
Social Function : to describe the way things are with reference to a range of natural, manmade, and social phenomenoa in our environment
Generic Stucture:
a. General classification: tells what phenomena under the discussion
b. Description: tells what the phenomenon under the discussion is like in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behaviour.
Significant Lexiogrammatical Features: focus on generic participants, use relational processes to state what is and that which it is. use simple present tense
3. Narrative TextSocial Function :to amuse, entertainn
Generic Stucture:
a. Orientation: sets the scene and intruuduces the participants
b. Evaluations: a stepping back to evaluate the plight.
c. Complication: a crisis arises
d. Resolution : the crisis is resolved
e. reorientation: optional
Significant lexiogrammatical features: focus n specific participants, use material processes, behavioral processes, and verbal processes. USe temporal conjuctions, and temporal circumstances, use past tense
4. Procedure Text
Social Function : to describe how something is accomplished through a sequences of actions or steps.
Generic Stucture:
a. Goal
b. Material
c. Steps 1-n
Significant lexicogrammatical features:
Use simple present tense, often imperative. use mainly material processes
5. Descriptive Text
Social Function : to describe a particular person, places, or things
Generic Stucture:
a. Identification: identifies the phenomenon to be described
b. Description: describes parts, qualities, characteristics
Significant lexicogrammatical features:
Focus on specific participants, use simple present tense