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Social function
Generic Structure
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features
1
Description
To describe a particular person or thing
1. Identification
2. Description
1. Focus on Specific Participant
2. Frequent use of nominal groups
3. Use of Simple Present Tense
2
Report
To describe general inference to report something
1. General Classification
2. Description
1. Focus on Generis Participants
2. Use of relational processes to state what is and that which it is
3. Use of Simple Present Tense
4. No temporal Sequence
3
Explanation
To explain the processes involved in the formation or workings of natural or socio natural phenomena
1. General Statement to position the reader
2. Explanation
3. Closing
1. Focus on generic or human participant
2. Use mainly of Material and Relational Processes
3. Use mainly of temporal and causal circumstance and conjuction
4. Use of Simple present tense
5. Some use of Pasive Voice to get theme right


4
Procedure
To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps
1. Goal
2. Material needed
3. Steps
1. Focus on generalized human agent
2. Use of Simple Present Tense often imperative
3. Use of mainly temporal conjuction
4. Use of Material Processes
5
Recount
To retell past event for the purpose of informing
1. Orientation
2. Sequence of event                       
3. Reorientation
1. Specific Participant
2. Use Material Processes
3. Circumstance of place and time
4. Use past tense
6
Narrative
To amuse entertain the reader about the story
1. Orientation
2. Complication
3. Resolution
1. Specific and usually individual participant
2. Use Material Processes for behaviour and verbal processes
3. Use of Relational Processes and mental processes
4. Use of temporal conjuction and temporal circumstance
5. Use of past tense
7
Spoof
To retell past event with humorous twist
1. Orientation
2. Sequence of event
3. Twist
1. Individual Participant
2. Use Material Processes
3. Circumstance of place and time
4. Use past tense
8
News item
To inform readers, listeners or viewers about events of the day are considered newsworthy or important
1. Newsworthy event
2. Background event
3. Sources
1. Short, telegraphic information about story captured in head line.
2. Use of Material Processes to retell the event
3. Use of projecting Verbal Processes in sources stage.
4. Focus on circumstances



9
Anecdote
To share with others an account of an unusual or amusing incident
1. Abstract
2. Orientation          
3. Crisis
4. Incident
5. Coda
1. Use of exclamation, rhetorical question and intensifiers
2. Use of Material processes to tell what happened
3. Use of temporal conjunction

10
Discussion
To present  (at least) two points of view about an issue
1. Issue
2. Argument for point
3. Argument Against
4. Conclusion
1. Focus on generic human and generic non-human Participants
2. Use of Material Processes
3. Use of Relational Processes
4. Use of Mental Processes
5. Use of Comparative: contrastive and Consequential conjunction
6. Reasoning expressed as verbs and noun (abstraction)

11
Review
To critique an art work or event for a public audience Such works of art include movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets
1. Orientation
2. Evaluation
3. Interpretative
Recount
4. Evaluative
Summation

1. Focus on Particular Participants
2. Direct expression of opinions through use of attitudinal lexis
3. Use of elaborating and extending clause and group complexes to package the information
4. Use of metaphorical language

12
Analytical Exposition
To persuade the reader or listener that something is the case
1. Thesis:
2. Argument
3. Conclusion

1. Focus on generic human or non-human Participants
2. Use of simple present tense
3. Use of Relational Processes
4. Use of internal conjunction to stage argument
5. Reasoning through Causal Conjunction

13
Hortatory Expostion
To persuade the reader or listener that something should or should not be the case.
1. Thesis
2. Argument
3. Recommendation

1. Focus on generic human and non-human Participants, except for speaker or writer referring to self
2. Use of Mental Processes
3. Use of Material Processes
4. Use of Relational Processes
5. Use of simple present tense


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