EXEMPLUM Advanced GenreBased Writing 2 th Week By
EXEMPLUM Advanced Genre-Based Writing 2 -th Week By Dra. Sri Mulatsih, M. Pd. asihpnrg@yahoo. com
SOCIAL FUNCTION o Deals with incidents that are in some respects out of the usual. o The incidents are dealt with so that they point to some more general value in the cultural context. o Invoke a moral judgement about a noteworthy event
SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE o (Abstract or Synopsis) signals the retelling of an unusual incident – which rises moral judgement o Orientation sets the scene o Incident (s) provides details of the unusual incident - which rises moral judgement o Judgement (s) interpretation on the unusual event morally o (Reorientation plus Coda) concluding comment or reflection on the exemplum
SIGNIFICANT GRAMMATICAL/LANGUAGE FEATURES o o q o o o Use of exophoric reference (especially in the Abstract or Synopsis stage) e. g. it, the place, we’d head bush, Mum etc. Use of conjunctive relations both, temporal and logical e. g. immediately, because, when, etc. Dominant use of past tense e. g. Went, rode, was, came, etc. Material or action processes to explore incidents e. g. head, come, take, went, came, etc. Relational processes to explore judgements e. g. it was a fear, it’s a fear, etc. Text reference and lexical ties to point to values suggested by events e. g. it happened quite a lot (pointing forward to events to come) e. g. it was a fear… (pointing back to value of events)
EXAMPLES o TRANSCRIPT OF A RADIO INTERVIEW WITH CES PATTON o UNKNOWN PERSON
- Slides: 5