Narrative Text: Pengertian, Generic Structure, Tujuan, dan Ciri-ciri.

Social Function

To amuse, entertain and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways. Narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds 2 resolution.

Generic Structure

1. Orientation : Sees the scene and introduces the participants.
2. Evaluation : a stepping back to evaluate the plight.
3. Complication : a crisis arises.
4. Resolution : the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse.
5. Re-Orientation : (optional).
6. Coda : moral value.

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

1. Focus on specific and usually individualized Participants.
2. Use of Material Processes and in the text Behaviour and Verbal Processes.
3. Use of Retational Processes and Mental Processes.
4. Use of temporal conjunctions and temporal Circumstances.
5. Use of Past Tense

Ciri Umum

Tujuan Komunikatif Teks

Menghibur pendengar atau pembaca (yang bertalian dengan pengalaman nyata, khayal atau peristiwa pelik yang mengarah ke suatu krisis, yang pada akhirnya menemukan suatu penyelesaian.

Struktur Teks

1. Pengenalan tokoh, waktu, tempat.
2. Pengembangan konflik.
3. Penyelesaian konflik.
4. Koda: Perubahan yang terjadi pada tokoh dan pelajaran yang dapat dipetik dari cerita.

Ciri Kebahasaan

Menggunakan:

1. nouns tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan dan benda tertentu dalam cerita, misalnya, stepsisters, homework, dsb

2. time connectives dan conjunction untuk mengurutkan kejadian-kejadian, misalnya, then, before that, soon, dsb.

3. adverb dan adverbial phrases untuk menunjukkan lokasi kejadian atau peristiwa, misalnya here, in the class, happily ever after, dsb.

4. action verb dalam past tense, stayed, climbed, went, dsb.

5. saying verbs yang menandai ucapan seperti: said, told, promised, dan thinking verb yang menandai pikiran, persepsi atau perasaan tokoh dalam cerita, misalnya thought, understood, felt, dsb.

Features Of A Narrative

Construction a Narrative

the steps for constructing a narrative text are:

1. an orientation (can be paragraph, a picture or opening chapter) in which the narrator tells the audience about who in the story, when the story is taking place and where the action is happening.

2. a complication that sets off a chain of events that influence what will happen in the story.

3. a sequence of events where the characters react in the complication.

4. a resolution in which the characters finally sort out the complication.

5. a coda that provides a comments or moral based on what has been learned from the story (an optional step).

Language features of a narrative

The language features usually found in a narrative are:

1. specific characters
2. time words that connect events to tell when they occur.
3. verbs to show the action that occur in the story.
4. desciptive words  to portray the characters and settings.

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