Definition of Narrative Text Social Function Generic Structures Lexicogrammatical Features

2.2.4 Narrative Text

This part discusses four points of narrative text. There are three elements of narrative text: social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features.

2.2.4.1 Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative text is type of text that tells about legend, fable, myth, and folktale to entertain readers. According to Gerot and Wignell 1995: 208 narrative text amuses reader with actual experience. Narrative is an event which tells a crisis first and finds resolution in the last story. There are five structures in narrative text. They are orientation, evaluation, complication, resolution, and re-orientation. The orientation introduces the participants of story and tells the setting of story. The evaluation retells the previous condition. The evaluation is optional for writer, you can write or not. The complication shows the problem arises. The resolution explains how the problem is solved. The re-orientation is optional part for writer.

2.2.4.2 Social Function

Gerot and Wignell 1994: 204 said that the social function of narrative text is to entertain readers with the fiction story like: fable, legend, myth, and folktale.

2.2.4.3 Generic Structures

Based on Gerot and Wignell 1994: 204 narrative text has five parts of generic structures. They are: 1 Orientation: to introduce the participants and the setting place and time. 2 Evaluation: to evaluate the before condition of story. It is optional. 3 Complication: to show the problem arises. 4 Resolution: to show the problem is solved. 5 Re-orientation: it is optional.

2.2.4.4 Lexicogrammatical Features

Narrative text uses some lexicogrammatical features as the sign. The lexicogrammatical features used in narrative text are described by Gerot and Wignell 1994: 208 as follows: 1 Focus on specific participants and individualised participants. 2 Use of Material, Behavioral, and Verbal Processes. 3 Use of Relational Proccesses and Mental Processes. 4 Use of temporal conjuctions and temporal Circumtances. 5 Use of simple past tense.

2.2.5 Action Research