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Field : Expressing congratulations through a congratulations card. It
is expressed in Congratulation Tenor
: It is a personal congratulation card. The relation between the aouthor and addresse is a friend or relative. We can see from
the Dear Sandra and Tom Mode
: It is written text. We can see from salutation Dear Sandra and Tom
4. 12.2 Communicative Purpose
From the register I can determine that the communicative purpose of the text is that the author express congratulation for a nice new Home of
Jeff and Hellen through congratulations card. We can see it from the phrase Congratulations Have a nice New Home.
4.12.3 Text Structure
The schematic Structure of the text is addressee Conveying Congratulation content Sender.
The addressee is found in the first line, beginning with Dear
Sandra and Tom, then followed with conveying congratulations e.g Congratulation then followed the content of the text in sentence Have a
Nice New Home. Sender of the text is Jeff and Helen. 4.12. 4 Significance Lexico-grammatical Features
The participants of the text are Sandra, Tom, Jeff and Hellen. The text focuses on expressing congratulation from Jeff and Hellen to their
friends, Sandra and Tom. There are 4 clauses in the text. All of them are minor clauses.
Referring to Gerot and Wignell 1995: 83 there are 3 types of minor clause : address vocative, greeting, and exclamation. In text 12, I found
2 of them are address type,one of them is exclamation type and the last one is major clause dependent clause.
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The examples of clause in the text are :
Address
Dear Sandra and Tom Jeff Hellen
Exclamation
Congratulations
Major Clause Dependent
Have a nice New Home The tense that occurs in the text is simple present tense. We can see
it in the clause Have a Nice New Home. If the author of the text writes the complete text it may look like You have a nice new home.
Based on the analysis above , the text is short functional text of the congratulations card type. Minor clause becomes dominant for expressing
the communicative purpose since the text is written just for a card. The writers do not need many sentences to express their communicative
purpose. By short text the addressee understood what the sender meant. In scrutinizing the structure of the text I can conclude that for
making a saying card, especially a congratulations card we just write
addressee convey saying content sender . For paying honour, we
may add solutation. In addition, I found the letter used in the text is different with
common letter. Pay attention to the text CONGRATULATION, it uses capital letter, and so does the clause Have a Nice New Home, every first
word of the clause uses capital letter. Lay out of the text seems different with common text, adressee is
written on top-left side of the paper, the expressing in the midle, and the sender is on the bottom - right – Side.
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Text 13. p. 168
4.13.1 Analysis of Text 13
