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4.5.2 Communicative Purpose of the Text
The communicative purpose of the text is that the author, the hotel manager, helps us do tasks with set of instruction or through a
sequence of action or steps. Due to the text is produced by the hotel manager of Hotel Royal Taipei when checking out and in case of fire,
so he means helping guiding reader renter of the room what the room renter should do when checking out and in case of fire.
4.5.3 Text structure The generic stucture of the text is Goal steps Goal steps
We can see the goal in clause when checking out. We can see the steps in clauses : check out by 12.00 noon, Be sure to
take all your personal belongings, Leave your keys at the front desk, Ask for the bill and pay at the cashier’s desk.
We find the goal again in line 6 in clause In Case of Fire. After that we find steps. The steps are in clauses : Go to the nearest FIRE ALARM box
and pull the alarm. Fire extinguishers are available next to each fire alarm box; Do not use elevators; follow the signs to the nearest
EMERGENCY EXIT in the order to evacuate the building.
4.5.4 Significance Lexico-grammatical Features :
The text focuses on set of instructions when Checking Out and In Case of Fire.
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There are 9 clauses in the text. From 9 clauses I found kinds of verbs. There are behavioral process 1 , material process 7 ,
relational process 1 . Material process becomes the dominant one. The examples of process found in the text are:
Behavioral process :
Check out by 12.00 noon
Material Process
Be sure to take all your personal belonging Leave your keys at the front desk
Ask for the bill And pay at cashier’s desk
Go to the nearest FIRE ALARM box And pull the alarm
Follow the signs to the nearest EMERGENCY EXIT ....
Relational Process
Fire extinguishers are available next to each fire alarm box The tense that occur in the text is simple present tense. All the
clauses are present tense, mainly imperative.They are : Check out by 12.00 noon
Be sure to take all your personal belongings
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Leave your keys at the front desk Ask for the bill and pay at the cashier’s front desk
Go to the nearest FIRE ALARM box and pull the alarm. Fire extinguishers are available next to each fire alarm box.
Do not use elevators Follow the signs to the nearest EMERGENCY EXIT in the order to
evacuate the building Other language features that supported the texts are :
Use of action verbs , e.g.,leave, go to, follow, to take pay, pull.
Use of noun phrase . They are personal belongings, keys, front desk,
bill, cahier’s desk, fire alarm extinguishers, elevators, emergency exit, the building.
Use of adverbial phrases : 12.00 noon
Use of prepositional phrase :
By, at, next, to, in. Based on the analysis above the text is modified procedure text
since the generic structure is goal steps goal steps. As we know, procedure text has generic structure goal material steps. We can see
the pattern from Gerot and Wignell 1994: 2006. The text gives 2 main
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informations to the readers in a hotel. They are to follow instructions when checking out and in case of fire.
Text 6. p. 123
4.6.1 Analysis of text 6
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