e. News Item
There are three major elements of news item. Those are social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features.
1. Social Function The social function of news items was to inform readers, listeners, or
viewers about events of the day which were considered newsworthy or important.
2. Generic Structure The generic structure of news item was newsworthy events which
recounted the event in summary form, background events which elaborated what happened, and sources which were commented by participants in, witnesses to,
and authorities’ expert on the event.
3. Lexicogrammatical Features When we wrote a news item, we usually used short, telegraphic
information about story captured in headline and also we used material processes to retell the event and projecting verbal processes in source stage. It focused on
circumstances.
f. Report
There are three major elements of report. Those are social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features.
1. Social Function The social function was to describe the way things are, with reference to a
range of natural and social phenomena in our environment.
2. Generic Structure The generic structure of a report was general classification which told
what the phenomenon discussed and description which told what the phenomenon discussed was liked in terms of parts, qualities, and habits or behaviours.
3. Lexicogrammatical Features It focused on generic participants, used simple present tense and relational
processes to state what was and that which it was. Here, there was no temporal sequence.
g. Analytical Exposition
There are three major elements of analytical exposition. Those are social function, generic structure, and lexicogrammatical features.
1. Social Function The social function was to persuade the reader or listener that something
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