Communicative Purposes, Generic Structure and Grammar

Education English | Continuation of Definition of Genre | Communicative Purposes, Generic Structure and Grammar |  Nieminen, T (2004: 4) said that the communicative purpose is influences the formation of genres. The first thing that should we do when we plan to write some text is know the purpose of the text, for what we write the text, for whom the text directed and what the contents include the text. All those things influence overall structure of a text (structure, grammar and vocabularies). In short, a text is structured in a way to achieve their purposes.
There will be a different structure of the text if you want to re-tell an event. For example, in creating a recount text, which is a text that re-tells –about past events. We will begin this story with orientation, where we provide the setting and introduce the participants, and then provide the sequence of events that has happened. In short, the structure of a text follows some particular stages, the beginning, middle and end parts of a text. The structure is varied according to the purpose.
The differences are also found in grammar choices. Description texts tend to use simple present tense, and the identifying and attributive processes (the use of verbs being and having). However, in recount text, since the purpose is to retell about a past event, of course it will use past tense, and also the temporal connectives which indicate sequence of events (after,next, then, etc.). In the selection of language features in each genre also play an important role. The language features it should be suitable with each genres (the way the text organized, the use of particular grammatical structures, and the vocabulary choices), influence how the message are received by the audience.