Purpose: To amuse, entertain, and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways; narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point to some kind, which in turn finds resolutoion.
Generic Structure: 1. Orientation 2. Complication 3. Resolution 4. Reorientation
Orientation : sets the scene and introduce the participants
Complication : a crisis arisis
Resolution : the crisis a resolved, for better or for worse
Reorientation : optional
Dominant Language Features: 1. Using Past Tense 2. Using action verb 3. Chronologically arranged
Significant lexicogrammatical feature
1. focus on specifict and usually individualized participants
2. use of material processes and mental processes
3. use of temporal conjunctions and temporal circumtances
