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genre-based writing
English Language Teaching Department 3A
Lacturer : Mrs. Marifatul Fadhilah,M.Ed.
Tatimmatul Ianah 133411003
Mohammad Assola 133411016
LANGUAGE
FEATURE
SOCIAL
FUNCTION
EXAMPLE
GENERIC
STRUCTURE

EXEMPLUM
SOCIAL FANCTION

To deals with incidents which are in some
respects out of the usual, point to some more
general value in the cultural context.



THE GENERIC STRUCTURE

The generic structure of Exemplum are :
Abstract (sometimes also known as synopsis)
Orientation
Incidents(s)
Judgements
Re-orientation

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the language features

The language feature of Exemplum are as follow :
Material and action processes to explore incidents
Relational processes to explore judgments
Text reference and lexical ties to point to values suggested
by events.
Use of exclammative,rhetorical questions and intensifiers
to point up the significance of events
Use of temporal and continuative conjunctions

"The King And His Wife

The son's story recounts the story of a king's
tailor's assistant, a youth by the name of Nedui.
One day while he is away, his master gives the
other apprentices bread and honey, but does not save
any for Nedui, telling them that Nedui "would not eat
honey even if he were here." Upon learning that he has
been left out, Nedui avenges himself upon his master by
telling the eunuch whom the king has set over the
apprentices as their supervisor that the tailor is subject
to seizures of madness, during which he becomes violent
and dangerous.
Abstract
In fact, Nedui claims, he has killed those
who have happened to be near him when he is in
the grip of such a fit. To protect himself, Nedui says,
he binds and beats the tailor when such a fit comes
over him. He also tells the eunuch what to look for:
"When you see him looking all around and feeling
the floor with his hands and getting up from his seat
and picking up the chair on which he is seated,
then you will know that he is mad, and if you do not
protect yourself and your servants, he will beat you
on the head with a club."
Orientation
The next day, Nedui hides the tailor's shears, and,
when the master, hunting for them, behaves as Nedui
mentioned to the eunuch, the eunuch orders his servants
to bind the tailor and beats himself with a club. His
servants also beat him until he is unconscious and "half
dead."
When he regains consciousness, the tailor asks the
eunuch what crime he has committed to have deserved
such a beating, and the eunuch tells him what Nedui told
him about the tailor's seizures. "Friend, when have you
ever seen me crazy?" the master asks his apprentice, to
which question he receives, from Nedui, the rejoinder:
"When have you ever seen me refuse to eat honey?"
Incident
The father tells the son the moral of the story:
"The tailor deserved his punishment because if he
had kept the precept of Moses, to love his brother as
himself, this would not have happened to him."

Judgment
LANGUAGE FEATURES
1. Material and action processes to explore incidents.
2. Relational processes to explore judgments.
3. Text reference and lexical ties to poit to values
suggested by events.
4. Use of exclammative, rhetorical questions and
intensifiers to point up the significance of events.
5. Use of temporal and continuative conjuctions.