Recount Text

What is recount???
Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past.

Social function of recount
-inform or to entertain the audience.
-provides information about what happened, when it happened, where it
happened and who was involved.

Schematic structure of recount
-Orientation:identify a person or thing acted or got involved in the
event,including the time, a certain place, the situation, etc.
-Series of Events:ordered in a chronological sequence.
-Re-orientation :not always (optional), it contains personal comments

Language feature of recount
-Recounts normally start by setting the scene, e.g., “what?”, “where?”,
“how?”.
-This is followed by a series of events, in order that they happened
(Chronological Order).
-The final paragraph should bring the reader back to the subject.
-They are written in the past tense and active voice
-They connectives related to time, e.g., after, then, next, meanwhile,
to cause, e.g., because, since, to contrast, e.g., however, although,
nonetheless.
-They use the first person (I, we) in autobiography and fiction,
otherwise they use the third person.
-They focus on specific people or event.

Recount text found in
-biographies and autobiographies
-newspapers or the television news
-letters and postcards
-textbooks
-conversations with friends

A little bit history about recount
-Derewianka (1990) identified three types of Recount text,
namely Personal Recount, Factual Recount, and Imaginative Recount.
-Hardy and Kalrwein (1990) divided two kinds of Recount,
namely Personal Recount and Historical Recount.