Exemplum : Living on Aboriginal Reserves in the Past

Dear readers! How's everything? We are happy to see you again. Continuing our program to present more about the example of genre, in this occasion, we presents the example of Exemplum text.

Perhaps, some of you are not familiar with this kind of genre. Here is the example of Exemplum genre. It is from radio transcript discussing about living on aboriginal reserves in the past.

Living on Aboriginal Reserves in the Past

It happened quite a lot - any time that white people would come to the place, the word would get straight around  "Lookout, here's the welfare or Look out, here's the police; and immediately we'd head bush. 

They were always treated with suspicion because of the days not too long before, when I was a kid, when they'd just come there and take the kids away. 

Mom used to tell me what used to happen, you know and whose kids were taken and where they went to.

It was a fear that was maintained and it's a fear maintained for most aboriginal people today. The suspicion of white people and their authority. The reason is due to white people just come into the mission and just stood over people, took kids away and laid their own law down. 

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Genre : Exemplum

Hello readers! Again, we are happy to see you again. In this occasion, we are going to present one of story genre; Exemplum. What is exemplum and how it is organized, we will elaborate in the following explanation. 

What is Exemplum?

Exemplum is a kind of story genre . It deals with incidents which are in some respects out of the usual. The incidents it self, dealt with so that they point to some more general value in the cultural context. The significance of the events doesn't lies with in the text but in the cultural context where they exemplify particular value.

What are the generic structure?

Every text type has own characteristics and generic structures. Generic structures tell us about how the texts are organized. The generic structure of Exemplum are : 

• Abstract (sometimes also known as synopsis) 
• Orientation
• Incidents
• Judgements
• Re-orientation

What are the language features?

• The language feature of Exemplum are as follow :
• It usually use conjunctive relations both temporal and logical. 
• It usually use exophoric reference (especially in Abstract or synopsis)
• It usually use of material and action process to explore the incidents. 
• It uses relational process in order to explore judgements. 
• It uses text reference and lexical  ties to point  to values  suggested by events. 

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