Purpose:
- To critique an art work, event for a public audience.
Examples: work of arts include: movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts and ballets
Generic Structure:
- Orientation:
Place the work in its general and particular context, often by comparing it with others of its kind or
through analogue with a non-art object or event.
- Interpretive Recount
Summarizes the plot and/or provides an account of how the reviewed rendition of the work came into
being; is optional, but if present, often recursive.
- Evaluation (It can be more than one evaluation)
provides an evaluation of the work and/or its performance or production; is usually recursive
- Evaluative summation (Summary)
provides a kind of punch line which sums up the reviewer’s opinion of the art event as a whole; is
optional.
Language features:
- Focus on Particular Participants (Participant tertentu)
- Direct expression of options through use of Attitudinal Epithets in nominal groups; qualitative Attributes and Affective Mental Processes
- Use Adjectives showing attitude, e.g.: good, bad, etc.
- Use of long and complex clauses
- Use of metaphorical language (e.g., the wit was there, dexterously ping ponged to and from …)
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