| dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the logical function of clause complexes in two selected
English nursery tales, Jack the Giant Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, using
Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) framework. The research focuses on
the realization of clause interpendency through the taxis system (parataxis, hypotaxis,
and taxis combination) and logico-semantic relations (elaboration, extension,
enhancement, idea and locution). The method employed is qualitative content analysis
based on Krippendorf involving processes such as unitizing, sampling, coding,
reducing, interpreting, and narrating. From 1,048 clauses analyzed, 341 wereidentified
as clause complexes. The findings show that enhancement is the most dominant logicosemantic relation (164 cases), followed by extension (123 cases), elaboration (100
cases), locution (57 cases), andidea (22 cases). The findings also show that paratxis is
the most dominant taxis in selected English nursery tales. While hypotaxis relations
mostly realized in enhancement, while extension appeared dominantly in parataxis.
These results reveal that although nursery tales are intended for children, they often
employ complex grammatical structure, therefore, balancing narrative engagement and
linguistic accessibility is crucial to support children’s language development and
reading comprehension. | en_US |
