GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY IN SCIENTIFIC AND NARRATIVE TEXTS
A THESIS
BY:
RABIATUL ADAWIYAH REG. NO. 110705013
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2015
GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY IN SCIENTIFIC AND
NARRATIVE TEXTS
A THESIS
BY:
RABIATUL ADAWIYAH
REG. NO. 110705013
Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara Medan in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from
Department of English.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2015
Approved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of
Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as thesis for The Sarjana Sastra Examination.
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degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Sumatera Utara, Medan.
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TITLE OF THESIS : GRAMMATICAL INTRICACY AND LEXICAL DENSITY
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motivation, suggestion, and guidance. However, I shall name a few as the following:
1. Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, M.A. the Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies
2. Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S. the Head of English Department and
Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, Ph.D. the Secretary of English Department
3. Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, MA., Ph. D. my supervisor and Rudy Sofyan, S.S.,
M.Hum., co-supervisor, who has guided and given hints during the
completion of this thesis
4. All of the lectures of English Department for their guidance and knowledge, I
had obtained during my study
5. The most gratitude is dedicated to my beloved parent Syarifah for her great
love, prayer, and support for me. And my beloved sisters who always support
and pray for me. You are the strength when I am weak
6. All of my friends in English Department, especially Indah Pratiwi and Irma
Yanti who have been my best friends and give me support, motivation during
completion of this thesis
7. Another thanks is dedicated to my beloved friends Marliana Sari Nasution,
Nadia Balqis, Khairina Fitri Arwanda, Fahmi M Adnan Lubis, Amd., Rudi
Firmansyah, S.T., Rahmad Surya, S.T., and my friend in UMSU Rendi
viii Yudha Satria, who has given support and remind me not to be lazy to
accomplish this thesis and I know you always pray for me.
Finally, I do appreciate any recommendations and suggestions to make this
thesis better. Therefore, I cordially welcome any critics and comments. I do hope this
thesis will be useful for those who want to enhance and expand his/her knowledge on
sentence structure.
Medan, 2nd July 2015
Rabiatul Adawiyah
Reg. No. 110705013
ix ABSTRAK
Skripsi yang berjudul “Grammatical Intricacy and Lexical Density in Scientific and Narrative Texts” membahas tentang kerumitan tata bahasa dan kepadatan leksikal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan tingkat kerumitan tata bahasa dan kepadatan leksikal yang terdapat dalam teks ilmiah dan naratif. Teori yang mendukung analisis ini adalah teori yang dikemukakan oleh Eggins (2004) untuk menghitung kerumitan tata bahasa dan Ure dalam To (2013) untuk menghitung tingkat kepadatan leksikal. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Sumber data dalam penelitian ini adalah teks ilmiah berjudul “Transportation Technology” (teks 1) dan “The Impact of Science and Technology Development to the Life of Indonesian People” (teks 2) yang diperoleh dari buku teks bilingual siswa SMA program Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam kelas XII berjudul History ditulis oleh Habib Mustopo dan Agus Suprijono, diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Inggris oleh Eko Marsudiono, dan teks naratif berjudul “Law Kawar” (teks 3) dan “Bawang Merah Bawang Putih” (teks 4) yang diperoleh dari kumpulan cerita rakyat Indonesia berjudul Other Folk Tales from Indonesia ditulis oleh S.D.B. Aman. Data yang digunakan adalah klausa dan kalimat dalam menganalisis tingkat kerumitan tata bahasa, leksikal (lexical items) dan jumlah keseluruhan kata (total words) pada tiap teks dalam menganalisis tingkat kepadatan leksikal. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa kerumitan tata bahasa pada teks 1 = 1.5, teks 2 = 1.5, teks 3 = 2.0, dan teks 4 = 2.1. Kepadatan leksikal pada teks 1 = 49.4%, teks 2 = 50.2%, teks 3 = 41.0% dan teks 4 = 40.8%. Dengan demikian tingkat kerumitan tata bahasa yang tinggi terdapat pada teks naratif karena memiliki lebih banyak jumlah klausa per kalimat sehingga sulit dipahami. Tingkat kepadatan leksikal teks ilmiah lebih tinggi daripada teks naratif karena memiliki lebih banyak jumlah lexical items sebagai perbandingan dari jumlah keseluruhan kata sehingga teks tersebut sulit dibaca.
Kata kunci: kerumitan tata bahasa, kepadatan leksikal, kalimat, klausa, lexical items, total words.
x ABSTRACT
This thesis entitled “Grammatical Intricacy and Lexical Density in Scientific and Narrative Texts” discuss about grammatical intricacy and lexical density. This study aims to describe the level of grammatical intricacy and lexical density in scientific and narrative texts. The theory supported this analysis are theory proposed by Eggins (2004) to find out grammatical intricacy and Ure in To (2013) to find out lexical density. The data source in this study were scientific texts entitled “Transportation Technology” (Text 1) and “The Impact of Science and Technology Development to the Life of Indonesian People” (Text 2) taken from bilingual textbook entitled History written by Habib Mustopo and Agus Suprijono which are translated into English by Eko Marsudiono and used for Grade XII of Science Program of the Senior High school, and narrative texts entitled “Law Kawar” (Text 3) and “Bawang Merah Bawang Putih” (Text 4) taken from Indonesian folktale entitled Other Folk Tales from Indonesia written by S.D.B. Aman. The data of this study were clauses and sentences for grammatical intricacy, lexical items and grammatical words for lexical density. The result of analysis shows that grammatical intricacy of text 1 = 1.5, text 2 = 1.5, text 3 = 2.0, and text 4 = 2.1. Lexical density of text 1 = 49.4%, text 2 = 50.2%, text 3 = 41.0%, and text 4 = 40.8%. Thus, the level of grammatical intricacy of the narrative texts are higher than the scientific texts, so the narrative texts are more difficult to understand due to many clauses per sentence. The level of lexical density of the scientific texts are higher than the narrative texts, so the scientific texts are more difficult to read due to the texts have a high number of lexical items as a proportion of all words.
Key words: grammatical intricacy, lexical density, sentences, clauses, lexical items, total words.
xi TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLRATION ... v
COPYRIGHT DECLRATION ... vi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... vii
2.1. Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL)... 9
2.2. Grammatical Intricacy... 12
2.3. Lexical Density ... 13
2.4. Clause ... 15
2.4.1. Independent Clause ... 15
2.4.2. Dependent Clause ... 16
2.4.3. Clause Complex ... 20
2.5. Sentence ... 21
2.6. Related Studies ... 25
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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD ... 27
3.1. Data Source and Data ... 27
3.2. Technique for Collecting the Data ... 27
3.3. Technique for Analyzing the Data ... 28
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDINGS ... 29
4.1. Analysis ... 29
4.1.1. Grammatical Intricacy ... 29
4.1.2. Lexical Density ... 34
4.2. Findings ... 38
4.2.1. Grammatical Intricacy ... 38
4.2.2. Lexical Density ... 39
CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 40
5.1. Conclusions ... 40
5.2. Suggestions ... 40
REFERENCES ... 42 APPENDICES
xiii LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. Context of situation: casual, brief encounter between two friends in
the street ... 10
Table 2. Context of situation: teacher job interview ... 10
Table 3. Mode: characteristics of spoken and written language situation ... 11
Table 4. Characteristic feature of spoken and written language ... 11
Table 5. Spoken and written language ... 14
Table 6. Subordinate conjunctions ... 16
Table 7. Relative pronouns ... 17
Table 16. Grammatical intricacy among the four texts ... 38
Table 17. Lexical density among the four texts ... 39
xiv LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1. An example of embedding clause ... 19
Figure 2. An example of complex structure ... 24
