How Clause Relationships in Narrative Relieve Children from the Covid-19 Crisis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34010/icobest.v4i.403Keywords:
Children, Covid-19, Narrative RelieveAbstract
This study aims to discover how a clause-complex system supports information delivery in a children’s narrative story. It emphasizes interdependence and semantic-logico relations. This study debates how clause relationships can help children, whose lives are being impacted by covid-19 pandemic, maintaining their mental health and their language and communication skills while reading. Using the descriptive qualitative method, data from a closed reading were extracted and classified into complex-clause taxis based on Halliday and Matthiessen’s theory. The semantic-logico was described, showing how the narrative plot was systematically structured to create an imaginative world. The results show that Anderson’s The Little Match Girl creates its fictional world using 25 complex clauses in interdependence relationships. There are 15 parataxis and 10 hypotaxis. The parataxis clauses depict three types of logico-semantic relations: 12 enhancements, 1 elaboration, and 2 extensions, whereas the hypotaxis clauses describe two types: 8 enhancements and 2 extensions. The findings indicates that these clause-complex relationships drive the narrative flow of events in the fictional world; the narrative clauses play as persuasive tools that bring children to imagination. The implication of this study is that imaginations from the fictional world help children cope with the covid-19 crisis while also maintaining their mental health and their language and communication skills.