The Logico-Semantic of Clause Complexes in the VOA News

Abstract

News are read by some people in their everyday life since it gives information and organize information in term of the text in the News English texts. The language of news text may contain clause complexes that arise because use of technical term that may cause confusion among their readers.Logico semantic relation is the way in which clauses either independent or dependent build on the meaning of the clauses that are related. It means that to realize the meaning in a clause complexes, we need logico-semantic relation. Therefore, this research deals with logico-semantic relation of clause complexes in the VOA news.The objectives of this research were to identify the types of logico-semantic of clause complexes and how logico-semantic realized in the VOA news. This research was conducted by using qualitative research method.The data of this research were logico-semantic of clause complexes found in the VOA news. There were 58 clause complexes as the sample. Based on the analysis, it was found that twotypes of logico-semantic were used in the VOA news. The most occurrence type of logico-semantic was projection 33 data or 56.90% and then followed by expansion 25 data or 43.10%. This research was concluded that in VOA news dominant used projection.