Comparison of Clauses and Taxis Types of the Fragments of the War of the Worldviews: Science versus Spirituality Book

Amelia, Rosa (2023) Comparison of Clauses and Taxis Types of the Fragments of the War of the Worldviews: Science versus Spirituality Book. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This study analyses the uses of clause simplexes and clause complexes (parataxis, hypotaxis and combination of both) of the fragments of the War of the Worldviews: Science versus Spirituality book on the topic What is Nature of Time?. This study used a qualitative approach. The data was collected by taking a random sample after reading the book Science versus Spirituality’s closely. The chapter of the book What Is Nature of Time? was chosen as the data. The texts were written by two authors with different perspectives. The Halliday and Matthiessen’s (2014) theory was used to analyze the data. Based on the data analysis, the most dominant clause in the text What Is Nature of Time? by Mlodinov is combined taxis. The combined taxis occurs 42 times, hypotaxis is 18 times, parataxis is 15 times, and clause simplex is 7 times out of 82 total clauses. While the most dominant clause in Chopra’s text is hypotaxis. Hypotaxis occurs 36 times, combined taxis is 28 times, clause simplexes is 26 times and parataxis is 21 times out of 111 total clauses. After observing the differences of clause composition in the two texts, this departs from the natural assumption that clause simplexes and paratactic clauses are easier to process or understand than hypotactic and combined complex clauses. Mlodinov's text consists of 51% combined clause complexes, higher than Chopra's text (25%) in terms of percentage. Although the total number in hypotactic clauses is lower in Text 1 than in Text 2, their percentage is slightly different. Naturally, the difference of clause compositions between the two texts leads to the finding that Text 2 appears easier to understand than Text 1.

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