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The Implications of ideational metaphors on grammatical intricacy and lexical density in engineering texts: a systemic functional linguistics : laporan akhir penelitian
Authors of scientific texts might be unfamiliar with the terms of ideational metaphors in their writing which are actually one of main features of scientific discourse. Therefore, the aims of this study are to investigate the types of ideational metaphor used in scientific texts as well as its implications on grammatical intricacy (GI) and lexical density (LD). The data are limited to the scientific articles published on International Journal of Scientific and Technology Research (USTR) Volume 10- Issue 5, May 2021 Edition. This journal aims to promote the theory and practice of sciences, technology, innovation, engineering and management. A qualitative descriptive methodology is applied to this study. In analyzing the data, there are two grand theories used; Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics (1985) to analyze the ideational metaphors and LD & Gl formula proposed by Gerot, Linda, and Wignel (1995). An electronic based is also applied to count number of words and clauses containing in the discourse chosen which can be downloaded from http://www.usingenglish.com/resources/. This study found that ideational metaphor impacted the dense information conveyed through nominalization and condensed complex clauses. Lexical density is also because of the condensation of complex sentences to simplex sentence in forms of reduced clauses and prepositional phrases. Based on electronic-based analysis, lexical density of the three articles is above 36,75%, 49.48 & and 40,51%. Grammatical intricacy is quite low with 1.29, 1.31, and 1,24. This study is expected to be beneficial to lecturers and writers to consider applying ideational metaphors in their academic writing and to English teachers and lecturers to (re)consider the LD and GI of textbooks readibility for students.
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