Expansion Clauses Application in Pan Balang Tamak Text

Abstract

Pan Balang Tamak text is one of famous Balinese texts in Balinese
community. However, the popularity of the text has declined since
more than years ago especially in the youth. This is because of more
interesting and modern entertainment. This phenomenon made the
stakeholders feel worried because it led it to get extinct therefore, the
stake holders anticipated it. One of the efforts to prevent from the
extinct was to write Pan Balang Tamak text. The text was written in
some version with their own styles. However, the essence of all
variances is similar. The text belongs to be narrative text therefore it
needs more abstract comprehension to find the character of the figures,
message and ideology of the text. Most of the communities
comprehended the text from literal point of view. This was the reason
why the text was viewed to have different interpretation about the
characters of the text. Besides that, the clauses within the complexes
were not comprehended well based on the functions in the clauses
complexes. To find the characteristic of the figures of the text,
expansion clause becomes prime concern. This paper analyzed the
clause functions within the expansion clauses. The data were taken
from Satua satua Bali Pan Balang Tamak (2014). The theory used to
analyze the data was the theory of clause complex proposed by
Halliday. The method hired for this research was library research by
syntactical technique. The finding of the research suggested that all
kinds of expansion clause be hired in the text such as: elaboration,
extension and enhancement. Enhancement clauses were found in the
most varieties. Elaboration and expansion in paratactic clauses
indicated that Pan Balang Tamak did something different from others
did while enhancement clauses in hypotactic indicated that Pan Balang
Tamak became target.