LOGICAL MEANINGS IN ITERNET HELP MENU TEXTS

This study deals with logical meanings in Internet help menu texts. Three problems are addressed in this study, namely the inquiry on types of logical meanings internet helpmenu texts, investigation on dominant types of logical meanings, and explanation on the occurrences of type. The data were obtained from ten parts of instructions in help menu in internet explorer, namely The Web Pages You Want, Browsing the Web You Want,Printing and Saving Information, Sending the Information over the Internet, Understanding Security and the Privacy on the Internet, Internets Explorer InformationBar, Managing Web Browser Adds on, Controlling Access to Inappropriate Internet Content, Customizing Your Web Browser. The texts were analyzed by applying Systemic Functional Linguistics theory. The occurrences of logical meanings were qualitatively analyzed by converting them into percentage to determine proportions namely (1) Paratactic elaboration, (2), Paratactic Enhancement, (3) Paratactic Extension , (4) 1111Paratactic Locution, (5) Paratactic Idea, (6) Hypotactic Elaboration, (7) Hypotactic Extension (8) Hypotactic Enhancement, (9) Hypotactic Locution. (10) Hypotactic Idea.Of ten categories of logical meanings, hypotactic elaboration dominantly occurs ininternet help menu texts with the proportion of more than one third (38.04%) of the totaloccurring of logical meanings. The reason for the dominant occurrence of hypotacticelaboration is the writer or the Microsoft company functions to elaborate or to give detailinformation to the readers. This is required the social context of Internet Help Menu Text,experience, which is elaborate in another linguistic representation.particularly in the situation where the company firstly represents reality in linguistics