LOGICO-SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN MENDEZ’ UTTERANCES IN ARGO *Dina Febriana * Immanuel Prasetya Gintings, S.S., M.Hum. * Tiarnita M.S.Siregar, S.Pd., M.Hum ABSTRACT The study deals with the types of logico-semantic relations in Mendez’utterances in Argo. The objective of the study are to describe the types of logico semantic relations used in Mendez’ utterances and expalain how logico-semantic relations (unmarked and marked) used in Mendez’ utterances. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative. The data of the study were clause complexes found in Mendez’ utterances. There were 63 clause complexes found. Based on the analysis, it was found that only seven of ten types of logico-semantic relations were used in Mendez’ utterances. The logico-semantic relation type which dominantly occurs in Mendez’ utterances is unmarked enhancement (24 utterances, 38.09%). Then it’s followed unmarked extension (17 utterances, 26.98%), unmarked elaboration (11 utterances, 17.46%), marked enhancement (5 utterances,7.93%), marked locution ( 3 utterances, 4.76%), unmarked locution (2 utterances 3.17%), marked ectension (1 utterance, 1.58%). Meanwhile marked elaboration, unmarked idea and marked idea were not found in Mendez’utterances. Keywords : Logico-semantic relations, utterances INTRODUCTION When people speak or write, they produce a language. As a social being, language is needed to interact with other people. People will get difficulty if they don’t use language to interact because they cannot comunicate or deliver their thoughts and feelings without language. Language is such a need for human being in daily life. The important things for people in using language are to talk about their experience, to describe events and state the entities involved in them to influence their behaviour and to express their own viewpoint and things in their messages. Comunication is divided into spoken and written. When people speak or write they express what they have in their mind. While presenting ideas, people should concern with the way language which is used because it will make their ideas understandable. In the use of language people in many casees tend to expand their ideas by combining or complexing the original clause to other related clause because there are some ideas in the language user’s mind that they are going to share. In communication speaker or writer needs to the connectiion which is made between one clause with another. Film is the one of literary works. Nowadays people love watching films. This phenomenon can be seen from the number of people coming to the cinema. This 1