A STUDY OF COHESIVE DEVICES ON THE NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE NEWSPAPER ABOUT PRABOWO SUBIANTO

Main Author: AMALIA WULANSARI CITRA ANDARI, 121211233058
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2017
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Online Access: http://repository.unair.ac.id/60117/1/ABSTRACT.pdf
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  • News is an important aspect of newspaper. The author has to consider the language they use since it is important to help them to connect the words, sentences and paragraphs in news articles. This study examined cohesive devices used in an article of The New York Times Online Newspaper titled “Indonesia Candidate Tied to Human Rights Abuses Stirs Unease” published on March 23rd 2014. The theory used in this study is the theory of types of cohesive devices, proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Renkema (2004), especially for lexical cohesion. The data of this study was collected by downloading the article from The New York Times website www.nytimes.comon September 15th, 2015 at 4:32 p.m. The results of this study are (1) grammatical cohesion used in the article are reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunctions (2) lexical cohesion used in the article is reiteration (3) the cohesive device that is mostly used in the article is demonstrative reference.Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that grammatical cohesion is more often used than lexical cohesion in the article.