Cohesion Analysis of Politic News Texts in The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe
| Main Author: | Rizulmi |
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| Format: | Bachelors |
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Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta
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Daftar Isi:
- This research is aimed to find out and elaborate the functions of grammatical and lexical cohesion that occur in The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe?s articles. Moreover, the writer also shows the differences in the degree of cohesiveness between The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe?s articles. The data are collected from The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe on April 10 & 11, 2015. The writer applies descriptive qualitative method. He uses Halliday and Hasan?s theory of cohesion to explain the grammatical and lexical cohesion devices that are occurred in the articles. Furthermore, he compares the degree of cohesiveness between the article of The Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe by using Scinto?s Formula. The result of this research shows that the grammatical cohesion occurred in the both articles are references and conjunctions, while the lexical cohesions which occur in The Jakarta Post?s article are repetitions, synonyms, superordinates, and collocation. Meanwhile, the lexical cohesions that occur in Jakarta Globe?s article are repetitions, synonyms, and superordinates. Then, the function of grammatical and lexical cohesion is to maintain the sentences of a text in order to keep related each other by substantively, so that the cohesiveness of the text is preserved. Additionally, the difference between the two articles is that the article of The Jakarta Post is more cohesive than Jakarta Globe?s article