AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION FOUND IN THE MAIN ARTICLES IN THE ASIA 360 NEWS MAGAZINE An Analysis Of Cohesion Found In The Main Articles In The Asia 360 News Magazine.

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AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION FOUND IN THE MAIN ARTICLES

IN THE ASIA 360 NEWS MAGAZINE

RESEARCH PAPER

Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for Getting Bachelor Degree of Education

in English Department

Proposed by:

ATMI LESTIANI

A320080303

SCHOOL OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

MUHAMMADIYAH UNIVERSITY OF SURAKARTA

2012

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MOTTO

Don’t say no before trying

(the writer)

Failure is success delayed

(the writer)

“Allah has been promise to faithful people man or woman, (will get) heaven

that under it flow the rivers, they are everlasting in it, and (get) the good place

in ‘Adn heaven. And blessing of Allah is bigger. That is lodly victory.”

(QS. AT-TAUBAH : 72)

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SUMMARY

Atmi Lestiani. A 320 080 303. ANALYSIS OF COHESION FOUND IN THE

MAIN ARTICLES IN THE ASIA 360 NEWS MAGAZINE. Muhammadiyah

University of Surakarta. Research Paper. 2012.

The study is about describing cohesion found in the main articles in the

Asia 360 News Magazine. The objective of this research are to describe the

lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion in the main articles in the Asia 360

News Magazine.

This research is a descriptive qualitative study which analyzes the

elements of cohesions of the main articles. The data are sentences which include

the lexiical and grammatical cohesions found on the main article in the Asia News

360 Magazine. The researcher collects the data by reading the articles, coding,

making list on lexical and grammatical cohesion in the articles, and describing the

lexical and grammatical cohesions toward Main Articles in the Asia News 360

Magazine based on Halliday and Hasan’s theory.

The result shows that the cohesive devices in the Main Articlesinclude the

grammatical and lexical cohesions. The grammatical cohesions consists of

reference: (1) personal reference 27,39% and demonstrative reference 4,56%, (2)

conjunction; coordinating conjunction 24,56%, subordinating conjunction 21,74%

and correlation conjunction 0,22%, (3) Ellipsis 6,52% and (4) substitution 3,26%

while the lexical cohesions consists of (1) Repetition 8,26%, antonym 0,87%,

synonym 2,39%, and hyponym 0,22%. In the articles, the use of grammatical

cohesions are higher than the lexical cohesions.

Keywords: grammatical cohesion, lexical cohesion and Main articles in the Asia

360 News Magazine.

First Consultant

Dra. Malikatul Laila, M.hum

NIK. 409

Second Consultant

Dra. Dwi Haryanti, M.hum

NIK. 477

Dean,

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DEDICATION

With love the research is dedicated to:

The Greatest Ones in the world Allah SWT and his Prophet

Muhammad SAW

My beloved Mother and Father for their prayer, advice, support, love

and help

My beloved Brother, Sisters and Nephew

My beloved Soulmate, for his love, support and prayer

My beloved friends

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb

Alhamdulilah hirobbil’alamin

, Praise and Gratitude to the Most Gracious and

Most Merciful, Allah SWT for blessing the researcher in perfoming this research

paper, under the title of

“An Analysis of Cohesion Found on the Main Articles

in the Asia 360 News Magazines”.

This is the one of the requirements for getting

the bachelor degree in English Department of Muhammadiyah University of

Surakarta.

Besides, the writer would like to express his deepest gratitude to the

people who have ever in getting through this research paper by their support,

advices and even criticsm they are:

1.

Drs. H. Sofyan Anif, M. Si, the Dean of the School of Teacher Training and

Education of Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta,

2.

Titis Setyabudi S.S, M.Hum, the Head of English Department of School of

Teacher Training and Education and the academic of advisor of class H who

has given advice and share more four years,

3.

Dra. Malikatul Laila, M. Hum, the first consultant who patiently has given

him a very helpful guidance, a greatest spare time to give advice in

completing this research paper,

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Dra. Dwi Haryanti, M. Hum, the second consultant research paper and person

who has examined her research carefully and gives her motivation in creating

her research,

5.

All lectures in English Department who have shared and given their

knowledge to the writer in mastering English,

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All of Librarians in Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta for giving

permissions and privilige to obtain the required references.

7.

Her beloved mother

“Lasinem”

and father

“Sumino”

for support, advice,

attention, spirit, praying, care and great love, love them so much,

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Her old brother

“Angga Lesmana”

and his little family (

”Dewi Wuridha

and my beloved nephew

“Yudhistira Fitra Alamsyah”)

and her young

brother

“Gatra Pamungkas”

for love, attention, happiness and support,

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Her beloved soulmate

“Muhamad Sidiq”

for love, attention, care, time,

support and spirit to finish this research paper, thanks you so much,

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Her beloved friends

“Diana, Yeny,

and

Asta”

for attention, support, praying

and spirit,

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Her friends

“Kost Anugrah” (Eny, Syepa, Gendhis, Rossi, Retno,

and

all

that can’t be mentioned one by one),

for attention, support, praying and

happiness more four years,

12.

Her friends

“ The Koplagh”

(

Ida Octa, Tikha Cebonk, Lilia Asmoluty,

Amaa Aqueena and Ndug Neena Karlina)

for happiness, support, care, and

praying, the koplagh is the best guys,

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Her friends and all that love me and I love them that can’t be mentioned one

by one, thanks all.

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Finally, her beloved readers.

Wassalamualaikum wr. wb

Surakarta, October

2012

The writer

ATMI LESTIANI

A 320 080 303

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DAFTAR ISI

COVER... i

APPROVAL ... ii

ACCEPTANCE ... iii

SUMMARY ... iv

TESTIMONY ... v

MOTTO ... vi

DEDICATION ... vii

ACKNOWLEDGMENT ... ix

TABLE OF CONTENT ... xii

LIST OF TABLE ... xviii

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

A.

Background of the Study ... 1

B.

Previous Study ... 5

C.

Limitation of the Study ... 6

D.

Problem Statement ... 6

E.

Objective of the Study ... 6

F.

Benefit of the Study... .. 7

G.

Research Paper Organization ... 8

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CHAPTER II UNDERLYING THEORY

A.

Notion of Text ... 9

B.

Notion of Discourse ... 10

C.

Type of Discourse ... 10

1.

Based on the form used in communication ... 10

a. Written discourse ... 10

b.

Spoken discourse ... 11

2.

Based on the participants in communication ... 12

a.

Monologue ... 12

b.

Dialogue ... 12

c.

Pollilogue ... 12

3. Based on the purpose of communication ... 13

a.

Descriptive Text ... 13

b.

Exposition Text ... 14

c.

Argumentative Text ... 14

d.

Persuasion Text ... 15

e.

Narrative Text... ... 16

D.

Discourse Analysis ... 17

E.

Cohesion... 18

a.

Definition of Cohesion ... 18

b.

Type of Cohesion... . 18

1)

Grammatical Cohesion... 18

a)

Reference... 18

(1)

Personal Reference... 19

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(2)

Demonstrative Reference... 19

(3)

Comparative Reference... 19

b)

Substitution... 19

(1)

Nominal Substitution... ... 20

(2)

Verbal Substitution... 20

(3)

Clausal Substitution... 20

c)

Ellipsis... 20

(1)

Nominal Ellipsis... 20

(2)

Verbal Ellipsis... 21

(3)

Clausal Ellipsis... 21

d)

Conjunction... 21

(1)

Coordinating Conjunction... 21

(2)

Subordinating Conjunction... 22

(3)

Correlative conjunction... 22

2)

Lexical Cohesion... 23

a)

Reiteration... 23

(1)

Repetition... . 23

(2)

Synonymy ... 23

(3)

Hyponymy... .... 24

(4)

Metonymy... ... 24

(5)

Antonymy... ... 24

b)

Collocation... 24

CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A.

Typof Research ... 26

B.

Object of Research ... 26

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C.

Data and Data Source ... 26

D.

Technique for Collecting Data ... 27

E.

Technique for Analyzing Data ... 27

CHAPTER IV RESEARCH FINDING AND DISCUSSION

A.

Research Finding ... 28

1.

Grammatical Cohesion

Data 1

1)

Reference ... 28

a)

Personal Reference ... 29

b)

Demonstrative Reference ... 31

2)

Conjunction ... 32

a)

Coordinating Conjunction ... 32

b)

Subordinating Conjunction ... 34

3)

Ellipsis... 36

4)

Substitution ... 37

Data 2

1)

Reference ... 38

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 41

a)

b)

3)

Ellipsis... 45

4)

Substitution ... 46

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Data 3

1)

Reference ... 47

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 50

a)

b)

3)

Ellipsis... 52

4)

Substitution ... 54

Data 4

1)

Reference ... 54

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 57

a)

b)

3)

Ellipsis... 61

4)

Substitution ... 62

Data 5

1)

Reference ... 63

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 67

a)

b)

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3)

Ellipsis... 72

4)

Substitution ... 73

Data 6

1)

Reference ... 76

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 77

a)

b)

3)

Ellipsis... 81

4)

Substitution ... 82

Data 7

1)

Reference ... 83

a)

b)

2)

Conjunction ... 86

a)

b)

c)

Correlation Conjunction ... 89

3) Substitution ... 91

2. Lexical Cohesion

Data 1

1)

Repetition ... 92

2)

Synonym ... 94

3)

Hyponym ... 95

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Data 2

1)

Repetition ... 96

2)

Antonym ... 97

Data 3

1)

Repetition ... 98

2)

Synonym ... 99

Data 4

1)

Repetition ... 100

2)

Synonym ... 103

Data 5

1)

Repetition ... 105

2)

Synonym ... 106

3)

Antonym ... 107

Data 6

1)

Repetition ... 108

2)

Antonym ... 110

Data 7

1)

Repetition ... 111

2)

Antonym ... 113

B.

Discussion ... 114

CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION

A.

Conclusion ... 124

B.

Suggestion ... 125

BIBLIOGRAPHY ... 127

APPENDIX ... 128

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LIST OF THE TABLE

A. Research Finding

1. Grammatical Cohesion

Data

1

Table 1. 1 ... 32

Table 1. 2 ... 35

Table 1. 3 ... 37

Table 1. 4 ... 37

Data

2

Table 2. 1 ... 41

Table 2. 2 ... 44

Table 2. 3 ... 46

Table 2. 4 ... 46

Data

3

Table 3. 1 ... 49

Table 3. 2 ... 52

Table 3. 3 ... 53

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Table 3. 4 ... 54

Data

4

Table 4. 1 ... 56

Table 4. 2 ... 60

Table 4. 3 ... 62

Table 4. 4 ... 63

Data

5

Table 5. 1 ... 66

Table 5. 2 ... 71

Table 5. 3 ... 73

Table 5. 4 ... 74

Data

6

Table 6. 1 ... 77

Table 6. 2 ... 80

Table 6. 3 ... 82

Table 6. 4 ... 82

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Data 7

Table 7. 1 ... 86

Table 7. 2 ... 90

Table 7. 3 ... 91

2.

Lexical Cohesion

Table 1 ... 95

Table 2 ... 97

Table 3 ... 100

Table 4 ... 104

Table 5 ... 107

Table 6 ... 110

Table 7 ... 114

B.

Discussion

Table 4. 1 ... 115

Table 4. 2 ... 119

Table 4. 3 ... 122

Table 4. 4 ... 123