THE MEDIA VIEWPOINT ON THE ISSUE OF THE
RESIGNATION OF SOUTH KOREA’S PRIME MINISTER IN
THE KOREA HERALD AND IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By
AGUSTINA RIZKY LUPITASARI
Student Number: 104214090
ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS
FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY
THE MEDIA VIEWPOINT ON THE ISSUE OF THE
RESIGNATION OF SOUTH KOREA’S PRIME MINISTER IN
THE KOREA HERALD AND IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By
AGUSTINA RIZKY LUPITASARI
Student Number: 104214090
ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS
FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY
Everything you can
imagine is real
Picasso-Nothing can be so precious than the
Almighty God, the family, the loveable
partner, and good friends.
So I dedicate this thesis to all of them.
And you,
ACKNOWLDGEMENTS
My greatest gratitude goes to the Lord for always guiding me to finish this
thesis. Now I finally learn that everything will be beautiful at its time. God’s timing is
always perfect.
I would like to thank my family, my mother, my two kind-hearted fathers, and
my lovely sister. I especially thank my beloved mother, Hanavia Rini who is always
there whenever I need shoulder to lean on. I also thank her for her prayers in every
single night and also her endless care for me.
Then, I would thank my thesis advisor, Adventina Putranti, SS., M. Hum., my
co-advisor Anna Fitriati, S.Pd. M.Hum., and my examiner Dr. F. B. Alip, M.Pd.,
M.A. for giving me so many useful suggestions in order to make this thesis better. I
also thank them for their patience in guiding me to finish this thesis.
I would also thank my beloved friends, Fanny Herdioktavi, Ni Kadek Septi
Ratnasari, Graviela Jessica, Vania Williany, Shela Gandhiningtyas, Nyke Emitusia,
Dea Kaloka, Radiaska, Sisilia Dyah Ayu, Cory Adriani, Cynthia Rani, Pramestia,
Gracia Atika, Rosadelima and many other friends who cannot be mentioned one by
one. I thank them for supporting me through their care and wise advices.
Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude for the one who always
pushes me to work harder, Mizan Tegar Aditya. I thank him for making me
understand that success is surely not for the lazy ones.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ………. ii
APPROVAL PAGE……… iii
ACCEPTANCE PAGE……….. iv
LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH... v
STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY………. vi
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE………. 5
A. Review of Related Studies……….. 5
b. Theory of Grammatical Cohesion……….. 11
2. Data Analysis……….... 22
CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS………. 24
A. The Cohesion in The Korea Herald and The New York Times in Order to Convey the Context of the Resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister.. 24
1. The Cohesion of the text from The Korea Herald entitled ―Prime Minister Quits over Ferry Disaster‖ ……… 25
a. The Arrangement of the Subtopics……… 25
i. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation……….. 26
ii. The Prime Minister’s statements on his resignation …………. 26
iii. The governmental issue related to the resignation ……… 27
iv. The Prime Minister’s comment on the issue of some irregularities related to the ferry disaster ……… 27
v. The opinion about the resignation of the Prime Minister ……. 27
vi. The description about the sinking of the ferry ……….. 28
vii. The critics toward the government about their bad response to the ferry sinking ……….. 28
2. The Cohesion of the text from The New York Timesentitled ―South Korean Prime Minister Offers to Resign over the Deadly Ferry Disaster‖ ……… 35
a. The Arrangement of the Subtopics……….. 35
i. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation ……… 35
ii. The critics toward the government about their bad response to the disaster ……….. 36
iii. The Prime Minister’s statements on his resignation …………. 36
iv. The irregularities on the operator of the ship which cause high death toll ………... 36
v. The governmental issue related to the resignation of the Prime Minister ………. 37
vii. The grief of the nation due to the disaster ……… 37
b. Lexical Cohesion……….. 37
i. Reiteration ………. 37
ii. Collocation ……… 39
c. Grammatical Cohesion……….. 42
i. Reference ……….. 42
ii. Substitution ………... 43
iii. Ellipsis ……….. 43
iv. Conjunction ……….. 43
B. The Media Viewpoint on the Issue of the Resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister……… 44
1. The urgency of the resignation of the Prime Minister ………. 45
2. The cultural practice within the government of South Korea ……….. 46
3. The description of the condition of the people after the disaster happened……… 47
4. The irregularities on the operator of the ferry which is related to the disaster ……….. 49
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION………. 50
BIBLIOGRAPHY……….. 53
APPENDICES……… 54
Appendix 1: The News Article of The Korea Herald Entitled ―Prime Minister Quits over Ferry Disaster‖……….. 54
ABSTRACT
LUPITASARI, AGUSTINA RIZKY. The Media Viewpoint on the Issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister in The Korea Herald and in The New York Times. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters,
Sanata Dharma University, 2015.
Mass media have their own viewpoint toward a certain issue. The viewpoint of one newspaper can be different from the viewpoint of other newspapers depending on how they are linguistically presented. The linguistic aspect can be the lexical choice, grammar or textual organization. This study is conducted to analyze the
media viewpoints toward the issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister
in The Korea Herald and in The New York Times through their linguistic presentation. This study focuses on the textual organization and the cohesion of a text.
There are two problems formulated in this study. The first problem is focused to analyze how each newspaper builds their cohesion in conveying the context of the
resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister. The second problem is focused to
analyze the media viewpoint on the issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime
Minister through the cohesion of the text and their textual organization.
This study uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) because this study concerns with how the lexical choice in the news article can show how the language is ideological that it contains certain viewpoints in the context of South Korea’s Prime Minister’s resignation due to the government’s bad handling on the ferry disaster. This study studied an event in depth by comparing two articles that were different in certain ways but had same topic. The two articles are taken from the media inside Korea and outside Korea in order to understand how this issue is presented inside Korea and outside Korea.
ABSTRAK
LUPITASARI, AGUSTINA RIZKY. The Media Viewpoint on the Issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister in The Korea Herald and in The New York Times, Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 2015.
Media massa mempunyai sudut pandang masing masing terhadap suatu berita. Sudut pandang sebuah surat kabar terhadap sebuah berita dapat berbeda satu sama lain tergantung dari bagaimana mereka mempresentasikannya secara linguistik. Aspek aspek linguistik tersebut antara lain pilihan kata, tata bahasa, dan organisasi tekstual. Studi ini dilakukan untuk menganalisis sudut pandang media terhadap berita tentang mundurnya Perdana Menteri Korea Selatan dalam surat kabar The Korea Herald dan The New York Times melalui presentasi linguistik masing masing surat kabar. Studi ini fokus pada organisasi tekstual dan kohesi sebuah teks.
Dalam studi ini terdapat dua rumusan masalah. Rumusan masalah pertama fokus untuk menganalisis bagaimana masing masing surat kabar membentuk kohesi mereka dalam menyampaikan konteks tentang mundurnya Perdana Menteri Korea Selatan. Rumusan masalah kedua fokus untuk menganalisis sudut pandang media terhadap issue tersebut melalui kohesi teks dan organisasi tekstual mereka.
Studi ini menggunakan pendekatan Citical Discourse Analysis (CDA) karena studi ini fokus tentang bagaimana pemilihan kata dalam sebuat artikel dalam surat kabar dapat memperlihatkan bahwa bahasa itu ideologis dengan mengandung sudut pandang tertentu terhadap isu mundurnya perdana menteri Korea Selatan akibat buruknya penanganan tenggelamnya kapal feri. Studi ini mempelajari tentang sebuah peristiwa secara mendalam dengan cara membandingkan dua artikel yang berbeda dalam beberapa hal namun memiliki topic yang sama. Kedua artikel diambil dari media massa di dalam Korea Selatan dan di luar Korea Selatan dalam rangka untuk memahami bagaimana berita ini disajikan di dalam dan di luar Korea Selatan.
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.Background of Study
As social beings, people cannot live without communicating with others
which is through language. As George A. Miller says, ―Social organization without
communication is impossible. The influence of a group can extend only as far as the
group has effective channels for communication.‖ (1951: 249) In order to
communicate with others, people need language as the media of it. This is where
language takes its role over the relation among human being. As the media of
communication, language becomes the main aspect that shall exist in order to
communicate.
Language is used in daily life both verbally, like when we talk to be heard by
others, and non-verbally, like when we write something to be read by others. Through
the use of language, language functions as the media to deliver any kinds of message
or information.
One kind of information that is delivered through language is news.
According to Henry Compton B. A, the definition of news is,
―What is ―news‖? It is the new things that have happened recently--the things that have made the world different from what it was yesterday. Not the things that happened centuries ago, or even last year. They are now history. Not the things that happen every day. The sunrise is the most important and wonderful happening of all, but it is not news. (If the sun did not rise one morning, that
The language of the news is different from the other kinds of written
language, especially in the choice of words. According to Fowler, narrators, speech
and thought presentation, the transitivity system of the language, the modality system,
the lexical choices or pragmatics all contribute in one way or another to reveal
different aspects of the ―angle of telling‖ in a text. (Sierra, 1994: 94) From that
quotation, we can conclude that ―the angle of telling‖ in a text can be determined by
its use of language especially in the aspect of lexical choices.
This undergraduate thesis examines the lexical choices used by two news
articles in order to present their viewpoints from about the issue of the resignation of
South Korea’s Prime Minister due to the sinking of a ferry which carries almost 400
students on a trip
The topic of how different lexical choices can show different viewpoint on the
same issue is chosen because nowadays, lexical choices in the language of newspaper
is such a strong power. Just like what Sierra quoted from Fowler,
―What is being said is that, because the institutions of news reporting, and
presentation are socially, economically, and politically situated, all news is
always reported from some particular angle.‖ (Sierra, 1994: 93)
As we know that the life of the people nowadays cannot be separated from the mass
media, so how mass media show their viewpoint about a certain issue which later can
influence the reader’s mind is interesting and worth studying.
Then, the issue which is brought up in this study is about the resignation of the
South Korea’s Prime Minister after the accident of the sinking of a Ferry which kills
Public opinions about the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister differ from
one to another. That is why I bring this topic out.
The two newspapers being examined are chosen also because of a reason. The
first news article is taken from Korean newspaper, The Korea Herald, and the other
news article is chosen from the newspaper outside Korea, The New York Times. The
two articles are considered the representation on the issue of the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister from the Korean mass media viewpoint and the mass media
viewpoint outside Korea.
B.Problem Formulation
In order to guide and limit the points of discussion, there are two problems
formulated, those are:
1. How do The Korea Herald and The New York Times build the cohesion of their
lexical items in order to convey the context of the resignation of South Korea’s
Prime Minister?
2. What are the viewpoints of The Korea Herald and The New York Times about the
issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister seen through the cohesion
of the lexical items?
C.Objectives of the Study
Based on the two problems formulated before, there are two objectives of this
study. First objective is to examine how The Korea Herald and The New York Times
build the cohesion of the lexical items which convey the context of the resignation of
articles, the writer wants to reveal how both news articles present their ―angle of
telling‖ or their viewpoint about the issue of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime
Minister.
D.Definition of Terms
Media viewpoint is media’s attitude or opinions. In addition to more specific concept of the viewpoint of the media, Sierra quoted what Fowler said in her journal about
point of view of the media discourse,
―What is being said is that, because the institutions of news reporting, and
presentation are socially, economically, and politically situated, all news is
always reported from some particular angle.‖ (Sierra, 1994: 92)
According to Fowler, narrators, speech and thought presentation, the
transitivity system of the language, the modality system, the lexical choices or
pragmatics all contribute in one way or another to reveal different aspects of the
―angle of telling‖ in a text.
So, media viewpoint is the angle of reporting news by the media which is
presented in the aspect of linguistics. It can be from the lexical choices or pragmatics,
speech and thought presentation, or anything else in the aspect of language. In this
study, the aspect of linguistics which is used to reveal the media viewpoint is
cohesion especially the cohesion of lexical items.
Lexical item is a useful and fairly neutral hold-all term which captures and, to some
extent, helps to overcome instabilities in the term word, especially when it becomes
CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This chapter consists of three parts which are reviews of related studies,
reviews of related theories and theoretical framework. Review of related studies
contains the reviews of other related studies previously done by other writers on the
slightly similar topic. Then, review of related theories is review of the theories
applied in this undergraduate thesis, and the last one is theoretical framework. In this
part, the writer explains, one by one, the contribution of the theories and reviews in
solving the problems of the study: why the theories are needed and how they are
applied in the study.
A.Review of Related Studies
1. Rezkiyana’s thesis “The Study of Media Perspective through Reference and Repetition seen in RT News and Reuters in the issue of North Korean Nuclear Edition April 1, 2013
This undergraduate thesis discusses the media perspective about the issue of
North Korean nuclear seen through the reference and repetition. This research focuses
on the analysis of the use of reference and repetition in the publication of North
Korea nuclear issue from two different media; Reuters and RT News. The researcher
took two different articles from on-line newspaper; Reuters and RT News in the
North Korean nuclear issue on April 1, 2013. There are two reasons of choosing the
same issue of North Korea differently. The second reason is that North Korea became
the hot issue around the world because of their surprising statement of nuclear war
against South Korea on March 31, 2013.
While Rezkiyana discusses the issue about North Korean nuclear issue in RT
News and Reuters, this present thesis discusses about the issue of the resignation of
South Korea’s Prime Minister after the accident of the ferry sinking. This present
thesis takes the data as same as Rezkiyana’s thesis, that is from two articles on two
different newspapers but the difference is that Rezkiyana’s articles are about North
Korean Nuclear, while this present thesis is about the resignation of South Korea’s
Prime Minister due to the sinking of Ferry which kills almost 400 passengers. Both
articles are published on April 27 at the day the Prime Minister resigns.
This present thesis develops Rezkiyana’s thesis. The main topic about the
viewpoint of the media discussed by the present writer is slightly similar to the topic
discussed by Rezkiyana in her thesis although the scope of analyzing media
perspective is deeper than the analysis of the media viewpoint.
What makes this present thesis different with Rezkiyana’s thesis is also on the
analysis of the reference and substitution as her base of further analysis about the
media perspective on the issue of North Korean Nuclear while this present thesis
analyzes the viewpoint of media through the cohesion of the lexical items which
2. Estiningsih’s thesis “News Ideology of Suharto’s Fall Event in “After
Suharto” in Newsweekand “End of Era” Article in TimeMagazine”
This undergraduate thesis discusses about the fall of Suharto event seen in two
articles from TIME magazine and NEWSWEEK. The first article entitles ―After
Suharto‖ while the second article entitles ―End of an Era‖. This research tries to seek
the news ideologies brought in those two articles in understanding the fall of Suharto
event in Indonesia, through its representation on the vocabularies choices.
Both of this present thesis and Estiningsih’s thesis analyze the lexical choice
in conveying certain issue. While this present thesis analyzes the cohesion of the
lexical items or vocabulary in conveying the resignation of South Korea’s Prime
Minister, Estiningsih’s thesis analyzes the lexical choices without analyzing its
cohesion in order to convey the fall of Suharto event. This is what makes this present
thesis similar with Estiningsih’s thesis; the analysis of the lexical choices.
Then, the thing that makes this present thesis different with Estiningsih’s
thesis is the further analysis after analyzing the vocabulary choices. The further
analysis of this present thesis is about the viewpoint of media, while further analysis
of Estiningsih’s thesis is the news ideologies.
B.Review of Related Theories 1. Theory of Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis according to James Paul Gee in his book ―How to do
Discourse Analysis‖ is the study of language in use. Better put, it is the study of
Margaret Wetherell explains that discourse is constitutive of social life. Discourse
builds object, worlds, minds and social relations. It does not just reflect them. Words
are about the world but they also form the world as they represent it. What is the case
for humans, what reality is, what the world is, only emerges through human
meaning-making (Wetherell, 2001: 16). By those elaborations, it can be concluded that
discourse analysis concerns with the analysis of how language can do something and
how discourse constitutes social life, and how social life in the world only emerges
through human meaning-making. For example, language can be used to build
reputations, manage social relations among people, or event it can be used to harm
people. All of those things are possible just by language, whose meanings are made
by people to do those kinds of things.
Relating to the human meaning-making through the discourse, it is important
to examine the aspect of cohesion of the discourse itself. Halliday and Hasan stated
that,
Cohesion refers to the range of possibilities that exist for linking something with what has gone before. Since this linking is achieved through the relation of meaning, what is in question is the set of meaning relations which function this way: the semantic resources which are drawn on for the purpose of creating text. We can interpret cohesion, in practice, as the set of semantic resources for linking a sentence with what has gone before (1976: 10)
Cohesion is expressed partly through the grammar and partly through the vocabulary.
We can refer therefore to lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion. Lexical
cohesion deals with reiteration and collocation while grammatical cohesion deals
a. Lexical cohesion i. Reiteration
Reiteration is a form of lexical cohesion which involves the repetition of
lexical item, at one end of the scale; the use of a general word to refer back to a
lexical item, at the other end of the scale; and a number of things in between the use
of synonym, near-synonym, or superordinate (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 278) Let us
illustrate each of these in turn.
a. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; and, when she had looked under it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the
mushroom,…
b. Accordingly… I took leave, and turned to the ascent of the peak. The climb
is perfectly easy…
c. Then quickly rose Sir Bedivere, and ran,
And leaping down the ridges lightly, plung’d
Among the bulrush beds, and clutch’d the sword
And lightly wheel’d and threw it. The great brand Made light’nings in the splendor of the moon
d. Henry’s bought himself a new Jaguar. He practically lives in the car (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 278)
In (a), there is repetition: mushroom refers back to mushroom. In (b) climb refers
back to ascent, of which it is a synonym. In (c) brand refers back to sword, of which it
is a near-synonym. In (d), car refers back to Jaguar; and car is a superordinate of
Jaguar – that is, a name for a more general class (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 278)
All those instances have in common the fact that lexical item refers back to
another, to which it is related by having common referent (Halliday and Hasan,
repetition of the same lexical item but also the occurrence of a related item, which
may be anything from a synonym or near synonym of the original to a general word
dominating the entire class. For example: I turned to the ascent of the peak.
a. The ascent is perfectly easy (same lexical item)
b. The climb is perfectly easy (a synonym) c. The task is perfectly easy (a superordinate)
d. The thing is perfectly easy (a general noun)
(Halliday and Hasan, 1976:278)
ii. Collocation
Collocation is regarded as the most problematical part of lexical cohesion,
cohesion that is achieved through the association of lexical items that regularly
co-occur (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 284). According to Halliday and Hasan, the form of
collocation can be so many, such as:
a. Pairs of synonym- near synonym. For example climb and ascent, beam and rafter, disease and illness.
b. Pairs of superordinates. For example elm and tree, boy and child, skip and play.
c. Pairs of opposites of various kinds, complementaries such as boys and girl, stand up and sit down, antonyms such as like and hate, wet and dry, crowded and deserted, and converses such as order and obey.
d. Pairs of words drawn from the same ordered series. For example dollar and cent, north and south, colonel and brigadier.
e. Pairs drawn from unordered lexical sets. For example basement and roof, road and rail, red and green.
f. Pairs which often stand in some recognizable semantic relation to one another, they may be related as part to whole, like car and brake, box and lid, or as part to part, like mouth and chin, verse and chorus; they may be co-hyponyms of the same superordinate term, ie both members of the same more general class, such as chair table (both hyponyms of furniture), walk and drive (both hyponyms of go).
The cohesive effect is not limited to a pair of words. It is very common for
long cohesive chain to be built up out of lexical relations of this kind, with words
pattern like candle, flame, and flicker, hair, comb, curl, and wave, poetry, literature,
reader, writer, and style, and also sky, sunshine, cloud, and rain. Such patterns occur
freely both within the same sentence and across sentence boundaries; they are largely
independent of grammatical structure (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 286). In brief,
collocation is not limited only by pair of words but it can occur as long cohesive
chains of words which share similar environment.
b. Grammatical cohesion
Grammatical cohesion deals with reference, substitution, ellipsis, and
conjunction. Let us take a look at those forms one by one:
i. Reference
According to Halliday and Hasan, what characterizes this particular type of
cohesion, which we are calling reference, is the specific nature of the information that
is signaled for retrieval. In the case of reference the information to be retrieved is the
referential meaning, the identity of the particular thing or class of things that is being
referred to; and the cohesion lies in the continuity of reference, whereby the same
thing enters into the discourse a second time (1976: 31).
Reference is a semantic relation. Since the relationship is on the semantic
level, the reference item is in no way constrained to match the grammatical class of
the item it refers to (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 32). So, what must be looked
not necessarily have been encoded in the text; they may be retrievable from the
situation.
According to Halliday and Hasan, reference to the situation is the prior form
of reference, and that reference to another within the text is a secondary or derived
from this relation (1976: 32). The meaning of situational reference is a form of
referring to a thing as identified in the context of situation while textual reference is a
form of referring to a thing as identified in the surrounding text.
As a general rule, therefore, reference items may be exophoric or endophoric;
and, if endophoric, they may be anaphoric (referring to preceeding text) or cataphoric
(referring to following text). An exophoric item is one which does not name anything;
it signals that reference must be made to the context of situation.
In its relation to lexical cohesion, all the types of lexical cohesion involve
identity of reference; no matter whether the reiterated item has been a repetition, a
synonym, a superordinate or a general word, it has been assumed to share a common
referent with the original. So, if the lexical item had been reiterated it would have had
the same referent.
ii. Substitution
By contrast to reference, substitution is a grammar relation. Substitution is
subject to a very strong grammatical condition: the substitute must be of the same
grammatical class as the item for which it substitutes. Since substitution is a
grammatical relation, a relation in the wording rather than in the meaning, the
criterion is the grammatical function of the substitute item. According to Halliday and
Hasan, there are three types of substitution. Those are nominal, verbal, and clausal.
The following is a list of the items that occur as substitutes:
Nominal : one, ones, same Verbal : do
Clausal : so, not
(Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 91)
There is a borderline where substitution shades into lexical cohesion,
involving the use of general words such as thing in a cohesive function (Halliday and
Hasan, 1976: 91). The general words, which correspond to major classes of lexical
items, are very commonly used with cohesive force. The substitute one and do can be
thought of as being as it were the highest point in the lexical taxonomy of nouns and
verbs respectively; as such, they constitute a closed class, and so acquire a purely
grammatical function. But they do function more or less as lexical items.
iii.Ellipsis
The next form of grammatical cohesion is ellipsis. Ellipsis is very similar to
substitution. It can be defined simply as „substitution by zero’. The starting point of
the discussion of ellipsis can be the familiar notion that is „something left unsaid’ and
another way of referring to ellipsis is in fact as „something understood’, where
understood is used in special sense of „going without saying’ (Halliday and Hasan,
1976: 142)
Where there is ellipsis, there is a presupposition, in the structure, that
that something which is present in the selection of underlying options is omitted in
the structure-whether or not the resulting structure is in itself „incomplete’ (Halliday
and Hasan, 1976: 144).
In brief, the difference and similarity among the concept of reference,
substitution, and ellipsis is that reference is presupposition at semantic level. A
reference item signals that the meaning is recoverable, though not necessarily be
replaced by what it presupposes; even if the presupposed item is present in the text.
Then, substitution and ellipsis are presupposition at the level of words and structures.
iv.Conjunction
According to Halliday and Hasan, conjunction is rather different in nature
from the other cohesive relations, from both reference, on the one hand, and
substitution and ellipsis on the other (1976: 226). It is not simply an anaphoric
relation.
Conjunctive elements are cohesive not in themselves but indirectly, by virtue
of their specific meanings; they are not primarily devices for reaching out into the
preceding (or following) text, but they express certain meanings which presuppose
the presence of other components in the discourse (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 226).
Later Halliday and Hasan classify conjunction into four types of conjunction. Those
are additive, adversative, causal, and temporal. The distinction of those types can be
For the whole day he climbed up the steep mountainside, almost without stopping.
a. And in all this time he met none. (additive)
b. Yet he was hardly aware of being tired. (adversative) c. So by nighttime the valley was far below him. (causal) d. Then, as dusk fell, he sat down to rest. (temporal) (Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 226).
The additive is generalized semantic relation in text-forming component of the
semantic system, that is based on the logical notion of „and’; and it is one of a small
set of four such relations that are grouped together under the heading of conjunction.
Next, the basic meaning of the adversative relation is „contrary to expectation’. The
expectation may be derived from the content of what is being said, or from the
communication process, or the speaker-hearer process. Under the subtopic of causal
relations are included the specific ones of result, reason, and purpose. These are not
distinguished in the simplest form of expression; so, for example, means „as result of
this’, „for this reason’, and „for this purpose’. The last one is temporal relation. It is
expressed in its simplest form by then.
2. Theory of Semantic Features
In order to elaborate the significant differences between the lexical items which
appear as reiteration or collocation, the analysis of their semantic feature are needed.
The analysis of the semantic feature of a word or lexical items is known as
componential analysis. According to Ruth M. Kempson,
What is meant by components of meaning can be clearly described by the following
example:
The word spinster might be analysed as a semantic complex made up of the features (equivalently called components or markers) [FEMALE], [NEVER MARRIED], [ADULT], [HUMAN] (1997: 18).
3. Theory of Media Viewpoint
Everything that is written in a newspaper has to be transmitted through the
medium of language. The transmission of a message through language almost of
necessity encodes value into the message. Language gathers its own emotional and
cultural „loading’. What this loading is will depend on the nature of the culture or
subculture in which the language exists. For example if a particular culture has little
respect for certain groups, concepts or beliefs, then the language for expressing ideas
about those groups, concepts or beliefs will reflect that attitude. Therefore, when
these things are written about, people reading the text will have their attitudes
reinforced by the way the language presents these things to them. A simple and
obvious way in which language can be used to present specific ideas about a group is
through the choice of words used to name and describe that group. (Reah, 2004: 55)
Language is never objective. Whenever a message is uttered, a number of
implicit choices are made by the speaker which ultimately determines how reality is
linguistically portrayed. Grammar, textual organization or lexical choices, among
Sierra in her journal quotes Fowler:
We choose language according to the circumstances, and those circumstances are ideologically and socially determined. This makes linguistics critical because it assumes that the links amongst people and society are not arbitrary and accidental, but are institutionally determined. (1994: 92)
In addition to more specific concept of the viewpoint of the media, Fowler said:
―What is being said is that, because the institutions of news reporting, and
presentation are socially, economically, and politically situated, all news is
always reported from some particular angle.‖ (1994: 92)
The discourse of the press is probably the clearest example of how objective facts can
be understood in completely different ways depending on how they are linguistically
presented.
According to Fowler, narrators, speech and thought presentation, the transitivity
system of the language, the modality system, the lexical choices all contribute in one
way or another to reveal different aspects of the ―angle of telling‖ in a text. (Sierra,
1994: 92)
C.Theoretical Framework
In order to analyze the data, the writer uses the theories that have been
elaborated before as the tools to answer the two problems formulated in this research.
The first problem formulated in this research about how The Korea Herald and The
New York Times in building the cohesion of the lexical items which convey the
context of the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister is answered using the
theory of Discourse Analysis especially in the aspect of cohesion which includes
the lexical items and identifying the cohesion of the lexical items which convey the
context of resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister. This theory also enables the
writer in describing the cohesion of the lexical items supported by the grammatical
cohesion.
After figuring out the cohesion of the lexical items which covey the context of
the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister, this study goes further into the
analysis of the viewpoint of the media to the issue. In order to answer the second
problem formulation, the theory of semantic feature and the theory of viewpoint of
media are applied. These theories enable the writer to compare each text’s
employment of lexical items by its semantic feature. Then, these theories also enables
the writer to compare each media’s viewpoint on the issue of the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister based on the principles that media always have certain
viewpoint in certain issue which are presented on the language used especially on the
CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
In this chapter, the writer presents the description on the methodology used in
conducting this study in order to have a guidance to do the research systematically.
There are three main parts of this chapter: object of study, approach of the study, and
method of study.
A. Object of the Study
This study deals with the lexical items related to the context of the resignation
of South Korea’s Prime Minister used in two articles from The Korea Herald and The
New York Times. The one from The Korea Herald entitled “Prime Minister Quits
over Ferry Disaster” and the one from The New York Times entitled “South Korean
Prime Minister Offers to Resigns over Deadly Ferry Disaster”. Both articles are taken from the on-line version of the newspapers. ―Prime Minister Quits over Ferry
Disaster‖ in The Korea Herald is written by Yoon Min-sik while ―South Korean
Prime Minister Offers to Resigns over Deadly Ferry Disaster‖ in The New York Times
is written by Choe Sang Hun.
April 16, 2014 may be the day that many Koreans will never forget. Over 300
people died or went missing on the accident of the sinking ferry. Many of them are 16
and 17 years old high school students on a school trip to Jejudo Island from Incheon.
While the chaotic situation was arousing at the moment when the family of the
Minister Chung Hong-Won made a statement to resign from the government. This
kind of situation became highlight to mass media since this moment has
newsworthiness and news value. Both national and International mass media
published this news all together including The Korea Herald as the daily media in
South Korea and The New York Times as the media outside South Korea.
This study focuses on the analysis of the lexical items in the two news-articles
that build the cohesion of each text. Then, after analyzing the cohesion, this study
goes further on the media viewpoint of each news article seen from the cohesion. The
example of the data of this study, in The Korea Herald,
―Witnessing the sorrows of those who lost their loved ones and sadness and
anger of the people, I felt the right thing for me to do was to take all
responsibility as the prime minister.‖
The bold and underlined words in the sentence above are the sample of lexical
items which contribute to the cohesion of the text as a form of reiteration. That is the
sample of the data in this study.
B. Approach of the Study
This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as the approach to be
applied in this study in order to answer the two problems formulated in this research.
According to Ruth Wodak, CDA regards language as social practice and takes
consideration of the context of language use to be crucial. Moreover, CDA takes a
particular interest in the relation between language and ideology (2006: 2). Since this
the language is ideological that it contains certain viewpoints in the context of South
Korea’s Prime Minister’s resignation due to the government’s bad handling on the
ferry disaster, therefore, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is considered relevant in
this research.
C. Method of the Study
In this part, the writer explains the method used in this research, including the
data collection and data analysis. This thesis uses a qualitative method in the analysis
because this study is meant to prove how the analysis of linguistics details, especially
the cohesion of the lexical items can show the viewpoint of the media in the issue of
the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister.
1. Data Collection
The writer took the data from two articles from two on-line newspapers; The
Korea Herald and The New York Times. Since this research aims to know the
viewpoints of the media about the issue that happened in South Korea about the
resignation of its Prime Minister, the data was purposively taken from the media
inside Korea and from outside of Korea. The data of this analysis were in form of
news-article. The steps in collecting the data of this study was first, the writer chose
two news-articles about the resignation of the Prime Minister of South Korea. Then
second, the writer divided every news article into smaller subtopics according to the
flow of the idea. Third, after dividing the news into some parts with each its own
associated one another. Those lexical items were the data which were analyzed later
on the aspect of cohesive force.
2. Data Analysis
There were four steps in conducting this study. The first step was collecting
the data. The data were in form of lexical items. The lexical items were collected
according to their number of repetition and their association with the other lexical
items. These lexical items were taken from the article as chains of cohesive keywords
representing every smaller subtopic of the texts. Each of news articles has 7
subtopics. The 4 subtopics were same between The Korea Herald and The New York
Times and the 3 subtopics of each news articles were different. The 4 similar
subtopics between the two articles were: the offer of Prime Minister’s resignation, the
statements of the Prime Minister on his resignation, the governmental issue related to
the resignation of the Prime Minister, and the criticism toward the government about
their bad response to the disaster.
The second step after collecting the lexical items, the writer analyzed the
cohesion among the lexical item, and then related it with its grammatical cohesion
including reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. Then, the third step after
defining the lexical and grammatical cohesion within the texts, the analysis went
further into comparing the semantic features of the lexical items between The Korea
Herald and The New York Times that were repeated and collocated according to the
each media were built from the comparison of the meaning of each text which was
CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
This chapter is divided into two subchapters. The first subchapter answers the
first problem formulation about how The Korea Herald and The New York Times
build their cohesion in order to convey the context of the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister. Then, the second subchapter answers the second problem
formulation about how the media viewpoints on the issue of the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister are seen through the cohesion of the text.
The first subchapter is divided into two parts, which are the analysis of
cohesion in The Korea Herald and the analysis of cohesion in The New York Times.
Then, every part is divided into three parts which are the analysis on the arrangement
of topics, the lexical cohesion and the grammatical cohesion. The analysis of lexical
cohesion is divided into reiteration and collocation, and then the analysis of the
grammatical cohesion is divided into reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction.
Then, in the second subchapter, the writer reveals the media viewpoint on the issue of
the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister according to the cohesion of the
A.The Cohesion in The Korea Herald and in The New York Times which Convey
the Context of the Resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister
1. The Cohesion of the text from The Korea Herald entitled “Prime Minister
Quits over Ferry Disaster”
The article from The Korea Herald entitled “Prime Minister Quits over Ferry
Disaster” has 7 subtopics which the 4 subtopics are similar to the article from The New York Times, while the rest 3 subtopics are different from The New York Times.
This article maintains its cohesion by using the cohesion forms of reiteration,
collocation, reference, and conjunction. This text does not use the cohesion forms of
substitution and ellipsis.
a. The Arrangement of Subtopics
The order of the topics in news-writing is not merely a placement without
carrying a purpose. According to the theory in news-writing, the topics should flow
from the most important to the less important. Although the topic flows from the
most important to the less important, all of the topics which convey the whole context
give contribution to the cohesion of the text. We cannot say that what is stated in the
last part is not important. It is also important but it is just being less stressed by the
media in order to set the right angle from their perspective.
Another thing that matter is the appearance of particular subtopics. A news
about certain issue can provide some detail information which is different from other
news from the other mass media. This loss and gain is what makes the angle of telling
The New York Times, vice versa because some detail information can carry some
perspective about the issue that is discussed. This matter also can show what points
that each newspaper wants to highlight. The Korea Herald elaborates the context of
the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister into 7 subtopics. The subtopics and
its elaboration are in the following points.
i. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation
This subtopic is in the beginning part of the news article which describes the
offer of the resignation of the Prime Minister. So, according to its placement in the
text, the offer of the resignation of the Prime Minister is the most prominent
information that the readers should catch at their first sight of reading. The
prominence of this topic also reflected on the headline, ―Prime Minister Quits over
Ferry Disaster‖. The headline of the article does not mention ―South-Korea‖ which is
different from The New York Times because this article is an article which is
published inside South Korea, so the people who read this article already share the
same background knowledge about which Prime Minister that resigns.
ii. The Prime Minister’s statements on his resignation.
In this subtopic, this text elaborates about some statements of the Prime
Minister in the moment of his resignation. In his resignation, the Prime Minister
stated his apology to the people. He apologized for a series of problem that the
government did due to the disaster of the ferry sinking. What he apologized for
includes the preventive steps, the initial response, and the follow-up measures.
resign. He stated that his decision to resign was the right thing to do for he had
witnessed the sorrows, sadness, and anger of the people which were caused by his
bad handling at the disaster.
iii.The governmental issue related to the resignation.
After elaborating the statements of the Prime Minister in his moment of
resignation, the text continues to elaborate about the governmental issue related to the
resignation. The resignation of the Prime Minister causes some changes in the
government. The Prime Minister’s resignation caused a cabinet reshuffle but it
seemed that the cabinet reshuffle would be delayed because the offer of the
resignation would be accepted by the President after the accident was resolved.
iv.The Prime Minister’s comment on the issue of some irregularities related to the ferry disaster.
This subtopic only appears on The Korea Herald. The Korea Herald includes
this subtopic in the news article while The New York Times only mentions about the
irregularities without adding the comment of the Prime Minister on it. In this
subtopic, The Korea Herald shows the response of the Prime Minister about the
irregularities in the disaster not just merely describes the irregularities that
contributed to the disaster like in The New York Times
v. The opinion about the resignation of the Prime Minister.
After elaborating about the Prime Minister’s comment on the issue of some
irregularities related to the ferry disaster, The Korea Herald continues to elaborate the
from the public but also from the main opposition of the government. Mostly, the
opinions about the resignation of the Prime Minister are negative. The main
opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy blasted the Prime Minister’s offer to
resign as utterly irresponsible and cowardly while the public called it as abrupt.
vi.The description about the sinking of the ferry.
In this subtopic, The Korea Herald gives the details about the sinking of the
ferry including the weight of the ferry, the route of the ferry, the total numbers of the
passenger and the numbers of the passenger which were sunk.
vii. The critics toward the government about their bad response to the ferry sinking.
The Korea Herald elaborates the critics toward the government about their
bad response to the ferry sinking as terrible. The bad response of the government
toward the ferry sinking can be seen from what they had done. The government
mistook the situation by giving false report which claimed all passengers had been
safely rescued. The government also failed to act promptly or put enough efforts into
search and rescue operation especially when the pan-government headed by the Prime
Minister was formed more than a day after the accident. Another bad response from
the government can be seen on their inconsistent report about the official numbers on
b. Lexical Cohesion i. Reiteration
In the aspect of reiteration, there are 6 lexical items which are reiterated in
The Korea Herald. The form of reiteration includes the reiteration of the same lexical
items, reiteration of the synonym, and the reiteration of the near-synonym. There is
no reiteration in the form of superordinate in The Korea Herald.
There are 3 lexical items in The Korea Herald which are reiterated by its same
lexical item. Those lexical items are ―Prime Minister‖, ―Chung‖, and ―response‖. The
lexical item of ―Prime Minister‖ is repeated 3 times while the lexical item of
―Chung‖, which is the short name of the Prime Minister, is repeated 6 times. That is
more frequent compared to the repetition of the lexical item of ―Prime Minister‖. The
Korea Herald tends to mention the Prime Minister by his short name rather than by
his position in the Government. The third lexical item which is repeated by its same
lexical item is ―response‖. This lexical item is repeated twice.
The other form of reiteration in The Korea Herald is reiteration of the
synonym. There are two pairs of lexical items which are repeated by its synonym.
The lexical item which is repeated by its synonym is ―outrage‖. It is repeated by the
lexical item of ―anger‖. Then, the second lexical item is ―sorrow‖ which is repeated
by its synonym ―sadness‖. Another form of reiteration is the repetition of the near
-synonym. In this type, there is a repetition of the lexical item ―irresponsible‖ with its
ii. Collocation
In The Korea Herald, there are 8 chains of lexical items which occur as
collocation which support the text in building its lexical cohesion. Each chain has its
own semantic relation which conveys the context about the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister.
The first chain of lexical items occurs in the first subtopic about the offer of
Prime Minister’s resignation. Those lexical items are ―offered to resign‖ and ―public
outrage‖. In this topic, the semantic relation between the two lexical items can be
described as cause and effect. It is perceived by the keyword „outrage’ as the cause of
the „offer’. On other words, the offer of Prime Minister’s resignation is caused by the
outrage of the public.
Then, there are two chains of lexical items in the second subtopic about the
Prime Minister statement’s on his resignation. There are two chains of lexical items
because there are two points that the Prime Minister mention in his resignation. The
first point that the Prime Minister mentions in his resignation is his apology to the
people for a series of problems that he had done in handling the disaster. This
subtopic is represented by the chain of lexical items including the lexical items of
―apologized‖, ―a series‖, ―steps‖, ―response‖, and ―measures‖. Then, the second chain
of lexical items which convey the context about the statements of the Prime Minister
in his resignation includes the lexical items of ―witnessing‖, ―sorrow‖, ―sadness‖, and
that one factor out of many factors which make him resigns is that he had witnessed
the sorrow, sadness, and anger of the people.
The next chain of lexical items occurs in the subtopic of the governmental
issue related to the resignation of the Prime Minister. The lexical items which occur
as collocation in this subtopic are ―accept‖ and ―resolved‖. These lexical items share
semantic relation of being complementary. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation
will be accepted if the disaster is resolved.
Then, in the subtopic of Prime Minister’s comments on the issue of some
irregularities related to the ferry sinking, the chains of lexical items which collocate
are ―rampant ―corruption and malpractices‖‖, ―rooted out‖, irregularities‖,
―revealed‖. This subtopic only appears on The Korea Herald. The Korea Herald
includes this subtopic in the news article while The New York Times only mentions
about the irregularities without adding the comment of the Prime Minister on it.
The next subtopic in The Korea Herald is the opinions about the resignation
of the Prime Minister. This subtopic only appears in The Korea Herald. The New
York Times does not mention about the opinion of the public about the resignation of
the Prime Minister. The resignation of the Prime Minister is considered „abrupt’. By
the main opposition, the resignation is considered as „utterly irresponsible’ and
„cowardly’. So, the meaning relation of this set of lexical items is that they are all
describing the opinions about the resignation of the Prime Minister.
The Korea Herald describes the accident by the lexical items of „capsized’
description of the accident by those lexical items. Then, the last chain of lexical items
which occur as collocation in The Korea Herald is in the subtopic of the critics
toward the government about their bad response to the disaster. The lexical items are
almost negative including ―mistook‖, ―false report‖, ―failing to act promptly‖, and
―inconsistent‖.
c. Grammatical Cohesion i. Reference
Reference is a semantic relation. The relation between reference and lexical
cohesion is that all types of reiteration involve identity of reference. All of the
reiterated items must have same referent. In The Korea Herald, the lexical items
which are reiterated are the lexical items of ―Prime Minister‖, ―Chung‖, and
―response‖. Those lexical items are repeated by its same lexical items. Then, there is
lexical item of ―outrage‖ which is reiterated by its synonym ―anger‖. Next is the
lexical item of ―sorrow‖ which is reiterated by its synonym ―sadness‖. Then the last
lexical item which is reiterated is the lexical item of ―irresponsible‖ which is
reiterated by its near-synonym ―abrupt‖.
Those reiterated items must have the same referent. For example, the lexical
item of ―Prime Minister‖. It is repeated for 3 times in 3 different sentences but in all 3
sentences, the lexical item of ―Prime Minister‖ has same referent. That lexical item
refers to The Prime Minister of South Korea, the one which becomes the center of the
Then, the next lexical item is the lexical item of ―Chung‖. It is repeated for 6
times in 6 different sentences in the text but in all 6 sentences the lexical item of
―Chung‖ has same referent. It refers to the sort name of the Prime Minister. Then, the
lexical item of ―response‖ which is repeated for twice has same referent too. It refers
to the action of the government in order to cope with the disaster.
Those lexical items are the lexical items which are repeated by its same
lexical item. Then, there are 2 lexical items which are repeated by its synonym. The
first lexical item is the lexical item of ―outrage‖ which is reiterated by its synonym
―anger‖. Both lexical items share the same referent of the public’s anger especially
the family of the victims. The next lexical item which is reiterated by its synonym is
―sorrow‖ which is reiterated by ―sadness‖. Both lexical items ―sorrow‖ and ―sadness‖
have same referent of the sadness of the people due to the disaster.
The last reiterated item is the lexical item of ―irresponsible‖ which is
reiterated by its near-synonym ―abrupt‖. Both lexical items refer to the opinion about
the resignation of the Prime Minister.
ii. Substitution
The borderline between the lexical cohesion and substitution is in the use of
general words such as ―thing‖ in cohesive function. The general words, which
correspond to major classes of lexical items, are very commonly used with cohesive
force.
Based on the analysis in the text, The Korea Herald uses no substitution in the
in the meaning, The Korea Herald presents the text with no substitution with general
words cannot be said that it carries no implication. The fact that The Korea Herald
uses no general words in the text implies that The Korea Herald wants to presents the
issue with its details by using no general words but by using specific nouns and verbs
iii.Ellipsis
Ellipsis is very similar to substitution. It can be defined simply as
―substitution by zero‖. The starting point of the discussion of ellipsis can be the
familiar notion that is „something left unsaid’ and another way of referring to ellipsis
is in fact as „something understood, where understood is used in special sense of
„going without saying’.
By that definition, the analysis goes in The Korea Herald finds no use of
ellipsis in the text. It implies that The Korea Herald wants the reader to understand all
information clearly. So, there are no words which are omitted. Everything is clear
with its details.
iv.Conjunction
Conjunctive elements are cohesive not in themselves but indirectly, by virtue
of their specific meanings. In The Korea Herald, there are only two conjunctions
used, the conjunction „and’ and „or’. The conjunction „and’ is used for 11 times and
the conjunction „or’ is used for twice.
The use of conjunction in The Korea Herald is only limited to the additive
type. Mostly, the conjunctions used in The Korea Herald are only maintaining the
of conjunction cannot be said to have cohesive relation because they do not hold
between sentences and make the flow of the idea clear.
2. The Cohesion of the Text from The New York Times entitled “South Korean
Prime Minister Offers to Resign over Deadly Ferry Disaster”
The article from The New York Times entitled “South Korean Prime Minister
offers to resign over Deadly Ferry Disaster” has 7 subtopics which the 4 subtopics are similar to the article from The Korea Herald, while the rest 3 subtopics are
different from The Korea Herald. The number of subtopics between The New York
Times and The Korea Herald are the same. The cohesion forms used by The New
York Times are similar to The Korea Herald which maintains its cohesion by using
the cohesion forms of reiteration, collocation, reference, and conjunction. This text
does not use the cohesion forms of substitution and ellipsis.
a. The Arrangement of Subtopics
The New York Times elaborates the context of the resignation of South
Korea’s Prime Minister into 7 subtopics. The subtopics and its elaboration are in the
following points.
i. The Offer of Prime Minister’s Resignation
This is the first subtopic that appears in this article from The New York Times
which describes the offer of the resignation of the Prime Minister. The headline of the
article mention ―South-Korea‖ unlike The Korea Herald because this article is an
article which is published outside South Korea, so the people who read this article do
ii. The critics toward the government about their bad response to the disaster.
Then, The New York Times continues the topic with the elaboration about the
critics toward the government about their bad response to the disaster. In the subtopic
of the critics toward the government about their bad response to the disaster, The New
York Times elaborates the critics by the public toward the government which are
mostly negative.
iii.The Prime Minister’s statements on his resignation
The New York Times continues the flow of the subtopics to the subtopics
about the statements of the Prime Minister in his resignation. The New York Times
elaborates this subtopic very similar to The Korea Herald. In his resignation, the
Prime Minister stated his apology to the people. Rather different from The Korea
Herald, The New York Times does not state the details of what the Prime Minister
apologizes for. Besides stating the apology to the people, the Prime Minister was also
stating his offer to resign. He stated that his decision to resign is the right thing to do
for he had seen the sadness and fury of the people which were caused by his bad
handling at the disaster.
iv.The irregularities on the operator of the ship which cause high death toll
The next topic is about the irregularities on the operator of the ship which
cause high death toll. This subtopic only appears on The New York Times. The Korea
related to the disaster, but different from The New York Times, it does not discuss the
kinds of irregularities which cause high death toll like in The New York Times.
v. The governmental issue related to the resignation of the Prime Minister
The next topic is about the governmental issue related to the resignation. The
resignation of the Prime Minister must have impacts toward the government. While
The Korea Herald discusses about the acceptance of the resignation by the President,
The New York Times adds the stereotype of the position of the Prime Minister and
President in Korean society.
vi.The recent report about the death toll and rescue struggle
After presenting the topic about the issue on the government after the
resignation of the Prime Minister, The New York Times continues the flow of the
topics with the recent report about the death toll and rescue struggle. Again, this
subtopic only appears on The New York Times.
vii. The grief of the nation due to the disaster
Then, the next topic is the grief of the nation due to the disaster. Mostly, the condition
is described as very sad and tragic. This subtopic is in the last part of the text.
b. Lexical Cohesion i. Reiteration
In the aspect of reiteration, there are 5 lexical items which are reiterated in
The New York Times. There are 2 lexical items in The New York Times which are
