GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESION OF JOURNALISTIC TEXT AND FICTION TEXT Uni~~rsilasJSI~(l1J'Jege~ SYARIF HIDAYATULLAHJAKARTA JAMILAH 105026000940 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2009 GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESION OF JOURNALISTIC TEXT AND FICTION TEXT A Thesis Submitted to Adab aud Humanities Faculty in Partial Fulfillmentofthe Requirement for the Degree ofLetters Shcolar __ Ir"-~-- PERPUST~~;~~TA~~=) S~AI-~~?JA~RT~_) ! UIN • ,.y., •,""".,...,.....<P'~ SYARIF·H1DA~At~rtA~e~A~RfA JAMILAH 105026000940 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2009 ABSTRACT Jamilah, Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion ofJournalistic Text and Fiction Text. Thesis. Jakalia: English Letters Department, Adab and Humanities Faculty, State Islmnic University SyarifHidayatuUah, 2009. The thesis examines cohesion in journalistic and fiction texts. The main object of the research is to know the cohesion devices (grammatical and lexical cohesion) integrate the sentences in bothjournalist text and fiction text and also to know the dominant cohesion devices which are used in both texts as distinguish between them. This study applies descriptive and comparative methods where she discusses the cohesion devices used in bothjournalistic and fiction texts. In discussing the research, the writer uses cohesion devices theory by Halliday and Hasan. The writer concludes that, the dominant cohesion devices which are used in journalistic text is lexical cohesion, while grammatical cohesion devices are more dominant in fiction text. However, although they have different intensity in using cohesion devices items, cohesion devices are the important role in integrating the texts although they occur in different type oftext. AI'I'IWYEMENT GRAMMATICAL AND LEXICAL COHESION OF JOURNALISTIC TEXTAND FICTION TEXT A Thesis Submittedto Letters and Humanities Facultyinpartial Fulfillmentofthe Requirement for· the DegreeofStrataOne Jamilah NIM. 105026000940 ;/ App-ro0ved7by;:;;: 9 . saVO;:~. /Dr. Frans Supervisor . ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTMENT ADAB AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATEISLAMIC UNIVERSITY"SYARIFHIDAYATULLAH" JAKARTA 2009 LEGALIZATION The thesis entitled "Grammatical andLexical Cohesion ofJournalistic Text and Fiction Text" has been defended before the Letters and Humanities Faculty's Examination Committee on November, 3rd 2009. The thesis has been accepted as a partial fulfillment ofthe requirement for the degree ofStrata I (SI) in English Letters Department. Jakarta, November 3rd, 2009 ExaminationCommittee ChairPerson, Secretary, -I#}i{[~ h JYf.Pd Farkhan M.Pd Drs. A. Saepuddin, 919200003 1002 NIP. 19640710199303 1006 Members: Muh. Supardi, M.Hum DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best ofmy knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by anotherpersonnormaterial whichto asubstantialextenthasbeenaccepted forthe award ofany other degree or diploma ofthe university or other institute ofhigher learning, exceptwheredue acknowledgementhasbeenmade in the text. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the name ofAllah SWT, the Beneficent, the MercifiJl. All the praises be to Allah SWT, Lord ofthe Universe. The writer is really sure that without His help and mercy this thesis would not have been complemented. Peace and blessing be upon our prophet Muhammad SAW, His family, His comparisonand all His followers. This work could not be completed without a great deal ofhelp fi'om many people, especially Dr Frans Sayogie, M.Pd as her advisor for guiding and suggesting herto make a good thesis, from beginning until the end. The writerwhishesto say gratitudetothe following persons: I. Dr. H. Abdul Choir MA, as the Dean ofFaculty ofAdab and Humanities, SyarifHidayatullah StateIslamic University. 2. Dr. M. Farkhan, M.Pd. the Head of English Department, and Drs Asep Saepuddin, M. Pd. asthe secretary ofEnglish Department. 3. All lectures of English Department for helping and educating the writer during her study at SyarifHidayatullah StateIslamicUniversity. 4. The writer's beloved parents, her brother and sister for giving support and motivation to finish her study. 5. All friends at English Department. 6. To all persons and friends for giving their help and support in writing this thesis so thatthe writer could notmentioned one by one. May Allah SWTalways bless and protect them. Finally the writer realizes that this thesis is far from being perfect. Therefore, the writer hopes any constructive criticism, suggestion, and advice for a better improvement. Jakarta, November3rd2009 The Writer TABLE OF CONTENT ABSTRACT i APPROVEMENT ii LEGALIZATION iii DECLARATION iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT v TABLE OF CONTENTS vii CHAPTER1. INTRODUCTION I A. Background ofthe Study 1 B. Focus ofthe Study 3 C. Research Question 3 D. Significance ofthe Study 4 E. Research Methodology 4 1. Objective 4 2. Method 4 3. Technique 5 4. Analysis Unit 5 CHAPTERII. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 6 A. The DefinitionofDiscourse 6 B. The DefinitionofTextUnity: Coherenceand Cohesion 7 C. The ConceptofCohesion 8 1. The CohesionDevices 10 a). Grammatical Cohesion Devices 12 b). Lexical CohesionDevices 23 CHAPTER111. RESEARCH FINDING 27 A. Data Description 27 B. Analysis 31 1. Text I 31 2. Text 2 44 C. Comparison 58 1. Reference 60 2.Repetirion 60 3. Superordinate 61 4. Synonym 62 5. Hyponym 62 CHAPTERIV. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 64 APPENDIX 67 1. Israel hits in Gaza's most violent day 67 2. Rapunzel 69 REFERENCES 70
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