LEXICAL COHESION OF ENGLISH – LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS IN INDONESIA
Keywords:
Leksical Cohesion, English-Langauge Newspaper, DominantAbstract
The study provides an empirical analysis on the use of lexical cohesion in English-langauge newspapers in Indonesia. Data for the study were 13 articles collected from 3 leading english-langauge newspapers in Indonesia. Halliday and Hassan seminal work of “Cohesion inEnglishâ€provides a comprehensive taxonomy of lexical cohesive devices and Dooley and Levinsohn monograf gives the thorough examples how to analyse cohesive devices in the text. Of 424 lexical cohesive devices found in the samples, 171 (40. 3%) were repetition and 167 (39%) were collocation which are the most dominant lexical cohesive devices in the articles
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Alice Oshima, A. H. 1999. Writing Academic English (3rd Edition). New York: Longman.
Dooley, R.A. and Levinsohn, S. . 2001. Analyzing Discourse. A Manual of Basic Concepts. Dallas, TX: SIL International.
Halliday, M. A. . and H. R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
Hasan, R. 1984. Coherence and Cohesion Harmony. Delaware: International Reading Assciation
Horning, A. 1991. Readable Writing: The Role of Cohesion and Redundancy. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20865767
Kuo, C.H. 1995. Cohesion and Coherence in Academic Writing: From Lexical Choice To Organization.https://doi.org/10.1177/003368829502600103
Morris, Jane &Graeme Hirst. 1991. Lexical Cohesion Computed by Thesaural Relations as an Indicator of the Structure of Text.
Prayitno, B. R. 2009. Analisis Wacana. Jakarta: Universitas Indonesia.
Van Tonder, S.L. 1999. Lexical Cohesion in Stuudent Academic Writing.
Yarmohammadi, L. 1995. Fifteen Articles in Contrastive Linguistics and the Structure of Persian: Grammar. Text and Discourse. Rahnama Publishers.
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2019-02-06
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Arif Rahman, Y. (2019). LEXICAL COHESION OF ENGLISH – LANGUAGE NEWSPAPERS IN INDONESIA. Akrab Juara : Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial, 4(1), 161–168. Retrieved from https://akrabjuara.com/index.php/akrabjuara/article/view/477
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