Haririn, Ahza Lina (2012) Cohesion and coherence on opinion columns in the Jakarta Post. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
Writing is considered as a text which is not a collection of unrelated sentences but each sentence must have connectedness to the related sentence in the text. Moreover, unity of the text is the main consideration for the writer to make his writing cohesive and coherent. The unity of the text is attainable through the cohesion in the text. Without the use of correct cohesion in the text, the text will not coherent and unite, thus it is not considered as a good writing. Besides the use of cohesive devices, there is one more important element for the writer to be considered in making a good paragraph that is coherence. One of the kinds of text is opinion text which includes in argumentative essay. Since the arguments on argumentative essay come from someone’s mind, then sometimes the writing is not cohesive and coherent. Hence, seeing this phenomenon often becomes a problem in writing activity, the researcher chose the opinion columns in The Jakarta Post become her research object.
This research has two problems that are; (1) What are the types of cohesive and coherent devices used in the opinion columns in The Jakarta Post?, (2)What are the functions of cohesive and coherent devices used in the opinion columns in The Jakarta Post?
The research design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. The data are taken from opinion columns in The Jakarta Post official website. Not all of the articles are chosen by the researcher but she chose the articles about the government’s plan to raise the fuel price. Furthermore in collecting data, the researcher done several steps, first the researcher read the title of the articles then she chose the articles about the government’s plan to raise the fuel price. Then, the researcher analyzed the data in several steps, first she read all of the texts. After that, she analyzed the types of cohesive and coherent devices proposed by Jan Renkema (2004) and, Oshima and Hogue (2006) which are found in the texts. After found the types, the researcher analyzed the functions of each type of cohesive and coherent devices.
From the finding of research can be obtained that the writers of opinion columns in The Jakarta Post use both of grammatical and lexical cohesion in the texts. The grammatical cohesion used in the texts such as reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. However, the widely used in the texts is reference.
While not all of lexical cohesion used in the texts. The lexical cohesion found in the texts are repetition, synonym, antonym, and hyponym, while there is no metonym and collocation found in the texts. Furthermore, all of coherent devices are found in the texts such as repetition of key noun, use consistent pronoun, transition signals, and logical order. However, not all of the paragraphs are using coherent devices.
Besides finding the types of cohesive and coherent devices, the researcher also found the functions of each type. The function of reference is to indicate the using of reference in the texts, while substitution is to substitute the word by a dummy word. The function ellipsis is to indicate omission of the word in the text, and conjunction has many functions related to the kinds of conjunction. Further, the function of using lexical cohesion in the text is to indicate repetition, synonym, antonym, hyponym, and metonym. For coherent devices, the function of repetition of key noun is to provide the readers with necessary signposts and to strengthen the flow of essay. The function of use consistent pronouns is to point out to a noun in previous sentence, while transition signals has many functions related to the kinds of transition signals used in the texts. Then, the function of logical order is to make the idea clearly stating in the paragraph.
In conclusion, the researcher concludes that the paragraphs in the texts are quite cohesive and coherent. Since the writers was already using the appropriate cohesive devices in the texts. Nevertheless, there is a few paragraphs are using appropriate coherent devices and many of the paragraphs are not bring one idea in each paragraphs then it makes the paragraph less coherent.
The suggestion from the researcher related to this research are, first the writers should be more concerned about the using of appropriate cohesive and coherent devices in writing. For the students, they should apply this theory in writing practice in order to make a good writing, and for the next researcher, he/she should develop this theory in widely discussion by using another object.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Basri, Basri | ||||||
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Keywords: | cohesion; coherence; writing; opinion columns | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Nada Auliya Sarasawitri | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2023 13:26 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 15:15 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/48244 |
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