Discourse analysis on cohesive devices found in the female’s fashion blog

This research focuses on the types and the functions of cohesive devices which are used in a fashion blog. Cohesion is the relationship between an element to another in a text which is expressed partly through grammar and partly through vocabulary. Cohesive devices include reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction reiteration and collocation. The reason for taking Diana Rikasari’s blog is because there are many types of cohesive devices in that blog.

This study is descriptive qualitative research with discourse analysis approach. The data sources are taken from Diana Rikasari’s blog from January – June 2014. The data are analyzed using Halliday & Hasan’s theory of cohesion. The research instrument is the writer because the writer is the one who is able to observe the object of the analysis, obtain the data analysis, and analyze them. There are some steps in collecting and analyzing the data, the first is reading these data many times to understand the context. The next step is choosing utterance containing cohesive devices. The next is coding the utterance containing cohesive devices by using the bold and underlines. The last step is describing the finding and making a conclusion.

The findings of this study show that the devices both in grammatical and lexical cohesions are found in the data. It can be concluded that the types of grammatical cohesions which are used in the data are reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. For lexical cohesion, the two types of lexical cohesion namely reiteration and collocation are employed. It has the different findings with the previous studies. There are three types of cohesive devices which are not found in this study, they are clausal substitution, clausal ellipsis and reiteration metonym.

Based on the findings, the suggestions are recommended to further researcher in order they can use different genre in the object of study. Therefore the content of the data is different and they will find the different findings. Also, hopefully this research can be used as example for English teachers in explains some materials in the class.