A discourse analysis of cohesion in “Romeo and Juliet” movie

This study focuses on analyzing Cohesion in Romeo and Juliet of conversation spoken by the main characters in Cohesion in Romeo and Juliet. Cohesion is the term used to describe the grammatical means by which sentences and paragraphed are linked and relationships between them established. Cohesion is the grammatical and lexical linking within a text or sentence that holds a text together and gives it meaning. It is related to the broader concept of coherence. In Cohesion in English, Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan identify five general categories of cohesive devices that create coherence in texts: reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical cohesion and conjunction.

This research was designed by using descriptive qualitative method because the data of this research were in the form of utterances or speeches, which were not statistically analyzed. In this case, this study also used Discourse Analysis because the researcher wanted to know how language used and to know cohesion in movie.

The research finding in data description which discusses about the words and the sentences used in “Romeo and Juliet” movie. This research tries to answer the problem by analyzing and describing the data by using table of data which can be seen in finding a data.

The data show that are types of grammatical cohession and function by “Romeo and Juliet” movie. In line with Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesion, the result of the analysis show the total number of grammatical cohesion found in the utterances expressed by “Romeo and Juliet”. Based on the data finding, discussion and analysis, it is suggested for the next researchers who want to conduct a study in the same field to use another subject which is historical movie or others relevant object. It can make enrich knowledge in Indonesia.