Cohesive Devices Expressed by The Main Character of Casino Royale Film

ABSTRACT

This research focuses on cohesive devices expressed by the main character of Casino Royale film. Cohesive devices is a part of discourse analysis, since in discourse study attention has been paid to one of the seven criteria of textuality namely cohesion, the apparent connection in discourse. Script film is chosen because there is no study about cohesive devices which is conducted before. Moreover, it includes spoken text. Most of the studies conducted previously chose written text as the object of the study. Therefore, script film is chosen as the data of this research. Furthermore, Casino Royale film is chosen since there are cohesive devices in the utterances expressed by the character of Casino Royale film. Related to those phenomena, the research problems are explored namely “What are the types of cohesive devices expressed by the main character of Casino Royale film?” and “What are the functions of cohesive devices expressed by the main character of Casino Royale film?”.

This study uses descriptive qualitative design in which the data are taken
from the utterances expressed by the main character of Casino Royale film. The data collected are identified using Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesive devices.

The finding of the study reveals that, on the grammatical cohesive devices, the researcher finds that the most common used is reference. The function is to indicate reference pronoun. Then followed by conjunction, the function is to indicate a connection between ideas. After that ellipsis, the function is to make the utterances simple. And the substitution is rarely used; its function is to make the language accurate. Nevertheless, on the lexical cohesive devices, it is found that the most common used is reiteration namely repetition followed by metonym, synonym, and hyponym. Collocation rarely found. The function of metonym, synonym, hyponym, and collocation is to make the sentences can be tied together in order to make a good coherence in the utterances.

From those findings, it is expected that this study will be useful for English learners. By knowing the information of cohesive devices in spoken text, they could pay attention to the use of them in practicing speaking to develop their speaking.