SBY‘S ―TOWARD HARMONY AMONG CIVILIZATIONS‖: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

This research is aimed to know how the grammatical cohesion is used in the speech that is delivered by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) entitled ―Towards Harmony Among Civilization". It is interesting to get the research about the grammatical cohesion used in the speech that talks about the global era that delivered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University in 2009. In this occasion, he becomes a speaker in stadium general at John F Kennedy School of Government Harvard University, his speech is becoming one of influence speech in the word in the era globalization. The objective of this research is to describe the using of grammatical cohesion in speech ―Towards Harmony Among Civilization". This research uses descriptive qualitative method and library research method to collecting data. To answer this question, this research uses grammatical cohesion theory delivered by Halliday and Hasan. in this research, the researcher finds out that SBY uses 849 forms of grammatical cohesions. It consists of reference, ellipsis, conjunction, and substitution. For the reference, SBY uses 595 references that consist of personal, demonstrative and comparative reference. For the ellipsis, SBY uses nine ellipses, that is nominal ellipsis. For the conjunction, SBY uses 244 conjunctions that consist of additive, adversative, causal and temporal conjunction. while, for the substitution, SBY uses one substitution, it is verbal substitution The grammatical cohesion used by SBY is sometime used endophoric and sometimes exophoric. It is used endophoric if the reference exists in the text and it is used exophoric if the reference does not exist in the text