Cohesion analysis of crime news texts in New York Daily News and the village voice

The objective of this research is to find out grammatical and lexical cohesion devices in two articles taken from crime feature. Also, the purpose of this research is to how the cohesion devices show the cohesiveness of the texts. The writer takes two articles from New York Daily News and The Village Voice edition of 24 April 2014, both are online mass media published every day. The methodology used in this research is qualitative method. Two articles from crime feature in New York Daily News and The Village Voice are collected, next the articles are read and the cohesion devices that occur in the texts will be found to know how the cohesion devices show the cohesiveness of the texts. There are 43 items of grammatical cohesion devices in article from New York Daily News and 78 items in article from The Village Voice. In lexical cohesion devices, there are 20 items in article from New York Daily News and 44 items in article from The Village Voice. The cohesion devices created the cohesive text. It can be said if the using of cohesion devices according to their functions and related to the context of the text. If the text is cohesive, it will be understood well by the readers