Grammatical and lexical cohesion analysis in sport news text on The Jakarta Post

In this research, the writer discusses the using of cohesion device in sport news text. The datum is collected from The Jakarta Post on March 2nd 2015. This research is aimed to know kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion appear in news text, to know the dominant cohesion devices which are used, and to know the degree of cohesiveness. The writer uses a qualitative method in this research. He uses Halliday and Hasan?s theory of cohesion to find out the grammatical and lexical cohesion device utilized in the text, then he counts the dominant cohesion devices which appear in the text, finally he measures the degree of cohesiveness by using Scinto?s Formula. The result of this research shows the grammatical cohesion devices utilized in the text are Reference, Substitution, and Conjunction. While, the lexical cohesion devices utilized in the text are Reiteration (Repetition, Synonym, Superordinate, and General Word) and Collocation. Then, The dominant device of grammatical cohesion is Reference, its percentage reaches 65,71%. Meanwhile, the dominant lexical cohesion is Repetition, its percentage reaches 16,57%. The cohesiveness degree is very different. Grammatical cohesion reaches 405,85%. Contrast to grammatical cohesion, lexical cohesion reaches 108,82%. Although the percentage of cohesiveness degree is too far, both of them are still in very high category