Grammatical and lexical cohesion of jounalistic text and fiction text

The thesis examines cohesion in journalistic and fiction texts. The main object of the research is to know the cohesion devices (grammatical and lexical cohesion) integrate the sentences in both journalist text and fiction text and also to know the dominant cohesion devices which are used in both texts as distinguish between them. This study applies descriptive and comparative methods where she discusses the cohesion devices used in both journalistic and fiction texts. In discussing the research, the writer uses cohesion devices theory by Halliday and Hasan. The writer concludes that, the dominant cohesion devices which are used in journalistic text is lexical cohesion, while grammatical cohesion devices are more dominant in fiction text. However, although they have different intensity in using cohesion devices items, cohesion devices are the important role in integrating the texts although they occur in different type of text