Lexical Cohesion Analysis In Technology News On Bbc E-Newspaper

The aims of this study are to analyze the lexical cohesion devices andenumerate the degree of cohesiveness in technology news text on BBC ENewspaperentitled How to build the next-generation of Internet? published onOctober 13, 2017. The main focus of this research is on lexical cohesion deviceswith the theory proposed by Halliday and Hasan. Descriptive qualitative methodis used to describe the lexical cohesion devices contained in this object. Throughthis method, the lexical cohesion devices found in the article is categorized andanalyzed. In addition, Scinto?s formula also applied to determine the degree ofcohesiveness in the text. The cohesion devices found in the whole article are85,2% of repetition, 5% of synonym, 6,6% of superordinate, 1,6% of generalword and 1,6% of collocation. Furthermore, this study discovered that the articlehas a high degree of cohesiveness.viii.41 hlm.ilus.25.c