An Analysis of Lexical Cohesion in the Editorial of The Jakarta Post in August 2010

Cohesion parts of language to creating good text. The realization occurs when connected of single words to large sentence, wherever it does not provide by size like clause, it is more general and close. General, cohesion non structural unit and close, cohesion needs structure to make text “cohere”. Structure applies element of cohesion that it has several term of use in creating text. There are structure, texture and tie that have relation each other to interpret a text. In this research, it has two objectives of the research. First, to find out the types of lexical cohesion found in the editorials of the Jakarta Post in August 2010. Second, to describe the functions of lexical cohesion found in the editorials of the Jakarta Post in August 2010. This research are descriptive qualitative research, I collected and analyzed the data and take conclusion based on the data. The data of this research are lexical cohesion. Then, the data source are editorial of the Jakarta post in August 2010 that chosen by random sampling and got seven editorial. The results of this research are: first, there are two types of lexical cohesion found in editorial of the Jakarta post in August 2010, they are general and instantial, second there are eight functions found in editorial of the Jakarta post in August 2010, they are repetition, synonym, antonym, hyponym, meronym, equivalent, naming and semblance. The figures shown based on functions are repetition got 896 words, synonym got 113 words, antonym got 39 words, meronym got 37 words, hyponym got 52 words, equivalent got 67 words, naming 5 words, semblance 1 words. Therefore, I suggested for teacher can give their understanding about lexical cohesion though in editorial. Then, student of Muria Kudus University can add their knowledge about lexical cohesion. Finally, newsreader gets more information about lexical cohesion