AN ANALYSIS OF COHESIVE DEVICES FOUND IN THE MOST READ COLUMN OF THE JAKARTA GLOBE NEWS POST ON APRIL 2013

Dwiyanti, Arik. 2014. An Analysis of Cohesive Devices found in the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe News post on April 2013. Skripsi. English Education Department. Teacher Training and Education Faculty. Muria Kudus University. Advisors: (1) Nuraeningsih S.Pd, M.Pd (2) Dr. Drs. Slamet Utomo, M.Pd. Key words: Cohesive devices, articles and the Jakarta Globe. This research is focused on analyzing the cohesive devices found in the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe post on April 2013 in which the devices function as a way of getting text “hang together” as a whole as well as indicators of text unity. The organization of those devices are categorized as cohesion which is also considered as one of the elements helps the readers to be able to percept and interpret language well especially written form. For that reason, this study is intended to find out the kinds of cohesive devices found in the articles of the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe News post on April 2013 and how the cohesive devices contribute to the connectedness and unity within the text of the articles. This research is a descriptive qualitative research since it analyzes the kinds of cohesive devices and how do the cohesive devices contribute to the connectedness and unity within the articles. In this research, the data sources are the articles of the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe post on April 2013. All of the articles are going to be analyzed based on Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesive devices. The results of the research show that all of the kinds of cohesive devices: grammatical cohesive devices; reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction and lexical cohesive devices; reiteration which includes repetition, synonym, superordinate, and general word and collocation found in the articles of the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe News post on April 2013. And describe the principle of cohesion used to the relevance of connectedness and unity within the articles both through grammatical and lexical relations. Finally, the writer concludes that all of cohesive devices found contribute to the connectedness and unity within the articles found in the Most Read Column of the Jakarta Globe News post on April 2013. From this research, the writer suggests that we must pay attention for the use of cohesion to make a good text. Cohesion can reduce confusion in understanding the texts because we know how the sentences or paragraph are related. The writer also hopes that this research will be beneficial for the students, lecturers, readers and further researcher in order to use cohesive devices in composition of writing a good text