Grammatical cohesion analysis in speech transcripts of joko widodo at ceo forum asean-australia summit 2018 and donald trump at inauguration speech 2017

Language is important thing for human. Language is not only about spoken but also about written. By using language we can deliver information easily to other. In delivering some information, cohesion is needed to make the information easily to understand. Cohesion is how words and expressions within and between texts is connected using cohesive device. The purpose of this study are to know how the grammatical cohesion are used in JokoWidodo at CEO Forum ASEAN-Australia Summit 2018 and Donald Trump at Inauguration Speech 2017, and to find out the similarities and the differences of grammatical cohesion of JokoWidodo at CEO Forum ASEAN-Australia Summit 2018 and Donald Trump at Inauguration Speech 2017. This research is descriptive qualitative research. Where the data is grammatical cohesion, while the data source is the transcripts speech of JokoWidodo at CEO Forum ASEAN-Australia Summit 2018 and Donald Trump 2017. The data and data source then analyzed by using theory from Halliday and Hasan (1976). The result of this research by using Halliday and Hasan (1976) theory shows that: the grammatical cohesion that mostly used in JokoWidodo speech transcript is possessive adjective “our” that refer to JokoWidodo and the participants, he also uses demonstrative reference “this” that refer to the word that said before. For conjunction, he uses additive conjunction “and” a lot in his speech that refers to connecting between words, phrase or clause. While Donald Trump, he uses personal pronoun “we” and possessive adjective “our” a lot in his speech that refer to Donald Trump and the participants. Beside use personal reference, Donald Trump also use demonstrative reference “this” as determiners words in his speech. the last, he uses additive conjunction”and” refer to connecting between words, phrase or clause. And the similarities of both speeches are they use reference, ellipsis and conjunction in their speech. While, they have differences on substitution and causal conjunction. Where Donald Trump use nominal substitution “ones” and causal conjunction “because”, JokoWidodo does not use it. The length of the speech also different, JokoWidodo has speech length 685 words while Donald Trump has 1.433 words. The last but not least, the writer suggest that cohesion is important to be studied because it can help the students to build up their ability in doing conversation