LEXICAL COHESION IN SURAH AL – WAQIAH TRANSLATION

Cohesion is generally described as having broad categories: "grammatical cohesion" and "lexical cohesion".These categories reflect a view on language that treats grammar and lexis along separate lines. Cohesion can be seen in a new light: cohesion is created by interlocking lexical grammatical patterns and overlapping lexical items. the writer interest in discussing lexical cohesion means „tying‟ our words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs together, to create a text where the relationships between these elements is clear and logical to the reader.The aims of this research are: First, to elaborate the types of lexical cohesion appear in surah Al –waqiah the English version of Quran explorer and Printed Quran,Second, to find the most dominant lexical cohesion in surah Al – waqiah the English version of Quran explorer and Printed Quran,Third, to know the differences and the similarities between Surah Al- waqiah the English version of Quran Explorer and printed Quran. The writer applied the theory of lexical cohesion by Halliday and Hasan (1976). this research is qualitative research that focused on qualitative research by Somantri(2005). intecnique of data collecting the writer uses documentary technigue. The writer found on the research that first: There are three types of lexical cohesion appear in surah Al – Waqiah the English version of Quran explorer and Printed Quran are Synonym and repetition and hyponym, second: The most dominant lexical cohesion in surah Al – Waqiah the English version of Quran explorer and Printed Quran. There are only three kinds of lexical cohesion that appears in Surah Al – Waqiah, they are Synonym and Repetition and hyponymy then the most dominant between both of lexical is Repetition. Based on the data, the total of the verses are 30 verses and the synonym only 14 but the Repetition is 16 and third Based on Tafsir Al misbah the meaning of Printed Al quran is more close to Tafsir Al misbah. From the total of the verses are 30 the 16 verses of printed Al quran more close meaning to Tafsir Al misbah, on the other hand only 14 verse of Digital Al quran from Quran Exlorer close meaning to Tafsir Al Misbah