An Analysis of Cohesion Markers on The AFF Final Competition 2016 News in The Bangkok Post and The Jakarta Globe

This research examined cohesion markers in the AFF Final 2016 news in online media of The Bangkok Post and The Jakarta Globe. The objective of the research was to know the kinds of cohesion markers which were used in both article, and to know how the cohesion markers represented perspective of the writer in each article. This study applied qualitative method and descriptive analysis technique for data analysis. Two articles about The AFF Final Competition 2016 in The Bangkok Posts and The Jakarta Globe were collected, next the articles were read and the cohesion markers that occurred in the texts were analyzed to know how the cohesion markers show cohesiveness of the news. The writer used the theory of cohesion markers of Halliday and Hasan. There were 61 items of grammatical cohesion markers in article from The Bangkok Post and 44 items in article from The Jakarta Globe. In lexical cohesion markers, there were 20 items in article from The Bangkok Post and 19 items in article from The Jakarta Globe. The cohesion markers created the cohesiveness of the text. It can be said if the using of cohesion markers according to their functions and related to the context of the text. If the text is cohesive, it will be understood easily by the readers