an analysis of reference public opinion text in the jakarta post

this research examines grammatical cohesion devices of reference in public opinion text of the Jakarta Post online newspaper. the data are collected from public opinion text of the Jakarta Post online newspaper ranged from November 2016until June 2017, with the theme of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's blasphemy case. this research purposes to find out the types and function of reference items in the public opinion text based on M.A.K Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan's theory of reference, using descriptive qualitative method. the researcher limits the problem by focusing the research on finding, classifying, identifying and explaining the grammatical cohesion devices of references in public opinion texts of The Jakarta Post. the result reveals that there are three types of cohesion devices of reference in public opinion texts of The Jakarta Post Online newspaper, which are personal reference, demonstrative reference, and comparative reference. these references in the texts function to give comprehensive meaning of the context.ix , 74 hlm, ilusi; 25 c