LEXICAL COHESION ANALYSIS OF THE ARTICLE WHAT IS A GOOD RESEARCH PROJECT? BY BRIAN PALTRIDGE

This study aims at finding out the types of lexical cohesion and identifying the types of lexical cohesion in a journal article by Brian Paltridge entitled What is a Good Research Project? This study chooses qualitative method as the research design since it is suitable to discuss and explain clearly about the meaning relation of lexical cohesion. The data were in the form of text that contains many sentences and is found by searching internet. The data were analyzed using the categorization of cohesion, namely lexical cohesion proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Paltridge (2000). The findings of this study present repetition that belongs to the most frequent type of lexical cohesion types. It has 320 occurrences (64%) from the total number of findings; then, collocation with 82 occurrences (16,4%); synonymy with 45 occurrences (9%); meronymy has 24 occurrences (4,8%); antonymy has 17 occurrences (3,4%). Meanwhile, the fewest frequent refers to hyponymy with the result is only 12 occurrences (2,4%) from the total of findings. It can be concluded that the journal article under study contains the elements of lexical cohesion to create cohesiveness in the text itself. It is because the use of lexical cohesion was applied in order to make easy for the readers in understanding the meaning of whole text