A STUDY OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN THE SPEECH OF THERESA MAY’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE IN 2017
Cohesion is a sign of the coherence of political speech as it is also considered a text. Tanskanen (2006) states that in contributing the coherence of a text, cohesion could occur as a signal. The occurrence of cohesion, signalled by cohesive devices, could help to improve the coherence of the po...
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| Summary: | Cohesion is a sign of the coherence of political speech as it is also considered
a text. Tanskanen (2006) states that in contributing the coherence of a text, cohesion
could occur as a signal. The occurrence of cohesion, signalled by cohesive devices,
could help to improve the coherence of the political speech to create a meaningful
message for the audiences. This study aims at analysing the use of cohesive devices
in the speech of Theresa May’s Conservative Party Conference in 2017. There are
two theories which are used to conduct the study. The theory proposed by Halliday
and Hasan (1976) is used to analyse the grammatical cohesive devices and the one
proposed by Renkema (2004) for the lexical cohesive devices. The method used to
conduct the study is qualitative method. There are several main findings. Personal
reference is the most frequently used grammatical cohesive devices with 123
occurences, while repetition the highest number of occurrences among lexical
cohesive devices types with 13 times. |
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