THE USE OF COHESIVE DEVICES IN AN ARTICLE ABOUT BALI NINE PUBLISHED IN ONLINE NEWSPAPER “THE AUSTRALIAN”
Newspapers provide a lot of information. However, students in language field might find more than that. They can find a plenty of linguistic data that are useful for their study. Newspapers have their own specific discourse in order to make the readers understand the content. Cohesion can be used...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed |
| Language: | Indonesian Indonesian |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://repository.unair.ac.id/58053/1/ABSTRAK.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/58053/2/FS.%20BE.%20112-16%20Sar%20u.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/58053/ http://lib.unair. ac.id |
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| Institution: | Universitas Airlangga |
| Language: | Indonesian Indonesian |
| Summary: | Newspapers provide a lot of information. However, students in language field
might find more than that. They can find a plenty of linguistic data that are useful for
their study. Newspapers have their own specific discourse in order to make the readers
understand the content. Cohesion can be used in order to create the connection between
sentences. The aims of this study are to find out the types of cohesive devices and to
identify what types of cohesive devices is mostly used in an article. It uses the types of
cohesion proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and Renkema (2004). The writer uses
an article about Bali Nine published in online newspaper The Australian. The results
show several main findings. First, the writer finds that the types of grammatical cohesion
used in the article are reference, conjunction, and substitution. Second, the lexical
cohesion that are used in the article are repetition and synonymy. Third, based on the
data, reference is the most frequently used in the article in order to show specificity. |
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