Abdul Rohim

COHESION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST’S
EDITORIAL
A Thesis
Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty
in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
to Degree of Letters Scholar
Abdul Rohim
105026000962
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTEMENT

LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH
JAKARTA
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ABSTRACT
Abdul Rohim, Cohesion Analysis on The Jakarta Post’s Editorial. A Thesis.

Jakarta: Letters and Humanities faculty, state Islamic University “Syarif
Hidayatullah” September 2009.
The objective of this study is to identify the uses of cohesion in editorial

on the Jakarta post daily newspaper. The data analysis technique to this study, the
writer adopts a library study and quantitative analysis.
The result of this research shows that cohesion devices both grammatical
and the lexical has the highest and lowest occurrence, The cohesion through the
grammatical cohesive which has the highest occurrence is reference item
especially personal reference, it contrasts with other cohesive, that is substitution.
Although, the absence of the substitution item seemingly does not
influence the cohesiveness of the text. It is because the absence of the substitution
is succeeded by the other agency, that is reference. It means that the cohesiveness
of the text remains high.
Apart from grammatical cohesion, for the lexical cohesion, the writer
found some repetition words stretches across several sentences in every text of the
Jakarta Post's editorial and it is the highest occurrence lexically.
Then it means that cohesion has correlation between clauses within a text
grammatically or lexically, and cohesive agencies have a function as unifier of
text properties and have significance role in giving information to the readers to
understand a text easily as good as possible.
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APPROVEMENT
COHESION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST’S EDITORIAL
A Thesis
Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for
to Degree of Letters Scholar
Abdul Rohim
105026000962
Approved by:
Dr Frans Sayogie, M.Pd.

Supervisor
ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTEMENT

LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY
STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH
JAKARTA
2010
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LEGALIZATION
The thesis entitled “Cohesion Analysis on The Jakarta Post's Editorial”

has been defended before the Letter and Humanities Faculty’s Examination
Committee on December 04, 2010. The thesis has already been accepted as a
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of strata 1.
Jakarta, December 04, 2010
Examination Committee
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3. Dr. Frans Sayogie, M.Pd (Advisor) ________

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5. Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd (Examiner II) ________

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DECLARATION
I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, it contains no material previously published or written by
another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the
award of any other degree of diploma of the university or other institute of higher
learning, except where due acknowledgment has been made in the text.
Jakarta, February 24, 2010
Abdul Rohim
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful
All praise just be to God Allah The Almighty, the Lord of the world, who
has given the writer guidance and strength until he could finish this paper. Peace
and Salutation be upon to the great messenger of Allah our prophet Muhammad
SAW and his families, his relives and all of his followers.
First of all, in this short of this thesis acknowledgement, the writer is eager
to express his gratitude to his family especially to his beloved parent (Bapak
Sutrisno and Ibu Sutiyem) thank you very much for your prayer, pure love,
support, affection and advice.
Second one, the writer wants to thank to his advisor Dr Frans Sayogie,
M.Pd. for his great advices and contribution of thought in finishing this paper.
May Allah bless his and his family.
For the last of all, the writer wants to express his gratitude to the following
person.
1. Prof. Dr. Komaruddin Hidayat, M.A. the Rector of State Islamic
University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
2. Dr. Abdul Chair, M.A. the Dean of Letters and Humanities Faculty of
State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.
3. Dr. H. Muhammad Farhan, M.Pd. the head of English Letters
Departement.
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4. Drs Saefuddin M.Pd , the Secretary of English Letters Departement.
5. All lectures of English letters Departement who have taught and inspired
the writer during his study.
6. All of his friend in Class C (Mamduh, Maunk and friends in special
moment of the game and joke) and also in KAMMI ( akh Deden, Masdar,
Sholikhin and friends), thank you very much for your support, motivation
and prayer, and the writer does not forget to thank to all of his friend that
can not be mentioned one by one.
Finally, the writer hopes this work will be useful for some linguistic study
and also can give a lot of benefit for students of English Language especially and
it can be useful contribution as a useful reference for the further research. And the
writer realizes that this paper is far from being perfect, therefore it is really a
pleasure for him to receive some suggestions and critics.
Jakarta, September 2009
The Writer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ABSTRACT …………………………………………………………… i
APPROVEMENT ……………………………………………………… ii
LEGALIZATION ……………………………………………………… iii
DECLARATION ……………………………………………………… iv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………………………… v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ………………………………………………. vii
LIST OF TABLE ……………………………………………………….. ix
LIST OF SCHEME …………………………………………………….. x
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION …………………. …………………… 1
A. Background of the study………………………………………… 1
B. Focus of the study ………………………………………………. 4
C. Research Question ……………………………………………… 4
D. Objective of the study …………………………………………. 4
E. Significance of the study……………………………………….. 5
F. Research methodology ………………………………………….. 5
CHAPTER II THEORICAL FRAMEWORK ………………………….. 6
A. The concept of Cohesion ………………………………………… 6
1 Text ……………………………………………………………….. 6
2 Texture ……………………………………………………………. 7
3 Cohesion …………………………………………………………... 8
A. Grammatical Cohesion …………………………………………... 9
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B. Lexical Cohesion ………………………………………………. 20
CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS ……………………………………. 24
A. Data Description …………………………………………………… 24
B. Data Analysis ………………………………………………………. 29
1 Text 1 ………………………………………………………… 29
2 Text 2 …………………………………………………………. 37
3 Text 3 …………………………………………………………. 45
4 Text 4 …………………………………………………………. 52
5 Text 5 …………………………………………………………. 58
CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ………………… 67
A. CONCLUSION ………………………………………………… 67
B. SUGGESTION …………………………………………………. 68
BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………………………………………… 69
APPENDICES …………………………………………………………. 70
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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1 : Personal Reference …………………………………………. 11
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LIST OF SCHEME
Scheme 1 : Reference ……………………………………………… 10

Scheme 2 : Demonstrative reference ……………………………… 12
Ssheme 3 : Comparative reference ……………………………….. 13
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language plays an important role in human life; human life and language
cannot be separated from each other. Human need language to socialize with other
people around them. They are interacting to communicate and know each other,
for it is improbable to live in the world without interaction. That is one of the
functions of language as the only device of communication. Communication itself
is defined as transmission of a message from s source to a receiver, or it is defined
as a process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information. 1
That is one of the examples of the important of language especially for
human being, because language is used for communication and language is
systematic and set of arbitrary symbols, it is based on many linguists’ definition.
Language is system of arbitrary vocal symbols and grammatical signals 2 , by
means of which the members of speech community communicate, interact and
transmit their culture.
Language is so significant that people have to use it everyday, they use it
to communicate, to interact with other and they also use it to convey their idea and
felling. It can be in oral or written form. Any kind of conversation from informal
to very formal discussion can be described as oral language such us speech

1
A S Hornby. Oxford advanced learner’s dictionary sixth edition. (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000), p. 257
2
Ronald Wardhaugh. Introduction To Linguistics. (New York: University of Michigan, 1972), p.3
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presentation, lecture presentation, etc. Written and printed texts such us
newspapers, articles, letters, stories, etc, are considered as to be the part of written
language.
Written texts are different from spoken interaction. To compile a written
text, a writer has to think more, a writer should compose a well-formed text so
that his or her readers understand it easily. A text is considered to be well-formed
one when the clauses and sentences within the text link one to another. A well-
formed text will be created if the texts are mutually relevant to each other reveal
major factors about the standards of textuality, according to De Beaugrande and
Dressler mention that one of the seven standards of textuality consist of
Cohesion. 3 Every word, phrase, clause and sentence in written texts have to be
connected to each other. The sequences of the sentences which connect each other
make a unit which is called text. 4
In conclusion, a text must have Texture, as what Halliday and Hasan
wrote in their book the unity of text has strong connection with texture. The
concept of texture is entirely appropriate to express the property of being text. A
text has texture, and this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text.
It derivers that texture from the fact that is function as a unity with respect to it
environment. 5 Texture is shown by the relations of meaning which exist within a
3
Robert de Beaugande and Wolfgang Dressler, Introduction to Text Linguistics (London and New
York: Longman Group limited, 1981), p. 19
4
Ririen Ekoyanantiasih, et al., Pemahaman Siswa Kelas 3 SLTP DKI Jakarta Terhadap Wacana
Bahasa Indonesia (Jakarta: Pusat Bahasa DepDikNas, 2002), p. 10
5
Halliday and Hasan, cohesion in English (London: Longman Group Limited, 1976), p. 2
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text. The study on relation of meaning which exist within a text is then called
cohesion. 6
In a text should not be separated from cohesion. Cohesion is a connection
between an element with another element in a text so that it will be a good
comprehension, for compelling a cohesive text, it uses some instruments like
grammatical and lexical aspects.
Halliday and Hasan state that cohesion is divided into two main parts:
grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion is the way that
grammatical features are attached together across sentences boundaries. It consists
of reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction. Lexical cohesion is the way
aspect of vocabulary link parts of texts together. It contains reiteration and
collocation. 7
Grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction)
holds texts together. Cohesion is also maintained by lexical cohesion (reiteration
and collocation).
This study focused on the cohesiveness of written text. In this case, the
writer is interested in doing the research on Editorial of The Jakarta Post a daily
English newspaper entitled Cohesion Analysis on The Jakarta Post’s Editorial for
some reasons. First, he likes reading as one of his hobbies especially reading an
English Newspaper because it can improve his language. Secondly, he considers
that an editorial of newspaper is one of the significant sides of the newspaper
because it contains some opinions of editors, newspaper comment, a newest issue
6
Ibid. p. 4
7
Ibid .p. 6
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comment, etc. Third, the writer is eager to know whether editorial as written text
can contribute in the matter of cohesion.
B. Focus of the Study
The study will be focused on the written text of The Jakarta Post’s
Editorial a daily English newspaper. Here the writer tries to analyze the sentences
in The Jakarta Post’s Editorial a daily English newspaper that are chosen in April
2009.
C. Research Question
. The writer will formulate two research questions according to this case
they are:
1. How cohesive devices are utilized in The Jakarta Post’s Editorial?
2. Which cohesive device has the highest occurrence in The Jakarta
Post’s Editorial?
D. Objective and of the Study.
Based on research question above, writer has several objectives of the
study:
1. To identify how cohesive devices are used in The Jakarta Post’s
Editorial.
2. To describe the cohesive device which has the highest occurrence
in The Jakarta Post’s Editorial.
E. Significance of the study
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Moreover, by doing this research, the writer intends to apply his
knowledge in linguistic study. Hopefully, this research can offer a new
contribution in linguistic study especially concerning cohesion. This research can
give a lot of benefit for students of English Language especially and it can be
useful contribution as a useful reference for the further research.
F. Research Methodology.
1. Method of Research
The writer uses descriptive qualitative method in his research which
describes the data analysis from English text in The Jakarta Post’s editorial.
2. The technique of data analysis
The data will be analyzed through descriptive qualitative method. The
writer writes the data which are collected from Jakarta Post, then he categorizes
the compiled data into several categories of cohesion devices. The next step is
analyzing the data.
3. Unit of Analysis.
The unit of this study is the English newspaper The Jakarta Post’s
Editorial, which are chosen in April 2009.
Text 1 (Going Ballistic) April 8, 2009.
Text 2 (Indonesian Decide Today) April 9, 2009
Text 3 (Thank you voters) April 10, 2009
Text 4 (Easter election) April 11, 2009
Text 5 (Celebrating democracy) April 12, 2009
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CHAPTER II
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. The concept of Cohesion
Before going to understand about the definition of cohesion, we should
know firstly some concepts related to the cohesion. Those mentioned concepts
are:
1 Text.
A text, according to Halliday and Hassan in their book ‘Cohesion in
English’ mentioned :
'A text is a unit of language in use. It is not a grammatical unit, like a

clause or a sentence; and it is not defined by its size. A text is sometimes
envisaged to be some kind of super-sentence, a grammatical unit that is
larger than a sentence but is related to a sentence in the same way that a
sentence is related to a clause, a clause to a group and so on: by
constituency the composition of larger units out of smaller ones. But this is
misleading. A text is not something that is like a sentence, only bigger; it is
something that differs from a sentence in kind.... A text does not consist of
sentences; it is realized by, or encoded in, sentences. If we understand it in
this way, we shall not expect to find the same kind of structural integration
among the parts of a text as we find among the parts of a sentence or
clause. The unity of a text is a unity of a different kind.
The upshot of the argument is that text does not have grammatical
structures (like sentences and smaller units), and text cannot be assessed with
regard to grammaticality. Instead, text convey meaning in contexts, and what
might be called discourse structure should be explained with reference to the
dynamics of the whole communication situation. to the processes of production
and comprehension which can hardly be treated adequately without recourse to
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the intentions, expectations and partially shared worlds Of the communicating
parties.
A text may be spoken or written, prose or verse, dialogue or monologue. 1
Written texts are different from spoken interaction. To compile a written text, a
writer has to think more, a writer should compose a well-formed text so that his or
her readers understand it easily. A text is considered to be well-formed one when
the clauses and sentences within the text link one to another. A well-formed text
will be created if the texts are mutually relevant to each other reveal major factors
about the standards of textuality. 2
2 Texture
A text must have Texture, as what Halliday and Hasan wrote in their book
the unity of text has strong connection with texture. The concept of texture is
entirely appropriate to express the property of being text. A text has texture, and
this is what distinguishes it from something that is not a text. It derivers that
texture from the fact that is function as a unity with respect to it environment. 3
Texture is shown by the relations of meaning which exist within a text. The study
on relation of meaning which exist within a text is then called cohesion. 4
1
Halliday and Hasan, cohesion in English (London: Longman Group Limited, 1976) p 1
2
Robert de Beaugande and Wolfgang Dressler, Introduction to Text Linguistics (London and New
York: Longman Group limited, 1981) p 19
3
Halliday and Hasan, (1976) op.cit 2
4
Ibid p 4
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3 Cohesion
The concept of cohesion is semantic one. It refers to relations of meaning
that exist within the text, it occurs where the interpretation of some element in the
discourse is dependent on that of another. 5 Cohesion is the connection which
results when the interpretation of a textual element is dependent on another
element in the text. 6 Cohesion is formal aspect of language within a text or
discourse. Cohesion is correlation between clauses within a text or discourse
grammatically or lexically. Cohesion is the internal aspect of a text and all the
internal aspects such us grammatical aspect and lexical one that develop the unity
of the text. 8 Cohesion is semantic concept that refers to language relevancy within
an utterance that formed a discourse. According to Halliday and Hassan that
cohesion is a set of possibility that exists in language to make a text as a unity. It
means that the relation of meaning grammatically or lexically should be formed in
unity that forms a text.
"Cohesion is expressed through the stratal organization of language.

Language can be explained as a multiple coding system comprising
three levels of coding or 'strata'. The semantic (meaning), the
lexicogrammatical (forms) and the phonological and orthographic
(expression). Meanings are realized (coded) as forms, and the forms are
realized in turn (recoded) as expressions. To put this in everyday
terminology, meaning is put into wording and wording into sound or
writing." 9
5
Ibid
6
Jan renkema, discourse studies : an introductory textbook (Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Publishing Co, 1993) p 35
8
Kushartanti. Et,al Pesona Bahasa, (Jakarta: PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2005) p. 96
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Halliday dan Hasan (1976:7) tried to see the cohesion from two sides:
grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion, and they state that cohesion is divided
into two main parts: grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. Grammatical
cohesion is the way that grammatical features are attached together across
sentences boundaries. It consists of reference, substitution, ellipsis and
conjunction. Lexical cohesion is the way aspect of vocabulary link parts of texts
together. It contains reiteration and collocation.
Grammatical cohesion (reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction)
holds texts together. Cohesion is also maintained by lexical cohesion. (reiteration
and collocation).
A.3.1 Grammatical cohesion
a. Reference
Reference concerns the relation between a discourse or text element and
preceding or following element. Reference deal with a semantic relationship.
There are certain items in every language which have property of reference.
Halliday and Hassan have special term for situational reference. They refer to as
EXPOHORA, or EXPHORIC reference, and they contrast it with ENDHOPORIC
as general term of reference within the text.
As general rule, therefore, reference items may be exophoric or
endophoric, and if endhoporic, they may be anaphoric or cataphoric. Exophora
signal that reference must be made to the context of situation. This exophora
(situational ) therefore does not contribute to the cohesion within a text because it
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is contextual reference. While endhopora is textual reference, it is an internal
cohesion within a text.
Scheme 1 : Reference
Reference
[situational] [textual]
Exophora
endophora
[to preceding text] [to following text]

Anaphora Cataphora
Here are the examples of anaphoric and cataphoric reference:
Anaphoric: Wash and core six cooking apples. Put them into a fireproof dish.
Cataphoric: I will tell it. I saw him come to your room together with his friend
tonight.
People make reference to something for their interpretation. In English
these items are personals, demonstratives and comparatives.
1. Personal reference
Personal reference is reference by means of function in the speech
situation, through the category of person. The category of personal reference
includes three classes of personal pronouns, possessive determiner (possessive
adjectives) and possessive pronoun. It can be seen in the table below:
Table 1 : Personal reference
Person Personal Possessive Possessive Pronoun

Pronoun Adjective
Speaker I, Me My Mine
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Addressee (s), You Your Yours
with/without other
person (s)
Speaker and other We, Us Our Ours
person (s)
Other person: He, Him His His
male
Other person: She, Her Her Hers
female
Other person: They, them Their Theirs
Objects
Objects, passage It Its Its
of text
This reference have the system known as person where it is used in the
special sense of role: first person, second person, and third person where three of
them can be singular or plural.
2. Demonstrative reference.
Demonstrative reference is identification of the distance as the scale of
where the referred item located. Demonstrative reference is divided into neutral
and selective demonstrative. The neutral is indicated by the and the selective
reference is divided into two types: participant and circumstantial.
Scheme 2 : Demonstrative reference
neutral the
near
Far (not near)

near: far:
selective singular: this that
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participant
plural: these those

place:
here there
circumstance
time: now then
Example: John bought a new Mercedez – That is what I want to buy.
3. Comparative reference
Comparative reference is indirect reference by means of identity or
similarity. This reference is divided into two: general and particular comparison.
The system as follows:
Scheme 3 : Comparative reference
identity same equal identical, identically
general similarity such similar, so similarly likewise
difference other different else, differently otherwise
Comparison
numerative more fewer less further additional; so-as-

equally-+ quantifier, eg: so many
particular
epithet comparative adjectives and adverb, eg:

better; so-as-more-less-equally-+
comparative adjectives and adverbs, eg:
equally good.
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One example, the word different in the sentence " They were two different things"
means different to each other.
b. Substitution.
Another kind of grammatical cohesion is substitution. Substitution is a
relation between linguistic items or it is as replacement of one item by another.
Substitution, on the other hand, is relation within the text. A substitute is a sort of
counter which is used in place of the repetition of particular item. For example, in
a. My axe is too blunt. I must get a sharper one.

b. You think Joan already knows?- I think everybody does.
One and does are both substitutes: one substitutes for axe, and does for
knows, and it would be entirely possible to ‘replace’ one by axe and does by
knows. 10
Since substitution is grammatical relation, a relation in the wording rather than in
meaning, the different types of substitution are defined grammatically rather than
semantically. The criterion is the grammatical function of substitute item. In
English, the substitute may function as a noun, as a verb, or as a clause. To these
correspond the three types of substitution: Nominal, verbal, and clausal.
1. Nominal substitution.
Nominal substitution is substitution of nominal with an item that is
appropriate with the nominal genus. It is commonly expressed with the substitute
one/ones (singular and plural) and same. One is not only as a substitution but also
10
Halliday and Hasan, (1976) op.cit 89
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it is as a personal person and one is also as cardinal number. The item same,
occurs as cohesive element of the comparative type. In such instances, some is
reference item. But there is another cohesive use of same, as nominal substitute,
typically accompanied by the. Unlike one, the same presupposes an entire nominal
group including any modifying elements. For examples:
1. These biscuits are stale. Get some fresh ones.

2. I lost my way in the galleries – the same thing happened to me.
The meaning ‘I lost my way in the galleries’.
Hence the same, although itself a form of nominal substitute, is used as a
means of substituting a nominal or other element in the process as a whole,
including the process itself. 11
2. Verbal substitution.
The verbal substitute in English is do. This operates as Head of a verbal
group, in the place that is occupied by the lexical verb; and its position is always
final in the group. Here are two examples from Alice; in both, the substitute is the
word that has the form do (not did or don’t)
a. … the words did not come the same as they used to do.
b. I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I
don’t believe you do either!’
The first do, in (a), substitutes for come; that in (b) substitutes for know the
meaning of half those long words. 12
3. Clausal substitution.
11
Ibid 109
12
Ibid p 112.
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There is one further types of substitution in which what is presupposed is
not an element within the clauses but an entire clause. The words used as
substitutes are so and not. For examples:
1. Is there going to be an earthquake? – It says so.
Here the so presupposes the whole of the clause there is going to be an
earthquake, and the contrastive environment is provided by the says which is
outside it.
2. We should recognize the place when we come to it. –

Yes, supposing not: then what do we do?
Here not substitutes for we do not recognize the place when we come to it.
There are three environments in which clausal substitution takes place:
report, condition and modality. In each of these environments it may take either of
two forms, positive or negative; the positive is expressed by so, the negative by
not. 13
c. Ellipsis.
Ellipsis is the omission of a word or part of a sentence, 14 it is exactly the
same as presupposition by substitution, except that in substitution an explicit
‘counter’ is used, eg: one or do as a place – marker for what is presupposed,
whereas is ellipsis nothing is inserted into the slot. That is why Halliday and
Hasan say that ellipsis can be regarded as substitution by zero. 15
For example,
Joan brought some carnations and Catherine some sweet peas.
13
Ibid p 131
14
Jan renkema, discourse studies (1993), op.cit. 38.
15
Halliday and Hasan, (1976) op.cit .143
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The structure of the second clause is Subject and Complement. There is no
possible alternative here; the second clause can be interpreted only as Catherine
brought some sweet peas. This structure normally appears only in clauses in
which at least one element, the Predicator ( brought ) is presupposed to be
supplied from the preceding clause. Actually the normal sentence should be Joan
brought some carnations, and Catherine brought some sweet peas.
There are three types of ellipsis: Nominal ellipsis, Verbal ellipsis and
clausal ellipsis.
1) Nominal ellipsis.
Nominal ellipsis means the omission of the nominal group or ellipsis
within the nominal group.
For example:
These students are clever. Those are stupid.
If we want to fill out an elliptical nominal group, the example above will
be these students are clever. Those students are stupid.
2) Verbal ellipsis.
Verbal ellipsis means ellipsis within the verbal group. For example in
Have you been swimming?- Yes I have.
The verbal group in the answer have ( yes I have ) instances of verbal ellipsis. It
can be said to ‘stand for’ Yes I have been swimming, and there is no possibility of
‘filling out’ with any other items.
3) Clausal ellipsis.
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Clausal ellipsis means ellipsis within the clause. The clause in English,
considered as the expression of the various speech functions, such as statement,
question, response and so on, has two part structure consisting of MODAL
ELEMENT plus PROPOSITIONAL ELEMENT, for example
The Duke was going to plant a row of poplars in the park.

(modal element) (propositional element)
What was the Duke going to do? – Plant a row of poplars in the park.
In the answer, the modal element is omitted: the subject and, within the
verbal group, the finite operator was. Hence there is operator ellipsis in the verbal
group: (What was the Duke going to do? – The Duke was going to plant a row of
poplars in the park). In other circumstance, there may be ellipsis of the
propositional element: (What was the Duke going to plant a row of poplars in the
park? The Duke was going to plant a row of poplars in the park).
d. Conjunction.
The fourth and final type of cohesive relation in the grammar is
conjunction. Conjunction is the relationship which indicates how the subsequent
sentence or clause should be linked to the preceding or the following (parts of the)
sentence. This is usually achieved by the use of conjunction. And the relationship
in conjunction can be hypotactic (which combine a main clause with subordinate

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clause or phrase) or paratactic (which have two main clauses). Conjunction is
rather different in nature from the other cohesive relations, from both reference,
16
Jan renkema, discourse studies (1993), loc. cit.
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on the one hand, and substitution and ellipsis on the other. It is not simply an
anaphoric relation. 17 Halliday and Hasan classified four types of conjunction there
are: additive, adversative, causal and temporal. 18
1) Additive Conjunction.
Additive conjunction contributes to give an additional information without
changing information in the previously clause or phrase. Here are some items of
the conjunction relations of additive type: and, and also, further (more), moreover,
besides that, by the way, or, nor, neither etc. for examples:
a. Besides being mean, he is also hateful.
b. He no longer goes to campus and is planning to look for a job.
The conjunction relationship in (a) is hypotactic (which combine a main
clause with subordinate clause or phrase) and in (b) is paratactic (which have two
main clauses).
2) Adversative Conjunction.
The basic meaning of adversative relation is ‘contrary to expectation’. The
expectation may be derived from the content of what is being said, or from
communication process. 19 Here are the conjunctive relations of the adversative
type: however, but, in fact, nevertheless, instead etc. For example:
She failed. However, she is tried her best.
In this sense, the meaning is ‘as against’. This is normally a true adversative and it
can be expressed in although clause. ‘She failed, although she is tried her best’
3) Causal Conjunction.
17
18
Ibid. p.238
19
18
Causal Conjunction expresses “result, reason and purpose”, and the simple
form of causal relation is expressed by so, thus, hence, therefore, consequently,
accordingly, and number of expressions like as a result (of that), in consequence
(of that), because of that. All these regularly take place in the initial clause or
sentence and they express causality. For example:
… she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she
got to work at once to eat some of other bit
4) Temporal conjunction.
The relation between the theses of two successive sentences that may be
simply one of sequence in time. This temporal relation is expressed in its simplest
form by then.
I heard Mr. Andre’s lecture. Then, I am inspired to conduct the action of selling.
Besides then there are still many sequential senses like next, afterwards,
after that, soon, subsequently and number of other expressions.
A.3.2 Lexical Cohesion
Lexical cohesion does not deal with grammatical and semantic connections
but with connections based on the word used. Two types of lexical cohesion can
be distinguished: reiteration and collocation. 20
a. Reiteration.
20
Jan renkema, (1993), op.cit. 39.
19
Reiteration is a form of lexical cohesion which involves the repetition of a
lexical item, at one end of the scale; the use of the general word to refer back to a
lexical item, at the other end of the scale; and a number of things in between the
use of a synonym, near-synonym, or superordinate. 21
In general, according to definition above reiteration is divided into
following four types:
1) Repetition.
All of the lexical cohesion devices, the most common form is repetition,
which is simply repeated words or word phrases, threading through the text. 22
For example:
A conference will be held on national environmental policy. At this

conference, the issue of salinity will play an important role.
From the example above the word ‘conference’ is repeated twice.
2) Synonyms.
Instead of repeating the exact same word, a speaker or writer can use
another word that means the same or almost the same. This is a synonym. Here,
the example of a synonym:
A conference will be held on national environmental policy. This

environmental symposium will be held primarily a conference dealing
with water.
Here we will see that ‘conference’ and ‘environmental symposium’ are
two ways of referring to the event.
3) Superordinates.
21
22
Joan Cutting, Pragmatics and Discourse A resource book for students (London and New York:
Routledge,2002) p 13.
20
We can use what we know about superordinates to help explain the
absurdity of the rhyme:
The elephant is a bonny bird.

It flits from bough to bough
It makes its nest in a rhubarb tree
And whistles like a cow.
Of course, ‘bird’ is wrong superordinate for ‘elephant’, because ‘bird’
includes ‘seagull’, ‘blackbird’, ‘hummingbird’ and so on, and ‘elephant’ comes
under superordinate ‘animal’, which includes ’giraffe’, ‘cow’, ‘dog’ and so on.
Even these can be superordinates on a lower level, for example ‘dog’ is the overall
term including ‘labrador’, ‘poodle’, Irish wolfhound’ and so on.
4) General words
The last form of lexical cohesion that we are going to cover here is
general word. These can be general nouns, as in ‘thing’, ‘stuff’, ‘place’, ‘person’,
‘women’ and ‘man’, or general verbs, as in ‘do’ and ‘happen’. In a way, the
general word is a higher level superordinate: it is umbrella term that can cover
almost everything. 23 In the following, Peter a 49-year-old chemist, uses the
general noun ‘place’ to refer back either to the ‘poly’ or to the city:
and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for, you

know, all the usual reason, reasonable place, reasonable course,
reasonable this a reasonable that term to do computer science which of
course all the kids want to do now term twentieth century- no it isn’t it’s a
sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver.
b. Collocation.
23
Ibid. p.15
21
The second type of lexical cohesion is collocation. It deals with the
relationship between words on basis of the fact that these often occur in the same
surrounding. Some examples are:
‘congress and politician or college and study’
Collocation is part of lexical cohesion that is achieved through the
association of lexical items that regularly co-occur. Collocation is regular
combination of words in which to fulfill the meaning, these words must occur
together such us black coffee instead of thick coffee and drink medicine instead
of eat medicine.
Collocation is the reoccurrence of an item in the text but the repeated item
is not exactly the same with the referred item, but the item in some way is
typically much the same with one another because they tend to occur in similar
environment. Halliday and Hassan state that collocation is the various lexical
relations that do not depend on referential identity and not of the form of
reiteration accompanied by "the" or demonstrative." 24 And collocation includes
pairs of words drawn from the same series and part to whole also part to part. In
other words, collocation is a certain word that can only occur with certain word.
Pair of words that have opposite meaning.
For example: basement … roof, roads … rail, red … green.
Pair of two words drawn from the same series.
For example: dollar … cent, north … south, colonel … brigadier.
Part to whole.
24
22
For example: car … brakes, box … lid.
Part to part.
For example: mouth … chin, verse … chorus (on refrain)
One of the reason is that based on the observation on the theory needed for
this research, the writer thought that the theory proposed by Halliday and Hassan
have been the most suitable for this research.
CHAPTER III
RESEARCH FINDING
A. Data Description
This chapter will explain analysis of five texts of the Jakarta Post’s
editorial with applying the Halliday and Hasan’s concept of cohesion, according
to them cohesion here is divided into two aspects; grammatically and lexically.
The unifying text is seen from the connection among sentences expressed through
grammatical agencies and lexicon elements
Text 1
Grammatical cohesion
1. Reference
a) Personal reference = 12 items

b) Demonstrative reference = 2 items
c) Comparative reference = 2 items
2. Ellipsis
a) Nominal ellipsis = 1 item

2. Conjunction
a) Additive Conjunction = 3 items
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b) Adversative Conjunction = 2 items
c) Temporal conjunction = 1 item
Lexical Cohesion
1. Reiteration
a) Repetition = 4 words repeated
b) Synonym = 1 item
c) Superordinat = 1 item
d) General Word = 1 item
2. Collocation = 1 item.
Text 2.
1. Reference

2. Substitution
a) Nominal substitution = 1 item
3. Ellipsis
a) Nominal ellipsis = 2 item
3. Conjunction
b) Adversative Conjunction = 3 items.
Lexical Cohesion
1. Reiteration
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b) Synonym = 1 item.
2. Collocation = 1 item.
Text 3
1. Reference

2. Ellipsis
a) Nominal ellipsis = 1 item.
3. Conjunction

b) Adversative Conjunction = 3 items.
Lexical Cohesion
1. Reiteration
a) Repetition = 7 words repeated.
Text 4
1. Reference

c) Comparative reference = 1 item
2. Conjunction
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a) Additive Conjunction =1 item
Lexical Cohesion
1. Reiteration

b) Superordinat = 1 item
c) General Word = 1 item
Collocation = 1 item.
Text 5
1. Reference

2. Ellipsis
a) Nominal ellipsis = 1 item.

3. Conjunction

b) Adversative Conjunction = 5 items
Lexical Cohesion
1. Reiteration

b) Synonym = 1 item
c) Superordinat = 1 item
d) General Word = 1 item
Collocation = 1 item
Statistical Table
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No Cohesion Text 1 Text 2 Text 3 Text 4 Text 5 Total
Grammatical
1 Reference 16 items 16 items 16 items 12 items 14 items 74 items
2 Substitution 1 item 1 item
3 Ellipsis 1 item 2 item 1 item 1 item 5 items
4 Conjunction 7 items 5 items 5 items 1 item 8 items 26 items
Lexical
5 Repetition 8 words 10 word 7 words 8 words 7 words 40 words
6 Synonym 1 item 1 item 1 item 3 items
7 Superordinat 1 item 1 item 1 item 3 items
8 General word 1 item 1 item 1 item 3 items
9 Collocation 1 item 1 item 1 item 1 item 4 items
Total 159 items
Percentage of every Cohesion:
74
1.) X 100 % = 46, 65 %
159
1
2.) X 100 % = 0, 62 %
159
5
3.) X 100 % = 3, 14 %
159
26
4.) X 100 % = 16, 35 %
159
40
X 100 % = 25, 15 %
159 27
5.)
3
6.) X 100 % = 1, 88 %
159
3
7.) X 100 % = 1, 88 %
159
3
8.) X 100 % = 1, 88 %
159
4
9.) X 100 % = 2, 51 %
159
8 9
7
6
Note explanation:
1. Reference
2. Substitution
5 3. Ellipsis
1 4. Conjunction
5. Repetition
6. Synonym
7. Superordinat
8. General
Word
9. Collocation
4 3 2
These are the analysis of five texts of the Jakarta Post’s editorial.
B. Data Analysis
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1 Text 1 (Going ballistic)
a) Grammatical cohesion.
1. Reference
a. Personal reference
The personal reference items which occur in the text 1 are personal
pronoun as a subject it, we, they, and possessive determiner (possessive
adjectives) its and their.
1) S.3: … then Pyongyang decides to rattle its saber for no apparent

reason other than to trade in the currency of fear. (its refers to
Pyongyang)
2) S.4: A hermit state which is showing the world that its
contribution to the Asian family of nations…. (its refers to a
hermit state)
3) S.6: … Pyongyang defiantly sends the strongest message that it
does not want to be a responsible party to this idealistic dream. (it
refers to Pyongyang)
4) S.7: It had every intention of making Barak Obama and other
nations in the region go ballistic, excuse the pun. (it refers to
singular non person as a situation)
5) S.10: … while North Korea may have fissile material to
theoretically make nuclear bombs, it does not have the technology
(yet) to miniaturize a nuclear device to fit into a warhead. (it refers
to North Korea)
6) S.11: We have never been proponents of the neo-con projection of
an ‘axis of evil’. (We refers to the writer)
7) S.12: We believe that states do have the right to develop nuclear
or rocket technology for peaceful purposes. (We refers to the
writer)
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8) S.15: It neither has the same level of economic affluence nor has
it reached the level of technological development of Iran. ( it
refers to the sentence before North Korea)
9) S.16: We cannot understand the necessity for Pyongyang to
develop such technology… (We refers to the writer)
10) S.16: … Pyongyang to develop such technology at a time when
its people are known to among the poorest in Asia. (its refers to
Pyongyang)
11) S.19: It was sending a clear message to gain the attention of the
new US administration and the conservative government in
Seoul that it has reversed the rapprochement with previous
administrations. (it refers to the new US administration and the
conservative government)
12) S.20: … which Pyongyang used in 2006 when it held a nuclear
test that became the catalyst to start the six-party talks. (it refers to
Pyongyang)
13) S.24: But true friends do not act selfishly in their community.
(their refers to the preceding sentence, Indonesia and North Korea)
14) S.25: They do not needlessly make waves in calm waters… (they
refers to the preceding sentence, Indonesia and North Korea).
Its (S.3, 4) and their (S.24) are possessive determiner, its refers to
Pyongyang as a name of city in North Korea and also refers to a hermit state, and
their refers to the preceding sentence, Indonesia and North Korea.
There are personal pronoun as a subject it, we, and they. It (S.6) refers to
Pyongyang, it (S.7) refers to singular non person as a situation, it (S.10) refers to
North Korea, it (S.15) refers to the sentence before North Korea, it (S.19) refers to
the new US administration and the conservative government, and it (S.20) refers
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to Pyongyang. We (S.11), (S.12) and (S.16) refers to the writer. They (S.25) they
refers to the preceding sentence, Indonesia and North Korea.
b. Demonstrative reference
The demonstrative reference agencies that appear in the text are neutral
demonstrative represented by definite article the, and the selective participant
demonstrative represented by this.
1) S.6: Just when the new leader of the world’s superpower seemed
ready to usher hope of a nuclear free world, Pyongyang defiantly
sends the strongest message that it does not want to be a
responsible party to this idealistic dream.
The in (1) is signal of identity or identifiability, showing for identifying
new leader of the world’s superpower that is Barack Obama and the here is
cathaporic it means that the meaning is always in the following text. And this
refers to something that has been said before, it is hope of a nuclear free world.
2) S.20: This is the same modus operandi which Pyongyang used in

2006 when it held a nuclear test that became the catalyst to start
the six-party talks.
This refers to something that has been said before, it is about what
Pyongyang has been used and done in 2006.
c. Comparative reference.
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The comparative reference in text (1) is expressed only by general
comparison through only identity the same.
1) S.15: It neither has the same level of economic affluence nor has it
reached the level of technological development of Iran.
2) S.20: This is the same modus operandi which Pyongyang used in
2006 when it held a nuclear test that became the catalyst to start the
six-party talks.
Ellipsis.
There are no substitution items that are found in text (1) but there is one
ellipsis item appears in the text. It is only nominal ellipsis.
1) S.21: North Korea wants something, wait for the shopping list.
If we want to fill out an elliptical nominal group, the sentence above will
be “North Korea wants something, North Korea wait for the shopping list”.
Conjunction.
a. additive conjunction.
Additive conjunction items which appear in the text are and, neither and nor.:
1) S.3: In times of economic crisis when even the global middle class is
pushed towards poverty, and the poor thrown into destitution…
And as a conjunction relation, the situation is quite different, the relation is
between sentences, and sentences follow one another one at a time as the text
unfolds.
2) S.15: It neither has the same level of economic affluence nor has it
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3) S.25: They do not needlessly make waves in calm waters, nor do they
thrive on brinkmanship and the use of military threats in order to squeeze
concessions from others.
Either and nor are used as cohesive items, they often seem to have the sense of
“there is something more to be said”.
b. adversative conjunction
Adversative conjunction item which appears in the text is only but:
1) S.14: … But North Korea is not Iran.

2) S.24: … But true friends do not act selfishly in their community.
In this sense, the meaning but is ‘as against’.
c. Temporal conjunction.
There are no causal conjunction in the text, but there is only one temporal
conjunction that is then.
1. 1) S.3: In times of economic crisis when even the global middle

class is pushed towards poverty, and the poor thrown into
destitution, then Pyongyang decides to rattle its saber for no
apparent reason other than to trade in the currency of fear.
Then is the relation between those successive sentences and it is one of sequence
in time: the one is subsequent to the other, the sentence after then is related to the
preceding sentence.
b) Lexical cohesion.
1. Reiteration.
Moving on to lexical cohesion the first one is reiteration, the most used
device is repetition. This threads right through this editorial text and can be
demonstrated all at once like this:
Going Ballistic
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1. A thinly disguised missile test.
2. An unsettling state of regional affairs.
3. In times of economic crisis when even the global middle class is
pushed towards poverty, and the poor thrown into destitution, then
Pyongyang decides to rattle its saber for no apparent reason other
than to trade in the currency of fear.
4. A hermit state which is showing the world that its contribution to
the Asian family of nations gripped with financial turmoil is
nothing more than pointless paranoia.
5. Pyongyang’s ‘satellite launch’ served no purpose other than to
satisfy the whim of a desperate regime to gain international and
domestic recognition.
6. Just when the new leader of the world’s superpower seemed ready
to usher hope of a nuclear free world, Pyongyang defiantly sends
the strongest message that it does not want to be a responsible
party to this idealistic dream.
7. It had every intention of making Barak Obama and other nations in
the region go ballistic, excuse the pun.
8. Since Sunday’s launch, public debate in Japan is verging on
strengthening pre-emptive strike capability.
9. Instead of looking at commonalities and cooperative solutions to
the global economic downturn, international leaders are instead
beset with a foreign policy crisis in an area which is home to more
than one sixth of the global economy.
10. The only reassurance is that the test did not seem to be completely
successful and that while North Korea may have fissile material to
theoretically make nuclear bombs, it does not have the technology
(yet) to miniaturize a nuclear device to fit into a warhead.
11. We have never been proponents of the neo-con projection of an
‘axis of evil’.
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12. We believe that states do have the right to develop nuclear or
rocket technology for peaceful purposes.
13. Iran is one case in point where the debate could go either way.
14. But North Korea is not Iran.
15. It neither has the same level of economic affluence nor has it
16. We cannot understand the necessity for Pyongyang to develop
such technology at a time when its people are known to among the
poorest in Asia.
17. The reasons are simple ‘realpolitik’, domestically and
internationally.
18. Whether or not the missile was launching a satellite, one thing is
for sure:
19. It was sending a clear message to gain the attention of the new US
administration and the conservative government in Seoul that it has
reversed the rapprochement with previous administrations.
20. This is the same modus operandi which Pyongyang used in 2006
when it held a nuclear test that became the catalyst to start the six-
party talks.
21. North Korea wants something, wait for the shopping list.
22. Indonesia has been a consistent friend of North Korea.
23. A relationship bound by history by the founding fathers of the two
nations.
24. But true friends do not act selfishly in their community.
25. They do not needlessly make waves in calm waters, nor do they
thrive on brinkmanship and the use of military threats in order to
squeeze concessions from others.
26. We can urge calm and a return to diplomatic chatter, but it’s really
time for Indonesia to send a firm message back: ‘Keep this up, and
you will lose the few true friends you have left’.
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This analysis becomes clear that some repetition stretches across several
sentences, as in ‘Pyongyang’ (in sentences 3, 5, 6…), The writer chooses to repeat
the nouns not verbs, and the noun repeated is an object of the text. The noun
‘Pyongyang’ sets the setting of place and then ‘Iran’, ‘North Korea’, and
‘Indonesia’ introduce the background of the text.
There is one synonym, the synonym between phrase of currency of fear
and pointless paranoia (in sentences 3 and 4) that currency of fear and pointless
paranoia are two ways of referring to the frightfulness.
And there is one superordinate “states” (in sentence 12) is needed here
so that its identity can be left open; it could be ‘Iran’, ‘North Korea’, Indonesia.
(in sentences 13, 14, 22).
The last form of lexical cohesion that the writer is going to cover text 1 is
general word. And it is general noun and he uses the general noun ‘Nation’ (in
sentence 7) to refer back either to the ‘states’, (in sentence 12) ‘Iran’, ‘North
Korea’, Indonesia. (in sentences 13, 14, 22)..
2. Collocation
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The second one of lexical cohesion is collocation, and it appears in
sentence 1 missile test instead of nuclear test in sentence 20. it is a pair of two
words drawn from the same series.
2. Text 2 (Indonesia decides today)
a). Grammatical cohesion.
1. Reference
pronoun as a subject it, we, they, and as an object them and possessive determiner
(possessive adjectives) its, our and their.
1. S.2 and 3: Millions of Indonesians across the archipelago today

will go to polling stations to elect their representatives… Their
decision will determine the fate of the nation… (their refers to
millions of Indonesians)
2. S.4: In July, we will go back to the polling stations to vote for a
president and vice president. (We refers to the writer)
3. S.6: This will be the third truly free and fair election Indonesia has
held since it got rid of dictator Soeharto… . (it refers to Indonesia)
4. S.7: The consensus nationwide since then is that Indonesia should
build this nation – in spite of its diversity in race… (its refers to
Indonesia)
5. S.9: With the first two elections under its belt, Indonesia has
earned the accolade as the third largest democracy in the world
after India and the United States. (its refers to Indonesia)
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6. S.11: Admittedly, we do not yet have a perfect democracy, but as
long as each election is an improvement over the previous one, we
should be content. (We refers to the writer)
7. S.12: After all, we are still essentially experimenting with our
democracy. (We and our refer to the writer)
8. S.17: From this year, voters have the power to directly elect their
representatives in the legislatures. (their refers to the voters)
9. S.18 and 19: This weakens the hands of political parties but brings
together elected politicians and their constituents. Now, they are
more accountable and must ensure their loyalty first and foremost
is with the people, and not with their party. (their and they refer to
political parties).
10. S.20: but if we go by the elections in 1999 and 2004, which were
also chaotic, things have a way of resolving themselves in
Indonesia. (them refers to Indonesian people themselves).
There are personal person as a subject it (S.6) refers to Indonesia, we (S.4),

(S.11) and (S.12) refer to the writer and they (S.19) refers to political parties, and
personal person as an object them (S.20) refers to Indonesian people themselves.
Personal reference as a possessive determiner its (S.7) and (S.9) refer to

Indonesia, their (S.2 and 3) refers to millions of Indonesia and our (S.12) refers to
the writer.
b Demonstrative reference
demonstrative represented by this and selective circumstance demonstrative
represented by now
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1) S.5 and 6: … this vote is significant for Indonesia in many
respects. This will be the third truly free and fair election Indonesia
has held since it got rid of dictator Soeharto in 1998…
This refers to something that has been said before, it is representative and
legislature election in Indonesia.
2) S.3: Their decision will determine the fate of the nation for the
next five years and beyond.
3) S.8: For 30 years Soeharto tried ruling the country the
authoritarian way but in the end the regime became so cor-rupt that
all the gains made in economic
The in (3 and 8) is signal of identity or identifiability, showing for identifying the
nation or country, it means Indonesia.
4) S.18: This weakens the hands of political parties but brings

together elected politicians and their constituents.
This refers to the sentence that has been said before, it is about voters have the
power to directly elect their representatives in the legislatures.
5) S.19: Now, they are more accountable and must ensure their
loyalty first and foremost is with the people, and not with their
party.
The comparative reference in text (2) is expressed only by particular
comparison through only numerative more.
party.
The meaning of more is numerative comparison as a compounded.
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3.2.1.2 Substitution
There is one substitution item appears in the text. It is only nominal
substitution.
1) S.11: Admittedly, we do not yet have a perfect democracy, but as

long as each election is an improvement over the previous one, we
should be content.
Here one is a form of nominal substitute, it is used as a means of substituting a
nominal item, it is election.
3.2.1.3 Ellipsis.
There is one ellipsis item appears in the text. It is only nominal ellpsis.
1) S.18: This weakens the hands of political parties but brings

together elected politicians and their constituents.
be “This weakens the hands of political parties but this brings together elected
politicians and their constituents”.
party
If we want to fill out an elliptical nominal group, the sentence above will be
“Now, they are more accountable and they must ensure their loyalty first and
foremost is with the people, and not with their party”
3.2.1.4 Conjunction.
a. additive conjunction.
Additive conjunction item which appears in the text is only and.
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1) S.6: This will be the third truly free and fair election Indonesia has held
since it got rid of dictator Soeharto in 1998 and ushered in a new era of
democracy .
2) Now, they are more accountable and must ensure their loyalty first and
foremost is with the people, and not with their party
unfolds.
b. adversative conjunction
Adversative conjunction item which appears in the text is only but:
1) S.8: … For 30 years Soeharto tried ruling the country the authoritarian
way but in the end the regime became so cor-rupt that all the gains made
in economic development were virtually wiped out during the 1997/98
Asian economic crisis.
2) S.11: Admittedly, we do not yet have a perfect democracy, but as long as
each election is an improvement over the previous one, we should be
content.
3) S.18: This weakens the hands of political parties but brings together
elected politicians and their constituents.
c. Causal conjunction.
There are no temporal conjunction in the text, but there is only one causal
conjunction that is so.
1) S.12 and 13: After all, we are still essentially experimenting with
our democracy. So what else is new with this year’s parliamentary
election, one might ask.
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So here means as for the reason for the previous sentence this is about democracy
in Indonesia.
Lexical cohesion.
3.2.2.1 Reiteration.
Moving on to lexical cohesion, the most used device is repetition. This
threads right through this editorial text and can be demonstrated all at once like
this:
Indonesia decides today
1. It’s decision time for Indonesia.

2. Millions of Indonesians across the archipelago today will go to
polling stations to elect their representatives at the national and
local legislatures.
3. Their decision will determine the fate of the nation for the next
five years and beyond.
4. In July, we will go back to the polling stations to vote for a
president and vice president.
5. Putting aside the figures – over 171 million registered voters,
about 500,000 polling stations, 44 political parties and over one
million candidates vying for more than 50,000 seats – this vote is
significant for Indonesia in many respects.
6. This will be the third truly free and fair election Indonesia has held
since it got rid of dictator Soeharto in 1998 and ushered in a new
era of democracy.
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7. The consensus nationwide since then is that Indonesia should
build this nation – in spite of its diversity in race, ethnicity, culture,
language and religion – on the basis of democracy.
8. For 30 years Soeharto tried ruling the country the authoritarian
way but in the end the regime became so cor-rupt that all the gains
made in economic development were virtually wiped out during
the 1997/98 Asian economic crisis.
9. With the first two elections under its belt, Indonesia has earned the
accolade as the third largest democracy in the world after India
and the United States.
10. Among the predominantly Muslim countries, Indonesia is the
largest democracy in the world, disproving the widely held belief
that Islam and democracy just don’t get along.
11. Admittedly, we do not yet have a perfect democracy, but as long as
each election is an improvement over the previous one, we should
be content.
12. After all, we are still essentially experimenting with our
democracy.
13. So what else is new with this year’s parliamentary election, one
might ask.
14. This is the first time voters have had a greater say on who will sit
in the legislatures – the House of Representatives and the Regional
Representatives Council – at the national level and the provincial
and regental legislative councils.
15. Courtesy of the Constitutional Court, the candidates with the most
votes will take the seats. The court struck out at a clause in the
election law that stated the seat should go to candidate at the top of
the winning party’s list.
16. This decision is consistent with the trend of organizing direct
elections for president and vice president, provincial governors,
regency chiefs and city mayors, which was introduced in 2004.
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17. From this year, voters have the power to directly elect their
representatives in the legislatures.
18. This weakens the hands of political parties but brings together
elected politicians and their constituents.
19. Now, they are more accountable and must ensure their loyalty first
and foremost is with the people, and not with their party.
20. There have been rumors predicting massive protests following the
election, especially with problems over the voters’ list, but if we go
by the elections in 1999 and 2004, which were also chaotic, things
have a way of resolving themselves in Indonesia.
21. We expect this year will be no different, because at the end of the
day, everyone knows that the cost of failure would be horrendous,
not just financially, but also in terms of political stability.
22. Let’s preserve the festive mood, cast our ballots today and accept
the outcome, regardless of whether it meets our own expectations.
sentences, as in ‘decision’ (in sentences 1, 3 and 16), ‘Indonesia’ (in sentences 1,
6, 7…) ‘polling station’ (in sentences 2, 4 and 5), ‘voters’ (in sentences 5 and 14)
‘democracy’ (in sentences 6 and 7), ‘Soeharto’ (in sentences 6 and 8), ‘election;
(in sentences 9 and 11) the writer chooses to repeat the nouns. The noun
‘Indonesia’ sets the setting of place in the text, and the nouns such as election,
polling station, democracy etc are the topics of the text.
There is one synonym, and there are no superordinates and general
word. The synonym between verbs to elect and to vote (in sentences 2 and 4) that
to elect and to vote are two ways of referring to the action.
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3.2.2.2 Collocation
sentence 1 Indonesia and election in sentence 11 it is part to part, because
election is part of Indonesia.
3. Text 3 (Thank you voters)
1. Reference
pronoun as a subject they, we and as an object them and possessive determiner
(possessive adjectives) its, our and their.
1. S.1: … Indonesian voters proved once again, that our people -

most of them are poor in terms of education and income - are rich
in terms of morality, peacefulness…(our and them refer to
Indonesian voter)
2. S.2: They are great voters because they acted as responsible
citizens. (they refers to Indonesian voter).
3. S.4: There have been so many legislators both at national and
regional level who had been jailed for abusing their power and
enriching their own pockets. (their refers to many legislators).
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4. S.8: Voters apparently are more enthusiastic about the presidential
elections, because they have more hope in a president. (they refers
to voter).
5. S.10: … because the losers and those who claim to be the victims
of election malpractices may use all possible means to channel
their frustrations. (their refers to the losers).
6. S.11: But as many of them have spent a lot of money on the
campaigns, they now have less with which to finance their
protests. (them, they and their refer to the losers).
7. S.13: Trust in political parties and politicians is also at its lowest
level since democracy was restored. (its refers to Trust in political
parties and politicians).
8. S.14: In 1999, the world applauded Indonesian voters after we had
a truly well organized, democratic and peaceful election, just one
year after we rid ourselves of Soeharto after 32 years of
authoritarian rule,… (we refers to the writer represents Indonesian
people)
9. S.14: … during which voters never had a genuine chance to
exercise their constitutional rights to elect others or to stand for
election. (their refers to voters).
10. S.15: In 2004 when voters directly elected their president, we also
achieved a first for Indonesia. (their refers to voters).
11. S.19: The losers and the winners need to act as true statesmen no
matter how bitter or how glorious they feel in facing their new
fate. (their refers to the losers and the winners).
There are personal person as a subject they (S.2) refers to Indonesian

voter, they (S.8) refers to voters, they (S.11) refers to the losers,we (S.14) refers to
the write who represents Indonesian people and personal person as an object them
(S.11) refers to the losers.
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Personal reference as a possessive determiner its (S.13) refers to Trust in
political parties and politicians, their (S.4) refers to many legislators, they (S.10
and 11) refers to the losers, they (S.14) refers to voters, they (S.19) refers to the
losers and the winners and our (S.1) refers to Indonesian voter.
demonstrative represented by this and those.
1) S.3 and 4: Our leaders and political elites should feel ashamed at
the betrayal of the nation by the political class. There have been so
many legislators both at national and regional level who had been
jailed for abusing their power and enriching their own pockets.
Here the is cathaporic, it means that the meaning of betrayal is in the following
text, pointing forward to who had been jailed for abusing their power and
enriching their own pockets.
2) S.5: There are too many politicians who are still untouchable.
There is little hope the next legislators will not repeat this corrupt
and abusive behavior.
This refers to sentence that has been said before, the corrupt represented by
“There have been so many legislators both at national and regional level who had
been jailed for abusing their power and enriching their own pockets.” (In
sentence 4).
3) S.10: There is fear that there may be some violence because the
losers and those who claim to be the victims of election
malpractices may use all possible means to channel their
frustrations.
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Here those refers to the losers.
The comparative reference in text (3) is expressed only by particular comparison
through only numerative more and epithet (…-er).
1) S.7: In the next few days, we will get a much clearer picture of the
victors in this election, and who will contest the July presidential
elections.
2) S.8: Voters apparently are more enthusiastic about the presidential
elections, because they have more hope in a president, who will
lead this nation for the next five years.
Clearer is comparative adjective and more is compounded.
3.3.1.2 Ellipsis
There are no substitution items that are found In text (3) but there is one
ellipsis item appear in the text. It is only nominal ellipsis.
1) S.1: most of them are poor in terms of education and income - are
rich in terms of morality, peacefulness, support for democracy and
in taking civic responsibility.
be “most of them are poor in terms of education and income, most of them are
rich in terms of morality, peacefulness, support for democracy and in taking civic
responsibility”
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The conjunction items which occur in the text 3 are additive conjunction
and adversative conjunction. There are no causal and temporal conjunction in text
3.
a. Additive conjunction.
1) S.1: No matter how chaotic the administrative preparations for the

April 9 legislative election, and no matter how low the trust of the
voters for the contestants in the elections
2) S.20: But we hope that problems will be resolved, and peace will
prevail after the elections.
unfolds.
b. Adversative conjunction.
1) S.11: But as many of them have spent a lot of money on the

campaigns, they now have less with which to finance their protests.
2) S.17: It was ironic we had a very democratic and peaceful election,
but some of those responsible for this success were jailed.
3) S.20: But we hope that problems will be resolved, and peace will
prevail after the elections.
3.3.2 Lexical cohesion.
this:
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Thank you voters
1. No matter how chaotic the administrative preparations for the

April 9 legislative election, and no matter how low the trust of the
voters for the contestants in the elections, Indonesian voters
proved once again, that our people - most of them are poor in terms
of education and income - are rich in terms of morality,
peacefulness, support for democracy and in taking civic
responsibility.
2. They are great voters because they acted as responsible citizens.
3. Our leaders and political elites should feel ashamed at the betrayal
of the nation by the political class.
4. There have been so many legislators both at national and regional
level who had been jailed for abusing their power and enriching
their own pockets.
5. There are too many politicians who are still untouchable. There is
little hope the next legislators will not repeat this corrupt and
abusive behavior.
6. Quick counts and preliminary data from the General Elections
Commission (KPU), indicated that major political parties like the
Democratic Party (PD), the Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI-P) and the Golkar Party were still leading in the
counting, and new political parties like the Great Indonesian Party
(Gerindra) were also making some gains.
7. In the next few days, we will get a much clearer picture of the
victors in this election, and who will contest the July presidential
elections.
8. Voters apparently are more enthusiastic about the presidential
elections, because they have more hope in a president, who will
lead this nation for the next five years.
9. It is very likely there will be many complaints about irregularities
and vote rigging, not only from the political parties but also from
the legislative candidates.
10. There is fear that there may be some violence because the losers
and those who claim to be the victims of election malpractices may
use all possible means to channel their frustrations.
11. But as many of them have spent a lot of money on the campaigns,
they now have less with which to finance their protests.
12. The April 9 election was definitely the most chaotic general
election compared to those of 1999 and in 2004.
13. Trust in political parties and politicians is also at its lowest level
since democracy was restored.
14. In 1999, the world applauded Indonesian voters after we had a
truly well organized, democratic and peaceful election, just one
year after we rid ourselves of Soeharto after 32 years of
authoritarian rule, during which voters never had a genuine chance
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to exercise their constitutional rights to elect others or to stand for
election.
15. In 2004 when voters directly elected their president, we also
achieved a first for Indonesia.
16. Voters proved again that we are a peaceful, democratic and orderly
people. Unfortunately, some of the KPU members were imprisoned
for committing corrupt offences.
17. It was ironic we had a very democratic and peaceful election, but
some of those responsible for this success were jailed.
18. All stakeholders are responsible for the success of these 2009
general elections.
19. The losers and the winners need to act as true statesmen no matter
how bitter or how glorious they feel in facing their new fate.
20. But we hope that problems will be resolved, and peace will prevail
after the elections.
sentences, as in ‘voters’ (in sentences 1, 2 and 14), ‘political parties’ (in sentences
6, 9, and 13) ‘presidential election (in sentences 7 and 8), ‘the losers’ (in sentences
10 and 19) ‘peaceful’ (in sentences 16 and 17), other repetition occurs within the
same sentence ‘No matter’ (in sentences 1) and the other nouns such as election,
voters etc are the topics of the text.
There are no synonym , superordinates, general words and collocation in
text 3.
4. Text 4 (Easter election)
1. Reference
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pronoun as a subject we, they, you, he and it, us as an object, and possessive
determiner (possessive adjectives) our and their.
1) S.1: Depending on how you want to see it, this year’s legislative
elections are either very Christian or very un-Christian. (it refers to
election).
2) S.7: We have heard enough calls for a peaceful election from our
political leaders and election candidates. (we and our refer to the
writer represents Indonesian people).
3) S.10: … which baffles even the most sophisticated city dweller,
let alone our rural compatriots. . (our refers to the writer
represents Indonesian people).
4) S.20: Leaders devote their time, energy, thought and even their
lives to serving their people. (their refers to leaders).
5) S.22: Despite the short history of our nation, we once had a batch
of leaders who showed the qualities of genuine leaders in the
fledging years of our republic. (we and our refer to the writer
represents Indonesian people).
6) S.23: They were leaders who devoted their lives to the people,
while often forsaking their own needs. . (they and their refer to
leaders).
7) S.25: To be sure, those types of leaders are still among us today.
(us refers to the writer represents Indonesian people ).
8) S.27: Hopefully, this lapse in our leadership is only a moment of
insomnia before we win quality leaders… (we and our refer to the
writer represents Indonesian people).
There are personal person as a subject they (S.23) refers to leaders, we

(S.14) refers to the write who represents Indonesian people and personal person as
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an object it (S.1) refers to the election and us (S.25) refers to the writer who
represents Indonesian people.
Personal reference as a possessive determiner our (S.7, 10, 22, and 27)
refers to the writer who represents Indonesian people, their (S.20 and 23) refers to
leaders.
demonstrative represented by this and those.
1) S.8: This hope is also shared by the people on the street.
This refers to sentence that has been said before, hope means “… peaceful
election from our political leaders and election candidates..” (In sentence 7).
2) S.9 and 10: The reason is simple. There are many causes for
concern in this election, other than the complicated voting system -
which baffles even the most sophisticated city dweller, let alone
our rural compatriots.
Here the is cathaporic, it means that the reason here is in the following text,
pointing forward to ‘There are many causes for concern in this election, other
than the complicated voting system - which baffles even the most sophisticated
city dweller…’.
3) S.21: If this essence seems to be overlooked in our country today,

may this Easter election serve as a gentle reminder.
This refers to sentence that has been said before (in sentences 18,19 and 20).
4) S.25: To be sure, those types of leaders are still among us today.
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Here those refers to the sentences that have been said in the preceding sentences.
The comparative reference in text (4) is expressed only by general comparison
through only identity the same
1) S.18: Jesus sacrificed himself for the sake of the world in the
same way leaders sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people
Same is a general comparison that mean the comparison that is simply in term of
likeness or two thing maybe the same. Jesus sacrificed himself for the sake of the
world the same with leaders sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people.
There is no ellipsis and substitution item that appears in the text 4.
The conjunction item which occurs in the text 4 is only additive
conjunction. There are no adversative, causal, temporal conjunction in text 4.
1) S.6: Isn’t Easter about creating peace on Earth and returning to the
path of righteousness?
unfolds.
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this:
Easter election.
1. Depending on how you want to see it, this year’s legislative

elections are either very Christian or very un-Christian.
2. Protests in some Christian-dominated regions, particularly in
eastern Indonesia, are certainly a testament to the latter.
3. Having to vote during Easter week coupled with getting one’s
head around a complicated voting system is a sure way of driving
Christian voters away.
4. With Easter celebrations being the most sacred week for
Christians – from Maundy Thursday to Easter Sunday - splashed
with important religious ceremonies, the government’s flexibility
in allowing certain regions to change the election date was highly
vcommended.
5. There are also many reasons to view the upcoming elections in the
largest Muslim-majority nation as Christian too.
6. Isn’t Easter about creating peace on Earth and returning to the path
of righteousness?
7. We have heard enough calls for a peaceful election from our
political leaders and election candidates.
8. This hope is also shared by the people on the street.
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9. The reason is simple.
10. There are many causes for concern in this election, other than the
complicated voting system - which baffles even the most
sophisticated city dweller, let alone our rural compatriots.
11. People have been concerned about ballots arriving late, particularly
in remote areas, voter lists being rigged like in the recent East Java
gubernatorial election, the likelihood of vote buying and the huge
number of competing legislative candidates – nearly 12,000 for the
560 seats at the House of Representatives.
12. To say this year’s election is one of the biggest and most complex
elections in the world is almost an understatement.
13. There are 38 parties competing in the April 9 legislative elections
and 44 parties in Aceh.
14. As reported by this paper a few days ago, a guide had to be
provided to help Indonesians vote in the most eastern province of
Papua.
15. A call to return to the right path fits well with today’s Indonesia,
which is dogged by chronic evils including corruption,
untrustworthy politicians, incompetent leaders, as well as religious
and ethnic tension.
16. Even the essence of the election fits well with Easter.
17. Leaders are picked on election day just like Christians believe
Jesus was picked for crucifixion on Good Friday.
18. Jesus sacrificed himself for the sake of the world in the same way
leaders sacrifice themselves for the sake of their people.
19. Sacrificing oneself, as Jesus did, is the essence of leadership.
20. Leaders devote their time, energy, thought and even their lives to
serving their people.
21. If this essence seems to be overlooked in our country today, may
this Easter election serve as a gentle reminder.
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22. Despite the short history of our nation, we once had a batch of
leaders who showed the qualities of genuine leaders in the
fledging years of our republic.
23. They were leaders who devoted their lives to the people, while
often forsaking their own needs.
24. Their lives and deeds exemplified the very teachings of great
religions, Christianity included.
25. To be sure, those types of leaders are still among us today.
26. The only thing is they are often outnumbered and outperformed by
their nemesis, who more often grab the headlines for their
outlandish behavior.
27. Hopefully, this lapse in our leadership is only a moment of
insomnia before we win quality leaders who can bring glory to this
great country again, just like Jesus was resurrected on Sunday, the
third day after he was crucified.
28. Happy Easter to our Christian readers.
sentences, as in ‘Christians’ (in sentences 1, 2 4…), ‘regions’ (in sentences 2, and
4), ‘election (in sentences 4, 5, 10…), ‘leaders’ (in sentences 18, 20, 22…)
‘peaceful’ (in sentences 16 and 17), other repetitions such as election, Easter,
sacrifice, Jesus are the topics of the text.
There is no synonym but there is one superordinate “crucifixion” (in
sentence 17) is needed here so that its identity can be left open; it could be
‘Christians’, ‘Jesus’, Sacrifice, Friday.
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general word. And it is general noun and he uses the general noun ‘Easter’ to
refer back either to the ‘Christians’, ‘Jesus’, Sacrifice, Friday.
3.4.2.2 Collocation
The second one of lexical cohesion is collocation, and it appears in the
same sentence 17 Christians and Jesus, it is part to part, because Jesus is part of
Christians.
5. Text 5 (Celebrating democracy)
1. Reference
pronoun as a subject it and they and possessive determiner (possessive adjectives)
its and their.
1) S.1: After months of worry, anxiety and controversy, Indonesia

held its third democratic legislative elections since the fall of
Soeharto this week. (its refers to Indonesia).
2) S.4: The first is to clarify the various election disputes and ensure
those who consider themselves disenfranchised from
Thursday’s vote will have their voting rights assured in the
coming presidential election. (their refers to those who consider
themselves disenfranchised from Thursday’s vote).
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3) S.10: Perhaps over a-third of eligible and registered voters may
have stayed at home instead of exercising their right to vote. (their
refers to voters).
4) S.12: The election sent a strong message to political parties that
they need to rethink their campaign strategies and win people
over with more substantial agendas instead of recruiting dangdut
singers in an attempt to win votes. (they and their refer to political
parties).
5) S.24: But National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri
said the attack on the Abepura Police station had nothing to do
with the polls, claiming it was a random attack aimed at
undermining the authority of security officers. (it refers to the
attack on the Abepura Police station).
6) S.27: The European Commission (EC) extended its ban on
Indonesian airlines from flying into EU airspace. (its refers to The
European Commission (EC)).
There are personal person as a subject it (S.24) refers to the attack on the
Abepura Police station, they (S.12) refers to political parties.
Personal reference as a possessive determiner its (S.1) refers to Indonesia,

its (S.27) refers to The European Commission (EC). Their (S.4) refers to those
who consider themselves disenfranchised from Thursday’s vote, their (S.10)
refers to voters and their (S.12) refers to political parties.
b. demonstrative reference
demonstrative represented by this and theses.
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1) S.1: After months of worry, anxiety and controversy, Indonesia
held its third democratic legislative elections since the fall of
Soeharto this week.
2) S.22: The explanations for why these incidents occurred are
conflicted.
This refers to the situation when the text is written.
3) S.2: While the process was far from perfect, the results were
satisfactory enough to ensure that the culture of democracy
continues and progression toward creating an accountable
government is retained.
The refers to the sentence that has been said before in sentence 1, it is about the
result of the third democratic legislative elections in Indonesia.
4) S.18: The incidents continued into the wee hours of Thursday

when a security post at the Skaw Wutung border between
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea was attacked.
5) S.23: Both Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu and Vice President
Jusuf Kalla said some of the incidents, including the attack on the
police station, were intended to disrupt the elections.
undermining the authority of security officers.
The refers to the sentence that has been said before, it is about the incident and
attack in Papua when Election is held.
The comparative reference in text (5) is expressed only by particular comparison
through only epithet (…-er).
1) S.25: Whatever the answer, it is clear that Papua needs a greater

ongoing effort, other than straightforward security, before
conditions can be considered comparable to most other provinces
in the country.
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2) S.35. Four days later an Avia Star cargo plane crashed in the
mountains of Papua, killing six people While the current condition
of the Indonesian economy may be bleak, predictions have
emerged that Indonesia’s exports — having dropped 30 percent in
the first quarter — will fall even faster in the second quarter.
greater and faster are comparative adjectives.
3.5.1.2 Ellipsis
There are no substitution items that are found In text (5) but there is one
ellipsis item appear in the text. It is only nominal ellipsis.
1) S.21: The fire destroyed important documents and badly damaged

one of the building’s three floors, but claimed no casualties.
If we want to fill out an elliptical nominal group, the sentence above will be “The
fire destroyed important documents and the fire badly damaged one of the
building’s three floors, but claimed no casualties.”
The conjunction items which occur in the text 5 are additive conjunction
and adversative conjunction. There are no causal and temporal conjunction in text
5.
1) S.4: The first is to clarify the various election disputes and ensure
those who consider themselves disenfranchised from Thursday’s
vote will have their voting rights assured in the coming presidential
election
2) S.5: The second is the fair, monitored process of counting votes
and ultimately translating the results into seats.
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they need to rethink their campaign strategies and win people over
with more substantial agendas instead of recruiting dangdut singers
in an attempt to win votes.
unfolds.
b. Adversative conjunction.
Additive conjunction items which appear in the text are instead and but .
1) S.10: Perhaps over a-third of eligible and registered voters may

have stayed at home instead of exercising their right to vote.
they need to rethink their campaign strategies and win people over
with more substantial agendas instead of recruiting dangdut
singers in an attempt to win votes.
3) S.15: No one was killed, but police found two unexploded bombs
while sweeping the area.
4) S.21: The fire destroyed important documents and badly damaged
one of the building’s three floors, but claimed no casualties.
undermining the authority of security officers.
In this sense, the meaning of instead and but is ‘as against’.
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this:
Celebrating democracy
1. After months of worry, anxiety and controversy, Indonesia held its
third democratic legislative elections since the fall of Soeharto this
week.
2. While the process was far from perfect, the results were
satisfactory enough to ensure that the culture of democracy
continues and progression toward creating an accountable
government is retained.
3. In the days after the election three tasks quickly emerged which
require resolution.
4. The first is to clarify the various election disputes and ensure those
who consider themselves disenfranchised from Thursday’s vote
will have their voting rights assured in the coming presidential
election.
5. The second is the fair, monitored process of counting votes and
ultimately translating the results into seats.
6. The third is the issue of political negotiations surrounding the
formation of coalitions for the presidential elections.
7. The rise of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s Democratic
Party is indicative of the post-New Order environment in which
change can occur.
8. A nonexistent entity, the party has rocketed to the top the polls,
overcoming established factions in the country’s political fora.
9. Though there should be pride in overcoming incompetence and a
lack of organization to hold successful elections in the world’s
third largest democracy, concern must be raised at the growing
apathy among voters.
10. Perhaps over a-third of eligible and registered voters may have
stayed at home instead of exercising their right to vote.
11. Perhaps exhaustion, not unlikely from the confusion and
unattractiveness of the choices available, played a part in the poor
turnout.
12. The election sent a strong message to political parties that they
need to rethink their campaign strategies and win people over with
more substantial agendas instead of recruiting dangdut singers in
an attempt to win votes.
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13. As voters went to the polls Thursday morning, election-related
violence flared up in Papua, with police stations attacked among
other incidents.
14. The disruptions began Wednesday afternoon when homemade
bombs exploded under a bridge on the border between Papua and
Papua New Guinea.
15. No one was killed, but police found two unexploded bombs while
sweeping the area.
16. In the evening, unknown assailants stabbed several motorcycle taxi
drivers in Wamena, leaving at least four dead.
17. Two hours later, a fuel storage tank at state oil company PT
Pertamina’s depot in Biak exploded during refilling, instantly
killing a bystander.
18. The incidents continued into the wee hours of Thursday when a
security post at the Skaw Wutung border between Indonesia and
Papua New Guinea was attacked.
19. Shortly after, armed men attacked Abepura Police station in
Jayapura.
20. At daybreak, the rector’s building at Cendrawasih University -
about 5 kilometers from the Abepura Police station - was set
ablaze by unknown arsonists.
21. The fire destroyed important documents and badly damaged one of
the building’s three floors, but claimed no casualties.
22. The explanations for why these incidents occurred are conflicted.
23. Both Papua Governor Barnabas Suebu and Vice President Jusuf
Kalla said some of the incidents, including the attack on the police
station, were intended to disrupt the elections.
24. But National Police chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri said the
attack on the Abepura Police station had nothing to do with the
polls, claiming it was a random attack aimed at undermining the
authority of security officers.
25. Whatever the answer, it is clear that Papua needs a greater
ongoing effort, other than straightforward security, before
conditions can be considered comparable to most other provinces
in the country.
26. Despite the elections, Indonesia’s poor international reputation
persists in some areas.
27. The European Commission (EC) extended its ban on Indonesian
airlines from flying into EU airspace.
28. Despite verified safety progress, the EC decided to keep the ban in
place on airlines from Angola and Indonesia, a statement dated
Wednesday said.
29. Since 2007, the commission has banned all Indonesian airlines
from flying into EU airspace in response to Indonesia’s poor safety
record on account of a litany of air accidents.
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30. The government has since tried to improve the national airline
regulatory system and safety standards in order to get the
commission to lift the ban.
31. But more bad news has compounded Indonesian air safety.
32. The Air Force has blamed bad weather as the likely cause of
Monday’s deadly plane crash, when an aircraft crashed into a
hangar while trying to land at an air base in Bandung during
heavy rain.
33. A Fokker F-27, owned by the Indonesian Air force, crashed after a
parachute training exercise at Husein Sastranegara Air Force Base
in Bandung.
34. The plane’s six crew and 18 soldiers from the Air Force’s Special
Forces (Paskhas) were killed in Monday’s accident.
35. Four days later an Avia Star cargo plane crashed in the mountains
of Papua, killing six people While the current condition of the
Indonesian economy may be bleak, predictions have emerged that
Indonesia’s exports — having dropped 30 percent in the first
quarter — will fall even faster in the second quarter.
36. The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry said exports
would most likely plunge by up to 50 percent in the second quarter
as the slump in global demand continued.
37. “In the second quarter, the country may see a 50 percent decline in
exports after a fall of around 30 percent in the first quarter,” said
Kadin chairman M.S. Hidayat said.
38. But Hidayat was optimistic that exports would start to rebound
beyond the second quarter, taking into account various incentive
schemes by governments across the globe to bolster the financing
of international trade, which could then help boost export demand.
sentences, as in ‘Abepura Police station’ (in sentences 19, 20 and 24), The noun
‘Papua and Bandung’ sets the setting of place and other repetitions such as
election, democracy, voters and attack are the topics of the text.
There is one synonym, the synonym between word of worry and anxiety
(in the same sentence 1) that worry and anxiety are two ways of referring to the
situation of fear.
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There is one superordinate “incidents” (in sentence 13) is needed here so
that its identity can be left open; it could be “homemade bombs exploded (in
sentence 14)”, “unknown assailants stabbed (in sentence 16)”, “a fuel storage
tank at state oil company PT Pertamina’s depot in Biak exploded during refilling
(in sentence 17)”, “when a security post at the Skaw Wutung border between
Indonesia and Papua New Guinea was attacked (in sentence 18)”, “armed men
attacked Abepura Police station in Jayapura (in sentence 19)”.
general word. And it is general noun and he uses the general noun ‘violence (in
sentence 13’ to refer back either to the all incidents in Papua.
3.5.2.2 Collocation
sentence 3 election and voters in sentence 9 it is part to part, because voters is
part of election.
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CHAPTER IV
CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.
A. CONCLUSIONS
In conclusion as a result of the analysis of the five corpora that have been
done in chapter III, here the writer found the highest occurrence and the lowest
occurrence of the cohesive device either through the grammatical cohesive or
lexical cohesive in The Jakarta post's editorial. The cohesion through the
grammatical cohesive which has the highest occurrence is reference item
especially personal reference, it contrasts with other cohesive, that is substitution,
it appears only in the text 2, and it is only nominal substitution.
Although, the absence of the substitution item seemingly does not
influence the cohesiveness of the text. It is because the absence of the substitution
is succeeded by the other agency, that is reference. It means that the cohesiveness
of the text remains high.
Apart from grammatical cohesion, for the lexical cohesion, the writer
found some repetition words stretches across several sentences in every text of the
Jakarta Post's editorial and it is the highest occurrence lexically.
Then it means that cohesion has correlation between clauses within a text
grammatically or lexically, and cohesive agencies have a function as unifier of
text properties and have significance role in giving information to the readers to
understand a text easily as good as possible.
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B. SUGGESTIONS
One of an object in studying of cohesion is a text or an article of
Newspaper. It means that cohesion can be studied in every text. We can
understand a text easily as good as possible by using cohesion study. In this case
the writer uses the Editorial in The Jakarta Post Newspaper as an unit analysis.
The unit analysis of the research is only five texts in one newspaper. For
further researches this coverage can still be expanded to include more texts, not
only editorial text.
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COHESION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST’S

ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTEMENT

Abdul Rohim, Cohesion Analysis on The Jakarta Post’s Editorial. A Thesis.

The objective of this study is to identify the uses of cohesion in editorial

COHESION ANALYSIS ON THE JAKARTA POST’S EDITORIAL

Dr Frans Sayogie, M.Pd.

ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTEMENT

The thesis entitled “Cohesion Analysis on The Jakarta Post's Editorial”

Jakarta, December 04, 2010

1. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan, M.Pd (Chair Person) ________

2. Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd (Secretary) ________

3. Dr. Frans Sayogie, M.Pd (Advisor) ________

4. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan, M.Pd (Examiner I) ________

5. Drs. A. Saefuddin, M.Pd (Examiner II) ________

Jakarta, February 24, 2010

In the name of Allah the Beneficent, the Merciful

support, affection and advice.

May Allah bless his and his family.

1. Prof. Dr. Komaruddin Hidayat, M.A. the Rector of State Islamic

University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.

State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta.

3. Dr. H. Muhammad Farhan, M.Pd. the head of English Letters

the writer during his study.

6. All of his friend in Class C (Mamduh, Maunk and friends in special

can not be mentioned one by one.

pleasure for him to receive some suggestions and critics.

Jakarta, September 2009

LEGALIZATION ……………………………………………………… iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ………………………………………………. vii

LIST OF TABLE ……………………………………………………….. ix

LIST OF SCHEME …………………………………………………….. x

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION …………………. …………………… 1

A. Background of the study………………………………………… 1

B. Focus of the study ………………………………………………. 4

C. Research Question ……………………………………………… 4

D. Objective of the study …………………………………………. 4

E. Significance of the study……………………………………….. 5

F. Research methodology ………………………………………….. 5

CHAPTER II THEORICAL FRAMEWORK ………………………….. 6

A. The concept of Cohesion ………………………………………… 6

A. Grammatical Cohesion …………………………………………... 9

CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS ……………………………………. 24

A. Data Description …………………………………………………… 24

B. Data Analysis ………………………………………………………. 29

CHAPTER IV CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ………………… 67

Table 1 : Personal Reference …………………………………………. 11

Scheme 1 : Reference ……………………………………………… 10

A. Background of the Study

functions of language as the only device of communication. Communication itself

is defined as transmission of a message from s source to a receiver, or it is defined

as a process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information. 1

That is one of the examples of the important of language especially for

human being, because language is used for communication and language is

systematic and set of arbitrary symbols, it is based on many linguists’ definition.

Language is system of arbitrary vocal symbols and grammatical signals 2 , by

means of which the members of speech community communicate, interact and

transmit their culture.

Language is so significant that people have to use it everyday, they use it