Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Gibran, Nanda Abyana
Diana, Chitra Hasan
Nova, Rina
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2020-09-16 02:52:18
Abstract :
In this thesis, the writer attempts to find out the grammatical and lexical cohesion in the
scientific articles: Journal of English Language and Teaching to determined what are the
types of grammatical and lexical cohesion and also what are the most appear in the
scientific articles. The research used a descriptive qualitative and quantitative method. The
data of this research are the words and sentences in scientific articles. The data collected by
reading every single words and sentences in the journals, and categorized the collected data
based on the types of grammatical and lexical cohesion of Halliday and Hasan. The writer
found four types of grammatical cohesion and one type of lexical cohesion used in the text
of journals: reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction while lexical cohesion,
reiteration: repetition, synonym, and superordinate. Based on the findings, it can be
concluded that there are four types of grammatical cohesion and two types of lexical
cohesion in the Journal of English Langugae and teaching. The most apears from both
grammatical and lexical cohesion is reference with twenty eight form in the scientific
articles.
Keyword: Cohesion, grammatical, lexical cohesion, qualitative, scientific articles