Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Defriandi, Defriandi
Yusrita, Yanti
Nova, Rina
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2020-07-01 02:49:37
Abstract :
This study aims to investigating the lexical cohesion in the text of short stories
written by Hans Christian Andersen. The writer chose three short stories entitled
The Last Dream of The Old Oak, The Saucy Boy and The Princes and The Pea to
determined what are the types of lexical cohesion and also what the most
dominant appeared in the text of short stories. The writer used descriptive
qualitative method in this research and the data in this research are the words,
phrases and the sentences in the text of short stories. The data in this reseach
collected by reading the text and categorized the words, phrases or sentences that
included in lexical cohesion based on Halliday and Hassan?s theory. After
analyzed the data, the writer found not all short stories of the data consist all the
items of lexical cohesion. In the 1stshort story the writer found total 25 repetition,
16 synonym, 11 hyponym, 2 meronym,1 general word and 6 collocation. In the
2nd short story the writer found 3 repetition, 1 synonym, 1 hyponym, 1 general
word, 6 collocation and the writer did not found the the type of meronym. In the
3rd short story the writer only found the item of lexical cohesion namely repetition
4, and collocation 3.The item of lexical cohesion most appear is repetition totally
32 occurrences in short stories, the next is synonym, collocation, hyponym. While
the least appears are meronym and general word.
Keyword: Cohesion, lexical cohesion, qualitative, short stories