Lexical Cohesion and Coherence Analysis occurred on John Cheever’s Short Story The Enormous Radio

Abstrak

This research analyzed the lexical cohesion that occurred in John Cheever's short story The Enormous Radio. The purposes of this research were to identify the types of lexical cohesion in the short story and to explain how lexical cohesion contributed to the coherence of the text The Enormous Radio. The data were taken from an anthology of John Cheever's short stories, The Stories of John Cheever. In collecting the data involves in reading and collecting the data related to topic from the short story, while organizing the data involves in identifying, classifying, describing the data into five categories of general lexical cohesion used in the short story, e.g. repetition, synonymy, superordinate, general word and then to describe coherence of the text in the short story, it uses Halliday and Hassan’s Theory. The data analysis involved several steps. First, lexical cohesion markers were identified in the short story based on Halliday and Hasan’s cohesion theory. This was done by dividing the text into sentences, identifying cohesive devices, classifying them by type, and recording the information in data cards (e.g., sentence number, ties, lexical cohesion items). Next, the coherence of the text was explained through a descriptive analysis of how lexical cohesion contributes to textual coherence. A coding system was used to indicate the position of data, such as (P.4/S.45) for paragraph 4, sentence 45. Based on the analysis, the lexical cohesive ties in the text contributed to the unity as well as the context within the text. In other words, lexical cohesion facilitated the text's functionality within its context. It can be concluded that lexical cohesion created the coherence of the text.

Kata kunci

• Short story
• coherence
• lexical cohesion