b L.3: Malaysia lost to Indonesia 2-
1 in Wednesday‟s final match
of the ASEAN Suzuki Cup contest. c
L.4: …but remained the 4-2 winner overall after a controversial 3-0 victory in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
It is part to whole; they have connection among tournament, final match, and winner as collocation. On the context of this sentence, the words used in the
domain of network of sport fields.
2. The Dominant Devices of Cohesion Percentage of every Cohesion:
1 81 x 100 = 56,64 Reference 143
2 2_ x 100 = 1,40 Substitution 143
3 3 x 100 = 2,10 Ellipsis 143
4 14 x 100 = 9,80 Conjunction 143
5 22 x 100 = 15,39 Repetition 143
6 4 x 100 = 2,80 Synonym 143
7 1 x 100 = 0, 70 Near-Synonym 143
8 7 x 100 = 4,89 Superordinate 143
9 4 x 100 = 2,80 General word 143
10 5 x 100 = 3,50 Collocation 143
From the histogram above, the writer counted that the dominant device of grammatical cohesion utilize in the text is reference, especially personal reference.
Reference always appears in each text, consists of personal pronoun, demonstrative reference, and comparative referen
ce. It‟s described on the histogram clearly; the percentage of reference exceeds almost 60 percent. Then,
the dominant device of lexical cohesion utilize in the text is repetition. Repetition is part of reiteration device. The percentage of repetition based on the histogram,
exceeds more than 15 percent.
10 20
30 40
50 60
56.64
1.4 2.1
9.8 15.39
2.8 0.7
4.89 2.8
3.5
HISTOGRAM Cohesion Chart
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3. The Degree of Cohesiveness.
The writer determines the degree of cohesiveness in the journalistic text of VoAnews.com through Scinto formula by this following concept:
According the Scinto formula‟s concept above the writer establishes the degree of cohesiveness of each text whether their categories are very high, high,
medium, or low. The writer counts the degree of cohesiveness by the grammatical and lexical sight, because the cohesiveness degrees of them are different each
other. The result of the cohesiveness degree of those five VoAnews.com journalistic texts describe by the tables as follow:
Table 6: Degree of Grammatical Cohesion Devices
Text Number of Grammatical
Cohesion Devices Number of Topic
Units Percentage
Categories 1
12 Devices 13 Units
92.3 Very high
2 25 Devices
27 Units 92.60
Very high 3
42 Devices 62 Units
67.74 medium
4 12 Devices
10 Units 120
Very high 5
9 Devices 16 Unit
56.25 Medium
Average 85.77
Very high
The number of cohesion devices The number of topic units
�� 100
From the table above, we can see the degrees of grammatical cohesion devices in each text are dissimilar. Each text has its own categories depend on the
number of grammatical cohesion devices and its number of topic units. From the five texts that has analyzed, three texts have very high categories of cohesiveness
degree and two other have medium categories. Grammatically, the editor of journalistic text has completed the
requirement of good determining text, it is supported by the average of grammatical cohesion degree that attain 85.77. Beside grammatical aspect,
there is lexical aspect that occurs within the text. The percentages of lexical cohesion degree can be seen through this table below:
Table 7: Degree of lexical cohesion devices
According the table above, we see that the degree of cohesion lexical devices smaller than grammatical cohesion devices. The editor does not utilize
enough lexical cohesion devices. For example on the text 2 and 3, their lexical devices are not balance with their own topic units. They have many topic units
without supported by good lexical cohesion devices. So, the degrees of cohesiveness are low. The other texts have medium degrees of cohesiveness, it is
better than two texts before. The average of the lexical cohesion degree is 50.01 Text
Number of Lexical Cohesion Devices
Number of Topic Units
Percentage Categories 1
11 Devices 13 Units
84.61 Very high
2 6 Devices
27 Units 22.22
Very low 3
9 Devices 62 Units
14.5 Very low
4 6 Devices
10 Units 60
Medium 5
11 Devices 16 Units
68.75 Medium
Average 50.01
Low
low. In these cases, the editor wants to convey a lot of information to readers but does not attention of the lexical aspects.
In reality, degree of grammatical and lexical cohesion devices is not always similar. Sometimes, a text that has good grammatical aspect does not always have
good lexical aspect too. But, a good text or discourse should have both of them balance.
4. The Impact of the Degree of Grammatical and Lexical Devices
