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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
In this chapter, the writer analyzes cohesion of three texts on editor’s note in U.S News and World Report Magazine. In the first text, the writer finds 2 items
of substitution, 46 items of reference, 28 items of conjunction. It also has many reiteration forms. There are 3 items of repetition, 1 item of superordinate or
hypernym, 2 items of general word, and 2 items of collocation. The first text doesn’t have any pairs of ellipsis and synonym. The second and third text don’t
have any ellipsis form and have all of the kinds of lexical cohesion. The second text has substitution that appear twice, reference that appear 74 times, and
conjunction that appear 25 times. It also has 6 repetition items, 1 pair of synonym, 1 superordinate, 2 general word items, and 1 collocation item. While the third has
3 items of repetition, 5 pairs of synonym, 2 items of general word, and 1 item of collocation. For the grammatical cohesion, the third text has 1 item of
substitution, 46 items of reference, and 16 items of conjunction. For the complete data, it can be read in the table below:
Text 1: Navigating the World of Work Kind of Grammatical
Cohesion The Items
Substitution one, don’t like.
Ellipsis -
Reference your, we, our, yourself, you, it, they, I, me, their,
this, there, these, here, more, fewer, better, higher, shorter.
Conjunction and, but, next, or, also, despite, because
Table 1: Grammatical Cohesion That Appear in The First Text.
Kind of Lexical Cohesion The Items
Repetition good year, career, how.
Synonym or near synonym -
Superordinate top jobs → engineering, computer science, or
medical specialities.
General word thing, people.
Collocation companies – workers, best-paying – career
Table 2: Lexical Cohesion That Appear in The First Text.
Text 2: Your Money and Your Government Kind of Grammatical
Cohesion The Items
Substitution same, one.
Ellipsis -
Reference We, your, it, I, their, you, our, us, me, my, that,
here, now, others, more, bigger, better. Conjunction
and, or, although, too, because, because of, also.
Table 3: Grammatical Cohesion That Appear in The Second Text.
Kind of Lexical Cohesion The Items
Repetition congress, popular, site, review, fund, think.
Synonym or near synonym argue = against. Superordinate
things → your money and your government.
General word folks, thing.
Collocation congress – congressman.
Table 4: Lexical Cohesion That Appear in The Second Text.
Text 3: Not Just by the Numbers Kind of Grammatical
Cohesion The Items
Substitution one.
Ellipsis -
Reference it, they, you, I, we, our, its, your, me , my, more.
Conjunction but, too, and, also.
Table 5: Grammatical Cohesion That Appear in The Third Text.
Kind of Lexical Cohesion The Items
Repetition data, hospital, think.
Synonym or near synonym see = take a look, study = learn, important = vital, beyond = through, baffling disease = chronic
disease
Superordinate -
General word everything, thing.
Collocation hospital – medicine.
Table 6: Lexical Cohesion That Appear in The Third Text.
Summary of Data Text
Title S
1
E R
1
C
1
R
2
S
2
H G
C
2
1 Navigating the World
of Work 2
- 46 28
3 -
1 2
2
2 Your Money and Your
Government 2
- 73 25
7 1
1 2
1
3 Not Just by the
Numbers 1
- 47
8 3
5 -
2 1
Table 7: Summary of Data of Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion that Appear in Three Texts.
S
1
= Substitution E = Ellipsis
R
1
= Reference C
1
= Conjunction R
2
= Repetition S
2
= Synonym H = Hypernym
G = General Word C
2
= Collocation
B. Data Analysis