B. Focus of the Study
Based on background of the study above, the writer limits the problem by focusing the research on searching the cohesiveness degree by analyzing cohesion
on editor’s note in U.S. News and World Report magazine. The editor’s notes were selected purposively as much as three times editions, they are May 2010,
June 2010, and August 2010 edition.
C. Research Questions
Based on the problem limitation above, the writer formulates the problem in two research questions, as follows:
1. What kinds of cohesion appear on the editor’s notes in U.S. News and
World Report magazine? 2.
To what extent of cohesiveness degree done by editor’s notes in U.S. News and World Report Magazine?
D. Significance of the Study
This study is expected to have some benefits for the readers. The writer hopes this research can give some contributions for linguistic field, especially in
grammatical and lexical cohesion that often used by mass media. So, this research is useful for the next researcher who wants to make this thesis as one of his or her
reference for their research.
E. Research Methodology
1. Objective of the Study
Related to the research questions above, the researcher intends:
a. To know the kinds of cohesion that often appear on editor’s notes in
U.S. News and World Report magazine. b.
To know how far is cohesiveness degree of editor’s notes in U.S. News and World Report Magazine have.
2. Method of the Study
The writer will analyze and identify the kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion that appear on editor’s notes in U.S. News and World Report
magazine. The method which is used in this research is a qualitative method. In this method, the writer describes and analyzes the data from the selected
references by using verbal explanation.
3. Technique of Analysis
The acquired data in this research will be analyzed through descriptive analysis technique based on the discourse analysis of M.A.K Halliday and
Raquiya Hassan’s theory. First, the writer takes data from U.S. News and World Report Magazine. They are three editor’s notes from three editions.
Then, the writer reads and analyzes the lexical cohesion in those texts by using M.A.K Halliday and Raquiya Hassan’s theory and other similar
supported theory.
4. Unit of Analysis
The units of data analysis in the research are three editor’s notes in U.S. News and World Report magazine. The writer selects the texts from May 2010,
June 2010, and August 2010 edition. Here are the titles of the texts: a.
Text 1 Navigating the World of Work, May 2010;
b.
Text 2 Your Money and Your Government, Summer June 2010; and
c.
Text 3 Not Just by The Numbers, August 2010. 5.
Instrument of the Research
The instrument of the research is the writer herself as the subject of the study by collecting, reading and analyzing the acquired datas. Those data are
collected from the editor’s notes in U.S. News and World Report magazine.
F. Time and Place of the Research
This research was started in November 2010 until May 2011 in UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta’s library and the other libraries in Jakarta that provide
books, give information, and other references about material which the writer needs.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Text
The word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of whatever length, that does form a unified whole. A text may be spoken
or writen, prose or verse, dialogue or monologue. It may be anything from a single proverb to a whole play, from a momentary cry for help to an all-discussion on a
committee.
1
Halliday and Hassan’s opinion above can be concluded that something can be called a text if it is used for communication. This case makes
differentiation between text and a disconnected sequence sentences. A disconnected sequence sentences are just unrelated sentences. Although their
grammar are good, they are very difficult to be understood, because their meaning are unrelated each other. While, a text is usually sentences which are related
grammatically and semantically. In other words, grammar and meaning of the text are in good relation, so, the reader or listener will be easier to understand what the
writer or speaker means. The elements of the text which are related grammatically
and semantically is called cohesion.
Text is a way to convey information from the speakers to the listeners or the writers to the readers. Sometimes, it will be very difficult to catch the
information that is meant by the speaker or the writer if the listener or the reader
1
Halliday and Hassan, Cohesion in English London: Longman Group Limited. 1976, p. 1.
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