The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation

ii. Collocation In The Korea Herald , there are 8 chains of lexical items which occur as collocation which support the text in building its lexical cohesion. Each chain has its own semantic relation which conveys the context about the resignation of South Korea’s Prime Minister. The first chain of lexical items occurs in the first subtopic about the offer of Prime Minister’s resignation. Those lexical items are ―offered to resign‖ and ―public outrage‖. In this topic, the semantic relation between the two lexical items can be described as cause and effect. It is perceived by the keyword „outrage’ as the cause of the „offer’. On other words, the offer of Prime Minister’s resignation is caused by the outrage of the public. Then, there are two chains of lexical items in the second subtopic about the Prime Minister statement’s on his resignation. There are two chains of lexical items because there are two points that the Prime Minister mention in his resignation. The first point that the Prime Minister mentions in his resignation is his apology to the people for a series of problems that he had done in handling the disaster. This subtopic is represented by the chain of lexical items including the lexical items of ―apologized‖, ―a series‖, ―steps‖, ―response‖, and ―measures‖. Then, the second chain of lexical items which convey the context about the statements of the Prime Minister in his resignation includes the lexical items of ―witnessing‖, ―sorrow‖, ―sadness‖, and ―anger‖. By these lexical items, the point that the Prime Minister wants to mention is that one factor out of many factors which make him resigns is that he had witnessed the sorrow, sadness, and anger of the people. The next chain of lexical items occurs in the subtopic of the governmental issue related to the resignation of the Prime Minister. The lexical items which occur as collocation in this subtopic are ―accept‖ and ―resolved‖. These lexical items share semantic relation of being co mplementary. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation will be accepted if the disaster is resolved. Then, in the subtopic of Prime Minister’s comments on the issue of some irregularities related to the ferry sinking, the chains of lexical items which collocate are ―rampant ―corruption and malpractices‖‖, ―rooted out‖, irregularities‖, ―revealed‖. This subtopic only appears on The Korea Herald . The Korea Herald includes this subtopic in the news article while The New York Times only mentions about the irregularities without adding the comment of the Prime Minister on it. The next subtopic in The Korea Herald is the opinions about the resignation of the Prime Minister. This subtopic only appears in The Korea Herald . The New York Times does not mention about the opinion of the public about the resignation of the Prime Minister. The resignation of the Prime Minister is considered „abrupt’. By