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is one element, besides coherence, which will result in texture. While texture is the property that distinguishes text from non text. Eggins 1994: 85 maintains
that texture is what holds the clauses of a text together to give them unity.
2.3. Cohesion and Linguistic Structure tdk pakai titik
To understand the relationship of cohesion and linguistic structure, I need to explore some questions about the correlation between texture and structure,
cohesion and sentence as well as cohesion and discourse. Since a text is not a structural unit, it can also be said that cohesion is not a structural unit. It is due to
the fact that texture is a property of being a text Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 2. Meanwhile, texture is manifested by certain kinds of semantic relation. So, it is
appropriate to say that cohesion as a phenomenon of semantic relations is beyond the range of structural relations. Yet, it does not mean that structural relations are
not important and have nothing to do with cohesion. Structure is a means of expressing texture. All grammatical units--sentences, clauses, groups, words--are
internally ‘cohesive’ simply because they are structured Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 7. Cohesion is not needed in making parts of a sentence hang together
because they already in coherence with each other by virtue of structure. The close relationship between cohesion and sentence is that a sentence is a significant
unit for cohesion because it is the highest unit of grammatical structure which tends to determine the way in which cohesion is expressed Halliday and Hasan,
1976: 6, 8. Based on Celce Murcia and Olshtain 2000: 16, writing is part of discourse competence and as a consequence cohesion must take a part in
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discourse structure. Halliday and Hasan 1976: 10 state that cohesion is not just another name for discourse structure. Then, where is the position of cohesion in
discourse structure? They continue that concept of cohesion is set up to account for relations in discourse, but rather in different way, without the implication that
there is some structural unit that is above the sentence. Additionally, Cohesion refers to the range of possibilities that exist for linking something with what has
gone before Halliday and Hasan, 1976: 10
2.4. Cohesion and Linguistic Context
