4 contribute to the overall meaning of the text. Understanding how cohesion functions
within text to create semantic links could be beneficial for the students of English as a second or foreign language to help “decode” meaning. Beside that, how lexical cohesion
can be used to make a coherent text which uses a different word class with a related meaning to get another way of making text hang together, and how super ordinates
words and words with a very general meaning are used as cohesive devices.
1.2 Statements of the Problem
In line with the reasons above, the statement of the problem can be stated as follows:
1. What lexical cohesive devices are used in the article A Review Gender Differences
in Human Brain by Zeenat F. Zaidi? 2.
How do lexical cohesive devices make the sentences interrelated?
1.3 Scope of the Study
This study is to identify lexical cohesion. The researcher uses the scientific article A Review Gender Differences in Human Brain by ZeenatF.Zaidi. The researcher
investigated the article about lexical cohesion analysis. Every kind of texts employs cohesion to achieve the unity and the meaningfulness so do the headline. According to
Halliday and Hasan 1976:4, the concept of cohesion is a semantic one. It refers to a relation of meaning that exists within the text, and that defines it as a text. Issues of
cohesion can be analyzed, for example, the types of lexical cohesion devices which
5 can be classified into six types, namely
repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, collocation.
1.4 Objectives of the Study
In line with the research questions above, the objectives of this study are as follows:
1. To find out the types of lexical cohesion in scientific article of A Review gender
Differences in Human Brain by Zeenat F. Zaidi. 2.
To describe how the use lexical cohesive devices interrelated the sentences.
1.5 Significances of the Study
It is hoped that the result of this study can be great contribution to: 1.
The researcher
This study can be useful for the researcher because she can get knowledge that she never to learn it.
2. The reader
The reader who reads this thesis can get additional information about lexical cohesion in scientific article.
3. The Student
6 This research is expected to give additional inputs of science particularly about
using lexical cohesion in article A Review Gender Differences in Human Brain by Zeenat F. Zaidi and hoped to provide good understanding of how to write a good text
in the sense of the language used.
1.6 Thesis Organization
