to pour the addition of ideas within an existing idea. 2 Causal conjunction
Causal conjunction item that occurs in the text 4 is thus. a
L.12: … thus furthering football‟s development all over the
world. Here, thus gives signals that information in the preceding clause of the
content of the clause that follows the conjunction. The author uses causal conjunction to indicates a thought process in making decisions
There are no adversative and temporal conjunctions.
2 Lexical cohesion a Reiteration
Lexical cohesion is the second device of cohesion that will be analysis. There are some repetitions such as these following texts:
a. L.1: The president of football
‟s world governing body has outlined plans for a worldwide tour….
b. L.3: In his-end-of-the-year message Wednesday, FIFA president
Sepp Blatter
said that football leadership…
c. L.6: Blatter
says he believes meeting FIFA‟s national members in person will help set “a strategic course for the
future”. d. L.8: The first scheduled congress is January 6 in Doha,
Qatar when the Asian Football Confederation meets. e. L.10: In his message, Blatter again defended the selection
of Russia and Qatar as World Cup hosts in 2018 and 2022.
The sentences above which written above point out that there are some repetitions in text 4, they are „President‟ in line 1 and 3, „football‟ in line 1 and
8, „message‟ in line 2 and 10 , „Blatter in line 3, 6, and 10, the writer chooses nouns to analyze in this section.
Most of them are related to the topics of the text, because the authors utilize repetition within their text indeed just repeat the important word that
related to the text topic
There are no synonym, near-synonym, and superordinate but there is
one general word. And here is the general noun that used is tournament which refers to world cup. For details, look at this following sentence:
f L.10: In his message, Blatter again defended the selection
of Russia and Qatar as World Cup hosts in 2018 and 2022. g L.11: He said he welcomes spreading the tournament to
anew geographical regions. Tournament is general noun that refers to World cup, its meaning is like
competition football in world level. General word is used by the author as a general term that can cover almost everything. As people know World cup is a
prestigious football tournament. b Collocation
The second device of lexical cohesion is collocation, and it appears in the
line 3 and 4 of the text. For the complete sentences, check this following sentence:
a L.3 and 4: In his-end-of-the-year message Wednesday, FIFA
president Sepp Blatter said that football leadership will be
one of his key focuses in 2011. It is part to part, President as a person that lead a country definite has
leadership side. On the context of this sentence, the words president used in the domain of network of government fields that have collocation tie with leadership
and it create cohesive discourse.
e. Text
