2
L.16:.… For that reason I think the good idea will be to play in January or February..
3 L.22: FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar earlier this
month, beating out the United States, Australia, Japan, and South Korea.
That and this refer something that has been mention before; the differences are that for far proximity and this for near proximity. That in the text as
representative of the big problem which has been explained before, whereas this as representative of a month where FIFA will be held the 2022 World Cup
competition. The author uses demonstrative pronoun, to point out something according its own proximity.
3 Comparative reference. The comparative reference in the text 2 is expressed only by particular
comparison through epithet -er. They are better, cooler, and earlier 1 L.89 : Bin Hammam, who is also a member of the football
world governing body‟s FIFA executive committee, says it would be better to play when the weather is cooler
….
2 L. 22: FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar earlier
this month, beating out the United States, Australia, Japan, and South Korea.
Better, cooler, and earlier are comparative adjective. The author of the text uses comparative reference to show compared item within a text in terms of
identity or similarity.
a. Conjunction
1 Additive conjunction Additive conjunction item in the text 2 is showed by and.
a L.6: They have actually presented the solution for heat
challenges, so our country actually [is] ready and willing to host a very comfortable World Cup in the summer season.
b
L.10: …. Because the players would be in better shape and not exhausted from a long season.
And is expressed as additive conjunction, its function is adding information and as connection between sentences. The author uses additive conjunction to
keep the idea within the sentence in order to deliver as a unity. 2 Adversative conjunction
Adversative conjunction items that appears in the text 2 are however and but.
a L.8: However , Bin Hammam, who is also a member of the
football world governing body‟s FIFA executive committee, says it would be better to play when the weather
is cooler,…. b
L.23: … But the decision prompted protests from numerous
football organizations… Here however and but
have sense as “against”. The author uses adversative conjunction to show the existence of contradictions when says two things in some
ways opposite to each other. 3 Causal conjunction
Causal conjunction item that occurs in the text 2 is because. a
L 9: … it would be better to play when the weather is cooler, because the players would be in better shape and
not exhausted from a long season.
Here, because 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.
1 Lexical cohesion a Reiteration
The next marker of cohesion is lexical cohesion, and in this text there is just one repetition, tournament.
1 L.11 and 12: He added that it is premature to suggest co-
hosting the tournament with other countries in the region. European teams appear to be split on whether it is a good
idea to shift the tournament to a cooler time of the year.
The repetition word is tournament; it has connection from the topic of the text. Usually, the authors utilize repetition within their text to repeat the important
word that related to the text topic.
There are no synonym and near-synonym in the text 2, but there are some
superordinates delivered in the text, superordinate is used by the author to
reveal a specific word hyponym by its general reference hypernym. For more details attention these sentences below:
1
“ I have to defend to play in June and July because I don‟t to break the Spanish league because it is one of the leagues in
Europe that has continuity during January
.” Said Rosell. FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar erlier this
month
…L.20,21, and 23. January, June, and July are specific significances from month.
2 They have actually presented the solution for heat challenges,
so our country actually [is] ready and willing to host a very comfortable World Cup in the summer season...L.6 and
7 …. FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup to Qatar earlier this
month, beating out the United States, Australia, Japan, and South Korea
. L. 22 United States, Australia, Japan, and South Korea are specific significances
from country.
3 “They have actually presented the solution for heat
challenges, so our country actually [is] ready and willing to host a very comfortable World Cup in the summer
season” he said through an interpreter. However, Bin Hammam, who
is also a member of the football world governing body‟s FIFA executive committee, says it would be better to play
when the weather
is cooler,… L.6 - 9 Summer is specific significance from weather.
The last form of reiteration that appears in the text 2 is general word. General word is used by the author as a general term that can cover almost
everything. It occurs in League and FC Barcelona, for more details check this following sentence:
4 But Sandro Rosell, president of Spanish football powerhouse
FC Barcelona , says the move would be disruptive and force
some Europe‟s top leagues change their schedules. L.18 and 19
League is general noun that refers to FC Barcelona, its meaning is team. As people know, FC Barcelona is the one of big football team from Spain.
b Collocation
The second device of lexical cohesion is collocation, and it occurs in the line 13 of the text. For the complete sentences, check this following sentence:
1 England national team coach Fabio Capello says the heat would force his team to spend most of its time it hotel. L.13
and 14
It is part to whole, because coach is part of team. The word coach in this context football team has collocation link with team. On the context of this
sentence, the words coach used in the domain of network of sport fields that have collocation tie with team and create cohesive discourse.
a. Text 3 A Number of First Highlighted 2010 Year in Sport 1 Grammatical cohesion
