a thousand of Batista’s supporters. Hence, the cohesion device used to retain the thematic progression is meronymy.
4.3.3 Cataphoric Reference and ClassSub-class
There is only one data found in the book concerning the paragraph having a derived progression throughout its clauses and using the combination of
cataphoric reference and classsub-class relationship as its cohesion devices.
Data 9
It was obvious that the property and wealth of Cuba were unfairly distributed. The bulk of land and businesses was in the hands of rich investors - mostly Americans.
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Analysis:
It was obvious that the property and wealth of Cuba were unfairly distributed.
|Th1 |Rh1 ||Th2
|Rh2 |
The bulk of land and businesses was in the hands of rich investors
– mostly |Th3
|Rh3 Americans.
|
It was obvious that the property and wealth of Cuba were unfairly distributed.
α xβ
The first clause consists of a clause complex indicating hypotactic relationship. The topical theme of the dominating clause is It considered as the
empty subject as it is actually referred to that the property and wealth of Cuba
were unfairly distributed. As the actual subject is put in the end of the clause in which it is called in the traditional grammar as the end-focus and end-weight, the
word It which also acts as the theme is called as the thematized comment theme. The rheme of the clause is was obvious. Meanwhile, the theme of the dependent
clause, noun clause, being assigned in the end of the clause is included in a multiple theme; structural and topical. The structural theme can be seen from that
and the topical theme is the property and wealth of Cuba while the rheme is were unfairly distributed. The topical theme of the second clause cannot be tracked
from the theme-rheme of the previous clause since the theme of the previous clause It is only an empty subject in which the real subject is experiencing an
extraposed that the property and wealth of Cuba were unfairly distributed and it is put in the end of the clause complex while the rheme of the previous clause was
obvious only adds information to it. From this analysis, there is the breaking of the progression occurred in this case.
The following clause The bulk of land and businesses was in the hands of rich investors - mostly Americans has The bulk of land and businesses serving as
the topical theme of the clause while the rheme is was in the hands of rich investors
– mostly Americans. The topical theme of this clause is assumed to be derived from the topical theme of the previous clause the property and wealth of
Cuba shown by the broken line above since land and businesses are some
kinds of property and wealth that Cuba has. From this description, it can be seen that they are related in meaning, but not in form. This phenomena indicates the
derived progression since the theme of the third clause is not mentioned explicitly in the previous clause, but they have a relation.
From the analysis above, the progression in the paragraph can be drawn as follows:
Clause 1 to 2: Since the theme of the first clause is an empty subject, hence the breaking of the progression occurred.
Clause 2 to 3: Derived progression The pattern of thematic movement throughout the paragraph is the derived
progression, except the progression of the theme of the first clause to the theme of the second clause since the theme of the first clause is an empty subject and the
theme of the second clause, noun clause, becomes its genuine subject. The derived can be seen from the theme of the third clause the bulk of land and businesses
which is derived from the topical theme of its preceding clause the property and wealth of Cuba. It can be said so since land and businesses are parts or kinds of
property and wealth of Cuba and they are related through the super ordinate and subordinate relationship. Hence, the cohesion device used to link the theme is the
classsub-class relationship.
4.3.4 Meronymy and Homophoric Reference
Kategori