Karo customs can be divided in many occasions such as marriage, funeral, birth, etc. Nganting Manuk is one of the phases in marriage occasion. It is held at
night by the wedding day. At that time the relatives of the bride and the groom discus the preparation wedding for the wedding day.
The formal dialogue between the leader from the bride side to the leader of the groom side will be analysed based on its textual cohesive. The writer feels that
it is important to be analysed to show that the theory of cohesive can be analysed in many aspects such as a traditional custom of wedding ceremony in Indonesia.
1.2 Scope of the Analysis
Karonese is one ethnic group that has various cultures in their society life. Such as in death ceremony, wedding ceremony, entered new house ceremony etc.
in this study the writer just analyze the language in the scope of grammatical cohesion in Nganting Manuk in wedding ceremony in Karonese culture.
Halliday and Hasan in their book Cohesion in English outline various kinds of cohesion, that is: Grammatical cohesion includes: reference, substitution, en
ellipsis. But in this study the writer has limited the scope of the analysis into grammatical cohesion only in the reference type. The text of “Nganting Manuk” is
the text found in the conversation between the relatives In Karonese it is called “Anak Beru” of the groom and the relatives of the bride. This phase is very
important before wedding ceremony begins. Because in this phase the relatives of groom and bride make a deal or agreement with what must be done in wedding
ceremony. The conversation occurring in this phase is a formal one, where it has rules to obey.
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1.3. Problem of the Analysis
The problems of the study that have relation with the topic, are: 1. What kind of cohesion that is used in the discourse “Nganting Manuk” wedding
ceremony? 2. What is the most dominant cohesions that are used in the discourse “Nganting
Manuk” wedding ceremony?
1.4. Objectives of the Analysis
In relations of the problems, the objectives of this analysis are: 1. To find out the kinds of cohesion that are used in the discourse “ Nganting
Manuk” wedding ceremony 2. To find out the most dominant cohesion that is used in the discourse “Nganting
Manuk”
1.5. Significance of the Analysis
This thesis is expected to expand the knowledge of the readers about grammatical cohesion, especially and for those who are interested in this subject
generally. They also can use this thesis as references for providing underlying information for further research about grammatical cohesion in wedding
ceremony.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
