that one factor out of many factors which make him resigns is that he had witnessed the sorrow, sadness, and anger of the people.
The next chain of lexical items occurs in the subtopic of the governmental issue related to the resignation of the Prime Minister. The lexical items which occur
as collocation in this subtopic are ―accept‖ and ―resolved‖. These lexical items share semantic relation of being co
mplementary. The offer of Prime Minister’s resignation will be accepted if the disaster is resolved.
Then, in the subtopic of Prime Minister’s comments on the issue of some irregularities related to the ferry sinking, the chains of lexical items which collocate
are ―rampant ―corruption and malpractices‖‖, ―rooted out‖, irregularities‖, ―revealed‖. This subtopic only appears on
The Korea Herald
.
The Korea Herald
includes this subtopic in the news article while
The New York Times
only mentions about the irregularities without adding the comment of the Prime Minister on it.
The next subtopic in
The Korea Herald
is the opinions about the resignation of the Prime Minister. This subtopic only appears in
The Korea Herald
.
The New York Times
does not mention about the opinion of the public about the resignation of the Prime Minister. The resignation of the Prime Minister is considered „abrupt’. By
the main opposition, the resignation is considered as „utterly irresponsible’ and „cowardly’. So, the meaning relation of this set of lexical items is that they are all
describing the opinions about the resignation of the Prime Minister.
The Korea Herald
describes the accident by the lexical items of „capsized’
and ―doomed‖. In this subtopic,
The Korea Herald
only describes the general
description of the accident by those lexical items. Then, the last chain of lexical items which occur as collocation in
The Korea Herald
is in the subtopic of the critics toward the government about their bad response to the disaster. The lexical items are
almost negative including ―mistook‖, ―false report‖, ―failing to act promptly‖, and ―inconsistent‖.
c. Grammatical Cohesion
i. Reference
Reference is a semantic relation. The relation between reference and lexical cohesion is that all types of reiteration involve identity of reference. All of the
reiterated items must have same referent. In
The Korea Herald
, the lexical items which are reiterated are the lexical items of ―Prime Minister‖, ―Chung‖, and
―response‖. Those lexical items are repeated by its same lexical items. Then, there is lexical item of ―outrage‖ which is reiterated by its synonym ―anger‖. Next is the
lexical item of ―sorrow‖ which is reiterated by its synonym ―sadness‖. Then the last lexical item which is reiterated is the lexical
item of ―irresponsible‖ which is reiterated by its near-
synonym ―abrupt‖. Those reiterated items must have the same referent. For example, the lexical
item of ―Prime Minister‖. It is repeated for 3 times in 3 different sentences but in all 3 sentences, th
e lexical item of ―Prime Minister‖ has same referent. That lexical item refers to The Prime Minister of South Korea, the one which becomes the center of the
story in the text.
Then, the next lexical item is the lexical item of ―Chung‖. It is repeated for 6 times in 6 different sentences in the text but in all 6 sentences the lexical item of
―Chung‖ has same referent. It refers to the sort name of the Prime Minister. Then, the lexical item of ―response‖ which is repeated for twice has same referent too. It refers
to the action of the government in order to cope with the disaster. Those lexical items are the lexical items which are repeated by its same
lexical item. Then, there are 2 lexical items which are repeated by its synonym. The first lexical item is
the lexical item of ―outrage‖ which is reiterated by its synonym ―anger‖. Both lexical items share the same referent of the public’s anger especially
the family of the victims. The next lexical item which is reiterated by its synonym is ―sorrow‖ which is reiterated by ―sadness‖. Both lexical items ―sorrow‖ and ―sadness‖
have same referent of the sadness of the people due to the disaster. The last reiterated item is the lexical item of ―irresponsible‖ which is
reiterated by its near- synonym ―abrupt‖. Both lexical items refer to the opinion about
the resignation of the Prime Minister.
ii. Substitution
The borderline between the lexical cohesion and substitution is in the use of general words such as ―thing‖ in cohesive function. The general words, which
correspond to major classes of lexical items, are very commonly used with cohesive force.
Based on the analysis in the text,
The Korea Herald
uses no substitution in the text. Since substitution is a grammatical relation, a relation in the wording rather than
