Texture The Definition of Text Unity
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Cohesion is the internal aspect of a text and all the internal aspect such as grammatical aspect and lexical one that develop the unity of the text.
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Halliday and Hasan, moreover, put forward that the function of cohesion is to relate one part of a text to another part of the same text. In other words, cohesion
functions as a tie to link one sentence to another. The actualization of cohesion in any given instance, Halliday and Hasan examine, does not depend merely on the
selection of the word apples we cannot see that it has cohesive power by itself, a cohesive relation is set up only if the same word or a word related to it such as
fruit has arise previously. Halliday and Hasan point out that the cohesion lies in the relation that is set up between the sentences.
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For example:
International pop stars usually lead a very busy life. They need to give
concerts, attend photo shootings, or have other important obligations. Very
often they have to travel around the globe, jumping from one time zone to another without getting much sleep. There is no secret that many of them have a tendency
to take drugs to be able to deal with the pressure. One of the most famous victims
of drug abuse during recent years was Michael Jackson who died in 2009 only
two months before his 51st birthday.
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Example abov e shows such a cohesive chain in which “international pop
stars” in the first sentence is connected to all the other sentences via “they” in the second and third sentence and “many of them” in the fourth sentence. One has to
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Kushartanti et al, Pesona Bahasa Jakarta: PT.Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2005, p.96
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Nurul Laili Mariani Fadjrin, An Analisis of Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion on The Journalistic Text of VoANEWS.com UIN Jakarta: FAH, 2011, p.12
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follow all the cohesive ties in the subsequent sentences in order to establish the relation between the elements “pop stars” in the first sentence and “Michael
Jackson” in the fifth sentence, i.e. Michael Jackson is an instance of an “international pop star”.
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