used to tie up the idea within sentences.
2. Lexical Cohesion a. Reiteration
The next marker of cohesion is lexical cohesion, and repetition is one of its devices that often appear in the text.
a UEFA president Michel Platini is ensured of serving a second four-year term at the helm of European football
‟s governing body after no other candidates entered the race by the
December 22 deadline.
b Platini will be formally re-elected on March 22 at the UEFA
Congress in Paris.
c His second term as UEFA president will run from 2011 until
2015.
d The hallmarks of Platini ‟s first term are his fervent effort to
introduce financial fair play rules, and to make the top-tier Champions League more accessible for clubs from smaller
European
countries in the group stage.
e He also overhauled the former UEFA Cup into the Europa League
to rejuvenate the second tier competition.
f Thanks to Platini, new regulations in 2012 will help prevent
clubs from spending wildly beyond their means on player salaries and other expenses to gain an advantage over their
rivals.
g The UEFA chief has said he considers such a practice as a kind
of cheating.
h Platini was one of football
‟s greatest players. i The former France captain helped his country win the 1984
European Championship. He went on to coach the French
national team from 1988 to 1992.
The sentences above indicate that there are some repetitions in text 1, they are Platini in sentences 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8, UEFA in sentences 1, 2, 3, 5,
and 7, President in sentences 1 and 2 , League in sentences 4 and 5, European in sentences 1, 4, and 9, term in sentences 1, 3, and 4, football in
sentences 1 and 8, the writer chooses nouns to analyze in this section. Most of
them are related to the topics of the text. The authors utilize repetition within their text to repeat the important word that related to the text topic.
Sometimes, too many repetitions of words make the readers tedious, to avoid that the writer can choose an alternative way by using synonyms or near
synonyms which is another word that still has same or near same meaning. In the
text 1,there are no synonym, but there is one near synonym. The near synonym
between nouns chief and captain in sentences 7 and 9. The words chief and captain almost have the same meaning, generally each other have definition as a
leader.
There is one superordinate
“country and “French” in sentence 9, French is specific significance from country. superordinate is used by the author
to reveal a specific word hyponym by its general reference hypernym. And the
last form of reiteration that delivered in the text 1 is general word. General word
is used by the author as a general term that can cover almost everything. It occurs between
“UEFA Cup” and “competition” in sentences 5, as a general noun “competition” used to refers back “UEFA Cup”.
b. Collocation
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