c. Near Synonym = 1 item d. Superordinate = 2 items
e. General Word = 1 item 2. Collocation = 1 item
Table 5: Statistical Table No.
Cohesion Text 1
Text 2 Text 3
Text 4 Text 5
Total Grammatical
1 Reference 11
items 21
items 33
items 10
items 6 items
81 items
2 Substitution 2 items
2 items 3 Ellipsis
2 items 1 item
3 items 4 Conjunction
1 item 4 items
5 items 2 item 2 items
14 items
Lexical
5 Repetition 7
words 1 word
3 words
4 words
7 words
22 items
6 Synonym 3 items
1 item 4 items
7 Near-Synonym 1 item
1 items 8 Superordinat
1 item 3 items
2 items 1 item
7 items 9 General Word
1 item 1 item
1 item 1 item
4 item 10 Collocation
1 item 1 item
1 items 1 item 1 item
5 item
Total
143 items
B. Data Analysis 1. Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion
a. Text 1 UEFA President Platini Ensured of Second Term in 2011 1 Grammatical Cohesion
a. Reference 1. Personal reference
There are some personal references items that occur in the text 1, they are personal pronoun as a subject he, and possessive determiner his and their.
a L.3 and 4: … Platini will be formally re-elected on March 22
at the UEFA Congress in Paris. His second term as UEFA president will run from 2011 until 2015. his refers to Platini
in the preceding text.
b
L.5: … The hallmarks of Platini‟s first are his fervent effort to
introduce financial fair play rules…. his refers to Platini in the preceding text.
c
L.7: … He also overhauled the former UEFA Cup into the Europa League to rejuvenate the secondtier competition. he
refers to Platini.
d L.9 and 10: … 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. their refers to the clubs.
e L. 11: The UEFA chief has said he considers such a practice
as a kind of cheating. he refers to the UEFA chief.
f L.12: The former France captain helped his country win the
1984 European Championship. In his refers to The former France in the preceding text.
He L.7, 11 is personal pronoun as a subject, exactly it is singular masculine pronoun in third person. He L.7 refers to Platini, but he L.11 refers
to the UEFA chief. His L.3, 5, 12 and Their L.9, 10 are possessive determiner. His L.3, 5,
12 refers to Platini in the preceding text as UEFA president and their l.9, 10
refers to the preceding text, the clubs. The author uses personal pronouns to avoid repeating the subject mentioned previously but it has to utilize an exactly personal
pronoun in order there is no ambiguity meaning. 2 Demonstrative reference
The demonstrative reference item which visible in the text 1 is just neutral demonstrative represented by definite article the.
a
Platini was one of football‟s greatest players. The former France captain helped his country win the 1984 European
Championship.
The in 1 is signal of identity that shows to identify former France captain who was one of the football‟s greatest players in France and led his country as a
winner in 1984 European Championship. The here is anaphoric, it means the always refers to the preceding text. The is neutral demonstrative pronoun.
3 Comparative reference The comparative references items in text 1 are expressed only by particular
comparison through only numerative as, more and epithet ….-er.
a
L.6: ….and to make the top-tier Champions League more accessible for clubs from smaller European countries in the
group stage.
b L.10: …. The UEFA chief has said he considers such a practice
as
a kind of cheating. Smaller, as, and more are comparative adjective and more is
compounded. In this part, comparative reference is used to ease the author to comparing something.
b. Conjunction 1. Additive conjunction
