Abstract
This study investigatesthe types of grammatical cohesion and the frequency of grammatical cohesionin the short story “Tanya’s Reunion” By Valarie Flournoy. The study investigation is based onHasan and Halliday theory of Grammatical Cohesion. This study employs a descriptive qualitative method.The data of this study were taken from the short story entitled “Tanya’s Reunion” in the forms ofwords, phrases, clauses, and sentences.In this study, the researcher is the key instrument who interprets the data. The result of the analysis shows that grammatical cohesion found in the short story “Tanya’s Reunion” are reference – personal reference, demonstrative reference, and comparative reference; substitution – nominal substitution and verbal substitution; ellipsis – nominal ellipsis, verbal ellipsis, and clausal ellipsis; and conjunction – additive conjunction, adversative conjunction, causal conjunction, and temporal conjunction, meanwhile, clausal substitution is not found in this short story.
Highlights
In a text, a sentence is related to another one and this is called to have a cohesion
The potential of cohesion lies in the synthetic resources of reference, ellipsis, and so on that built into the language itself
It is focused on words, phrases, clauses, and sentences which are categorized as grammatical cohesion – references, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction
Summary
A sentence is related to another one and this is called to have a cohesion. Cohesion is expressed through the strata organization of language. Language can be explained as multiple coding system comprising three levels of coding or strata; the semantic “meaning”, lexico-grammatical “forms” and the phonological orthographic “expression”. It means that cohesion will make the reader or the listener to understand spoken or written text. The researcher feels thatgrammatical cohesion is very important to be analyzedsince it has a vital role in the short story. Grammatical cohesion is important to build the relation of word to word or sentence to sentence
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