Abstract
The writing of news must pay attention to the element of cohesion in terms of cohesive, interrelated forms and from its inner structure in terms of coherent meaning. The purpose of the present study is to determine the use of the relationship among sentences (lexical cohesion) used in an online news discourse Tirto.id. The writing of news must pay attention to the element of coherence so that analysis is needed to find out whether news writing has the coherence of the text or not. In order to maintain the texts go coherence, it should be both cohesive and coherent. That is, it should utilize cohesive devices such as Reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunctions, and lexical cohesion, the last one of which accounts for the state of coherence in a text. The focus of this study is the collection of lexical cohesion in the form of reps, synonyms, and lexical equivalents. The use of lexical cohesion in a discourse in the form of lexical cohesion consists of (i) word repetition, including repetition of words with replacement, (ii) synonyms in the form of words synonyms, and (iii) equivalent, the equivalent form which have changed in to process of changing affix and confix morphemes in the online news Tirto.id of the Covid-19 Pandemic edition.
Highlights
Media is one of the important tools in daily activities for disseminating information
Online newspapers provide news services that are flexible against time and easy to access at any time
The Tirto.id website comes from the name of a national hero who was the father of the press, namely Tirto Adhi Soerjo, who was at that time founded the newspapers Menad Prijai, Soenda Berita, and Poetri Indies
Summary
Media is one of the important tools in daily activities for disseminating information. Lexical cohesion in discourse can be divided into six types, namely 1) repetition, 2) synonyms (words match), 3) collocation (words pairing), 4) hyponymy (up-down relationships), 5) antonyms (opposite words), 6) equivalent (equivalence). The note-taking method is carried out by listening to the research subject, namely the online news Tirto.id and recording the lingual units, which are the lexical cohesive markers in the form of repetitions, synonyms, and equivalents. The analysis techniques in Tirto.id online news on the topic of the Covid-19 Pandemic are as follows; (1) presenting the data obtained through the process of looking at notes; (2) choosing words in the Tirto.id news rubric that have repetition, synonyms, and equivalent forms; (3) copy and record according to category; (4) analyzing lexical cohesion markers; and (5) describe the research results that have been obtained from the online news rubric of Tirto.id
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