Cohesion in Short Story
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Cohesion is a device used in connecting two sentences and indicating the relationship between them. Without cohesion text is merely collections of more or less isolated elements of text, which are not related to one another. Cohesion constructs the elements of text relating to each other. This relationship implies the continuity or unity, which is necessary for the interpretation of text. Cohesion is used to link one sentence to the preceding one or between clauses to the preceding one. However, these elements do not have only the relation of describing the unity, but also an arrangement and close tie among them, so the harmony relationship that is called the cohesiveness will be achieved. In this sense, a device of cohesion function is to obtain the unity and cohesiveness in the text. Thus, in writing this thesis the writer takes short story as the object of the research. The short story is a means of conveying ideas, thought and feeling of written from the writer to the reader. It is one of kind writing which starts from a particular point of problem, developed through a particular strategy of processing and discussing ideas as well. Surely, the short story is not constructed by separated elements one another, but supported by the cohesive devices which build up the unity and the cohesive of the short story. By taking this phenomena as the starting point, then the writer wants to analyze the types of grammatical and lexical cohesion used in each sentence of the short story and describe the functions of them, which formally exist as a device of creating the unity and cohesiveness. In this case, the writer tries to analyze the short story.
1.2 Identification of Problem After reading the short story, the writer finds out there are some problems as follows: 1. Grammatical and lexical cohesions have functions, which are used in analyzing this short story. 2. Grammatical and
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Cohesion is a device used in connecting two sentences and indicating the relationship between them. Without cohesion text is merely collections of more or less isolated elements of text, which are not related to one another. Cohesion constructs the elements of text relating to each other. This relationship implies the continuity or unity, which is necessary for the interpretation of text. Cohesion is used to link one sentence to the preceding one or between clauses to the preceding one. However, these elements do not have only the relation of describing the unity, but also an arrangement and close tie among them, so the harmony relationship that is called the cohesiveness will be achieved. In this sense, a device of cohesion function is to obtain the unity and cohesiveness in the text. Thus, in writing this thesis the writer takes short story as the object of the research. The short story is a means of conveying ideas, thought and feeling of written from the writer to the reader. It is one of kind writing which starts from a particular point of problem, developed through a particular strategy of processing and discussing ideas as well. Surely, the short story is not constructed by separated elements one another, but supported by the cohesive devices which build up the unity and the cohesive of the short story. By taking this phenomena as the starting point, then the writer wants to analyze the types of grammatical and lexical cohesion used in each sentence of the short story and describe the functions of them, which formally exist as a device of creating the unity and cohesiveness. In this case, the writer tries to analyze the short story.
1.2 Identification of Problem After reading the short story, the writer finds out there are some problems as follows: 1. Grammatical and lexical cohesions have functions, which are used in analyzing this short story. 2. Grammatical and