AN ANALYSIS OF CONJUNCTION FOUND IN BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH

Abstract

Language is the most distinctive of human activities and the most important means of human communication which is realized acoustically, visually and spatially in a written or oral form. Therefore, human needs language to express an anger, sadness, or opinion. In doing so, people use grammatical language which contains subject, verb and object. In using language, people use short from of language and other people need to know the meaning of this parts. Grammatical cohesion refers to grammatical items which are used to connect clauses in a text to make the meaning cohesive. The devices which function to link various lexico-grammatical elements in a text to convey meaning relations are called cohesive devices. According to Halliday and Hasan [1], cohesion occurs when the interpretation of some elements in the discourse is dependent on that of nother. It concludes that the one element presupposes the other. The element cannot be effectively decoded except by resource to it. Moreover, the basic concept of it is a semantic one. If refers to relations of meaning that exists within the text. So, when this happens, a relation of cohesion is set up, and the two elements, the presupposing and the presupposed, are thereby integrated into a text. Cohesion functions as a tie to link one sentence to another in the text. Cohesion as a characteristic of a text is formed by the linkage of inter clause meaning or grammatical cohesion. People can see that cohesion is relation of meaning that exists within the text.