AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN THE LITTLE MERMAID SHORT STORY BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Abstract

Cohesion is one of the linguistic devices that show connectedness in text and sentences. Cohesion is divided into two parts, namely grammatical and lexical cohesion, but the writer only focuses on grammatical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion consists of references, substitutions, ellipsis, and conjunctions. Cohesion is used in various forms of text and stories. A short story is a vehicle for the imaginative expression of feeling, thought, and concept. This research aims to analyze the types of grammatical cohesion in The Little Mermaid short story by Hans Christian Andersen and also analyze the function type used. The writer used some theories stated by Halliday and Hasan (1976), in which grammatical cohesion is divided into four categories: reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction. The method used for this research was the descriptive qualitative method. This paper uses the note-taking approach as one of its data collection strategies. Reading and carefully comprehending the short stories from "The Little Mermaid" to identify grammatical cohesiveness, collect it from the data from The Little Mermaid short story, and then classify it into different categories. Based on the analysis, the writer got 55 of data and divided it into four types, where the reference has 26 examples (21 personal references, 5 demonstrative references), substitution 7 examples (5 nominal and 2 verbal), ellipsis 3, conjunction 19 examples ( 6 additives, 7 adversatives, 3 causal, 3 temporal). So the dominance of references that are often used in the story is presented by nominal references and demonstrative references in this short story.