AN ANALYSIS OF LEXICAL COHESION IN THE SONNETS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Abstract

Sonnet is one of the creations written by William Shakespeare, where this sonnet is the object of this research and the topic of discussion is lexical cohesion. Lexical cohesion refers to how vocabulary relates to different parts of the text, there are reiteration and collocation. According to Halliday and Hassan, lexical cohesion is divided into two types, namely reiteration and collocation. Lexical cohesion is very important to understand because it can help someone understand the meaning of a sentence. In this research, the writer uses sonnets written by William Shakespeare as the data. This study uses a descriptive qualitative research method based on Halliday and Hasan's theory. This research is focused on finding each type of lexical cohesion contained in sonnets written by Shakespeare (repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, general word, and collocation and also finding out the function of lexical cohesion. Based on the research that has been done, the authors found 50 data in this sonnet, which are as follows: the most common types of lexical cohesion found are antonymy, followed in second place by synonymy, collocation, repetition, meronymy, and lastly general word. In this study, the authors could not find any hyponymy. This lexical cohesion becomes a bond that makes inter-sentence relations integrated into the text in sonnets and coherent