AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION USED IN TIME MAGAZINE

Abstract

Cohesion is a relations of meaning that that exist in the text. Cohesion is divided into two forms,
they are lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion is cohesion
expressed through the structure or grammar. In this research the writer only analyzed forms of
grammatical cohesion in the hot issues of Time magazine published on July 2007, March 2008,
August 2009, June 2010, October 2011 and February 2012 along with the types of grammatical
cohesion itself in the form of reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. The purpose of
this research to find out the forms of grammatical cohesion and its types in the hot issues text in
Time magazine. The method used to analyze the data is distributional method by Sudaryanto
(1993). From the data collected, the writer found four elements of grammatical cohesion that are
used in Time magazine. They are (1) reference, types of reference found; personal,
demonstrative, and comparative. (2) Substitution, types of substitution found; nominal, verbal,
and clausal. (3) Ellipsis, type of ellipis found; nominal ellipsis. And (4) conjunction, types of
conjunction found; additive, adversative, causal, and temporal. After analyzing the data, the
writer conclude grammatical cohesion are indispensable to form a whole text, in this case the text
of the news magazine.
Key words: grammatical cohesion, time magazine, types of grammatical cohesion