ANAPHORA AND CATAPHORA OF ARGUMENTATITIVE ARTICLES IN INDONESIAN OPINION AND EDITORIAL COLUMN

Rahman, Yenni Arif

Akrab Juara : Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Sosial
Vol 4 No 3 (2019)

The study provides an empirical analysis on the use of anaphora and cataphora in Indonesian opinion and editiorial column. Data for the study were 10 articles collected from 2 leading english-langauge newspapers in Indonesia. Dooley and Levinsohn monograf gives the thorough examples how to analyse cohesive devices in the text. Of 129 sentence-pairs, 122 employs anaphora as reference and the rest, 7 sentence-pairs, uses cataphora. It is also found the dominant use of pronoun as both anaphora and cataphora which contributes 72% or 92 pronouns as reference. The rest are distributed to relative pronoun, nouns, adverbs, and verbs.