Linguists: Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching
Vol 8, No 1 (2022): JULY

A Discourse Analysis of Lexical Cohesion on Naila Farhana’s Videos

Winda Wasalwa Batubara (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)
Didin Nuruddin Hidayat (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)
Nida Husna (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)
Alek Alek (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta)
Moch. Imam Machfudi (UIN KH Akhmad Siddiq Jember)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Jul 2022

Abstract

The study sought to investigate the lexical cohesion in three YouTube videos by Naila Farhana, "Language Learning when you are an Introvert," "This useful language translation hack will help you!" and "Change your life! Benefits of Learning English Language". Farhana is known as an Indonesian YouTuber engaged in Languages. Through her video, the study analyzed Farhana's utterances on some topics based on lexical cohesion elements. Moreover, this study is concerned with Farhana's consistency, properly using lexical cohesion based, and finding out which lexical cohesion is the most dominant. Since to produce good writing and speech, it needs to pay attention when used to make the reader or listener not misunderstand. The research method was a qualitative description of the YouTube transcript to analyze the lexical cohesion devices. The results showed that the most dominant lexical cohesion of Farhana's three Youtube videos was Collocation of 36.93%. In addition, the study found Farhana's consistency in using lexical cohesion seen in the percentage of using the correct type of lexical cohesion reached from Halliday and Hasan's theory.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

linguists

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching contains the research manuscripts related to the broad areas of Linguistics and English Language Teaching. The journal is published twice a year (July and October) by Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Bengkulu and is based at the Department of Tadris ...