Budapest International Research and Critics Institute-Journal (BIRCI-Journal): Humanities and Social Sciences
Vol 5, No 3 (2022): Budapest International Research and Critics Institute August

Lexical Cohesion in Escape Room Movie Script: Discourse Analysis

Dhani Lesmana (Unknown)
Heri Heriyono (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jul 2022

Abstract

One of the important elements in a sentence is lexical cohesion. This study aims to describe the lexical cohesion used in the escape room film script. The method used is to take quantitative data in the movie script Escape Room. Data analysis was carried out by identifying and classifying data related to cohesion, based on the theory of Halliday and Hasan (1976). Based on the analysis, in this study, the most dominant types of lexical cohesion and lexical cohesion in the Escape Room film script were analyzed. There are six types of lexical cohesion found in the Escape Room movie script consisting of repetition, synonyms, antonyms, hyponym, meronyms and collocations. This study used 30 samples of data obtained in the escape room film script which included lexical cohesion, repetition (60%), synonyms (10%), antonyms (10%) hyponyms (5%), meronyms (5%) and collocations (10%). The most dominant lexical cohesion and often appears in the escape room movie script is repetition.

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birci

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Religion Arts Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences is a peer-reviewed journal published in February, May, August and November by Budapest International Research and Critics University Journal (BIRCU-Journal). BIRCI welcomes research papers in ...