KOHESI DALAM WACANA BUKU KONTAKTE DEUTSCH: SUATU KAJIAN ANALISIS WACANA (Cohesion in Discourses of Kontakte Deutsch Book: a Study of Discourse Analysis )

Mantasiah R.

Sawerigading
Vol 15, No 3 (2009): Sawerigading

The aim of the study is to find out the types of discourse and to describe the cohesive markers in discourses of Kontakte Deutsch book. The data were obtained through library study. The source of data is the German text books (Kontakte Deutsch). The population consists of eighty discourses which ten of them were selected as samples by stratified random sampling. The data were analyzed by using a discourse analysis by using the following steps: (1) observation, (2) understanding of data, (3) formulation, and (4) verification. The result of the study indicate that : the linguistic markers to mark cohesion are : (a) lexical cohesion: repetition, synonym, antonym, and hyponym, and (b) grammatical cohesion: ellipsis, substitution, conjunction, and reference. The cohesiveness levels of the discourse are : high, moderate, and low. The discourse with high cohesiveness is C1, and the moderate ones are: N1 and D1, and the discourse with low cohesiveness are S1 and P1.