A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON “SPA: REGAIN BALANCE OF YOUR INNER AND OUTER BEAUTY” IN THE JAKARTA POST ON 4 MARCH 2011

Abstract

Language is not only in the form of spoken but also in written. Newspaper is included into part of linguistic system. For sure, it donates a journalistic text that can be analyzed through discourse theory which consists of grammatical and lexical analyses. This thesis is entitled Spa: Regain Balance of Your Inner and Outer Beauty in The Jakarta Post on 4 March 2011. A discourse analysis is conducted in this study by applying functional discourse which consists of grammatical and lexical cohesion. This thesis is intended to know how the meaning of language is understood through a discourse analysis. The aim of this study is also to describe the application of grammatical cohesive devices and lexical cohesive devices to the article of Spa: Regain Balance of Your Inner and Outer Beauty in The Jakarta Post Newspaper and to find out whether grammatical cohesive devices and lexical cohesive devices can make the text coherent and unified. This thesis uses library research through some books in the library to find out concepts that are relevant to the theoretical framework of the thesis. The data of this study are collected from a written text. The qualitative data are in the form of descriptions and not in the form of numbers. Documentary (bibliographical) study is applied to this study as the technique of data collection, and the data are taken from Spa: Regain Balance of Your Inner and Outer Beauty in The Jakarta Post Newspaper which was published in 2011. Only one article is analyzed. A descriptive method is used to describe grammatical cohesive devices; both the grammatical cohesive devices, which include reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction, and the lexical cohesive devices, which include repetition, synonym, antonym, hyponym, cohyponym, meronym, and comeronym. In summary, the grammatical cohesive devices include reference (29 items), substitution (3 items), ellipsis (1 item) and conjunction (21 items). Thus, the article is frequently realized by reference. Meanwhile, the lexical cohesive devices include repetition (59 items), synonym (45 items), antonym (26 items), hyponym (14 items), cohyponym (4 items), meronym (11 items), comeronym (4 items), and collocation (4 items). The article is also realized by repetition. The result of this thesis indicates that both grammatical cohesive devices and lexical cohesive devices play an important role in making the text coherent and unified. In the grammatical cohesive devices, we find that reference appear more often than others. It means that reference play important role in making the text coherent and unified. In the lexical cohesive devices, we find that repetition occurs more often than others. In conclusion, reference and repetition play an important role in making the text coherent and unified.