| dc.description.abstract | A language in use, in spoken or written form, has a semantic property that
makes it become unified and meaningful text. In getting coherence, one element and
other elements in a text should be organized and related in a logical way. An
important contribution to coherence comes from cohesion. Cohesion refers to
grammatical cohesion and lexical cohesion. In this thesis, the discussion is only
concerned to the grammatical cohesion. Grammatical cohesion is presented in
reference, substitution, ellipsis, and conjunction. The analysis of grammatical
cohesive devices is focused on the Inaugural Speech by Barack Husein Obama‟s. His
speech constantly uses strong political language. This language characteristic is very
different from language of other types of informal speech. In addition, Barack Husein
Obama often focuses exclusively on the word choices to make his speech has a strong
intonation. It is hoped that this speech will be read easily and the message of this
speech will be delivered coherently by using descriptive method. The analysis shows
that Barack Husein Obama‟s Inaugural Speech is a coherent text. It is proved by the
continuity that is established by the grammatical cohesive devices. In the text of
Barack Husein Obama‟s inaugural speech there are personal references we, us, and
our which dominantly occur. Those personal references refer to the one thing. They
refer to the American people. The consequence of the analysis shows how
grammatical cohesive devices grasp the main idea of each paragraph. Finally, by
finding the main idea in each paragraph, it proves that grammatical cohesive devices
contribute in forming and visualizing coherence in a text. | en_US |
