A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ON ALICE BROWN’S THE CRY FAIRY

Abstract

The Cry Fairy is one of written languages especially narrative text based on generic structure of storytelling. Generic structure of the Cry Fairy consists of orientation, complication, evaluation, and resolution that are displayed by the grammatical and lexical items. The kind of grammatical and lexical items make the text coherent and unified. The texture in the Cry Fairy is merely displayed by some grammatical and lexical items that interact; therefore, this thesis analyzes cohesive device, texture, and context in the Cry Fairy. Cohesion devices analyze the grammatical and lexical items in the text that refers to the grammatical and lexical cohesion. The texture in the Cry Fairy is analyzed by using chain interaction that realize context in this short story. This thesis is a quantitative and qualitative research; therefore, the methods used are interpretative and statistical. The interpretative method is used when I analyze the grammatical and lexical items in this text. These refer to the qualitative data that form the text because the primary data in this text is a short story. On the other hand, the statistical method is used to count the number of grammatical and lexical cohesion, and tokens in this text. This refers to quantitative data that form numerical. In addition, the manner of collecting data is non–experimental because this thesis uses all sentences in this text. All data are analyzed by using cohesive devices to refer to the analysis of grammatical and lexical items. Then, the number of the grammatical and lexical items are counted and classified into two parts: relevant token and peripheral token. The relevant tokens are used in lexical chain. Lexical chain itself manifests the individual messages that describe the texture in this text. This thesis found that the grammatical cohesive devices consist of reference (432 items), conjunction (162 items), ellipsis (5 items) and substitutions (2 items). On the other hand, the lexical cohesive devices are dominated by repetition (202 items) that shows the same lexical item. Other lexical cohesive devices are applied in the Cry Fairy as synonym (116 items), Antonym (34 items), Co-meronym (32 items), Collocation (28 items), Meronym (14 items), hyponym (10 items) and co-hyponym (10 items) respectively. They make this text coherent and unified because they give different contributions to describe the semantic relation in this text. In addition, those grammatical and lexical items describe the texture in this text by using chain interaction that realizes the context of the Cry Fairy.