KOHESI PADA PIDATO GEORGE W. BUSH: “ADDRESS TO THE NATION 9-11”

Abstract

Abstract

The research is entitled Cohesion in the speech script of George W. Bush: “Address to The Nation 9-11†It is an attempt to identify, classify, and analyze the five general cohesive devices. In George W. Bush’s speech.

The writer conducts this research by using descriptive method. In collecting data, the speech and its history were taken from the website American  speech miler center and other relevant source from internet as a source data. The data analysis was based on by Halliday and Hasan (1976) and supported by De Beaugrande and Dressler (1986:8) and Brown and Yule (1983:191). These five general cohesive devices were applied in George W. Bush’s speech. The theory consists of five devices, they are:pronoun (personal, possessive, demonstrative, and interrogative pronoun) substitusion, ellipsis, conjuction (adversative, temporal, coordinating, correlative, subordinating, and causal), lexical (repetition, synonym, antonym, hyponym, equivalent, correlation).

The result of this research shows that there are 76 pronouns consist with 48 personal pronouns, 16 demonstrative pronouns, 12 interrogative pronouns, and there is no possessive pronoun, and there are 2 subtitusions, 49 conjuctions consist with 43 coordinating conjunctions, 4 adversative conjunctions, 3 causal conjunctions, 2 temporal conjunctions, and there is no correlative and subordinating conjunction, and also there are 15 lexicals, and there is no ellipsis

Keywords : Discourse Analysis, Cohesion, Speech, George W. Bush