AN ANALYSIS OF COHESION DEVICES IN ELLE MAGAZINE’S ARTICLES

The aims of the study are to investigate the types of grammatical and
lexical cohesion used in Elle Magazine’s articles and how each devices
contributes to the cohesion in the text found in Elle Magazine’s articles. This
study uses Haliday and Hasan’s (1976) theory.
This study uses descriptive qualitative design. The source of data is Elle
Magazine’s articles. Elle magazine consists of ten articles; those are style,
relation, radar, career, escape, celebrity, travel, life, beauty and fashion. The data
are the words, phrases, clauses and sentences found in Elle Magazine’s articles.
The main instrument in collecting, classifying, and analyzing the data is the writer
herself. The method data collection is content analysis.
The findings of this study show that all types of grammatical cohesion i.e
reference, substitution, ellipsis and conjunction are utilized in Elle Magazine’s
articles. While the lexical cohesion devices are reiteration and collocation. The
writer found 37 data. From the 37 data collected, 29 data belong to grammatical
cohesion and 8 data belong to lexical cohesion. The 29 data that belong to
grammatical cohesion can be further classified as follows; 15 data belong to
reference, 1 data belongs to substitution, 2 data belong to ellipsis, and 11 data
belong to conjunction. The 8 data that belong to lexical cohesion can be further
classified as follows; 6 data belong to reiteration and 2 data belong to collocation.
This study also elaborates the grammatical and lexical cohesive devices and their
contribution to the text cohesion.