Cohesive Devices Used In Shaping Global Superheroes From Malang, An Article From Jakarta Post Newspaper

This study focuses on the using of cohesive devices in the article “Shaping Global Superheroes from Malang” from Jakarta post newspaper. This article published on Sunday, October 19 2014 and written by Nedi Putra AW. The aims of this research are to find out the types of cohesive devices and the function of cohesive devices in the article.
The writer uses descriptive qualitative method in which the data are taken from the sentences that contain of cohesive devices in the article. The data collected are identified using Halliday and Hasan’s theory of cohesive devices.
From the analysis, researcher found four types of cohesive devices used in the article. They are: reference, ellipsis, conjunction, and lexical cohesion but researcher not found substitution in this article. The most cohesive devices that used in the article is conjunction then followed by reference.