Abstract:
Grammatical cohesion is grammatical connections between clauses and sentences
in written discourse. There are many types of grammatical cohesion on President
Joko Widodo‘s speech at the annual session of MPR 2021 which are considered
informative and necessary. Therefore, the speech of Joko Widodo at his annual
session of MPR 2021 is taken as the object of this study. There are three problems
in this study. First is the type of grammatical cohesion that President Joko Widodo
used in his annual speech, second is the way President Joko Widodo used
grammatical cohesion in his annual speech, and third is the reasons why President
Joko Widodo used grammatical cohesion in his annual speech. The purpose of this
study is to find out the types of grammatical cohesion, to describe how President
Joko Widodo used grammatical cohesion and to explain why President Joko
Widodo used grammatical cohesion in his speech at the annual session of MPR
2021. The data were analyzed by reading the text of Joko Widodo‘s speech, then
marking the types of grammatical cohesion in the text, transcribing the classified
data and identifying them based on the grammatical cohesion, and then classifying
all the marked the data, interpretating the grammatical cohesion and finally finding
out how the grammatical cohesion used by President Joko Widodo in his speech.
The researcher found that President Joko Widodo used 6 types of grammatical
cohesion in his speech at the annual session of MPR 2021; they are (1) Reference
Personal, (2) Reference Demonstrative (RD), (3)Reference Comparative (RC), (4)
Conjunction Additive (CAdd), (5) Conjunction Adversative (CAdv) and (6)
Substitution Verbal (SV), the way President Joko Widodo used the grammatical
cohesion was mostly used conjunction of and inalmost each of the paragraph, then
followed by neither, nor, moreover, and in addition in his speech and finally the
reasons why President Joko Widodo used grammatical Cohesion is that he would
like to express relationships between things to other things in his message, to link
different things together, and to combine the things through his speech.
