Abstract:
This research deals about Grammatical Cohesion in BTS‟ Speeches. The
objectives of the study were to identify types of grammatical cohesion that
appears in the BTS‟ Speeches, and to describe how BTS used grammatical
cohesion in their speeches. Four speeches were taken as the source of data and
analyzed by descriptive qualitative method. The data were collected by reading
the scripts of BTS‟ Speeches, identifying based on types of grammatical cohesion,
and clarifying all marked data into types of grammatical cohesion used in each
BTS‟ Speeches. The data was analzed through Miles and Huberman (2014) that
involved: (1) data condensation, (2) data display, (3) conclusion drawing. The
finding of the analysis showed that types of grammatical cohesion used in BTS‟
Speeches and there were 682 data. BTS used 6 types of first script, they are:
Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, Comparative Reference, Nominal
Substitution, Temporal Conjunction, and Additive Conjunction. 8 types of second
script, they are: Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, Comparative
Reference, Nominal Substitution, Temporal Conjunction, Adversative
Conjunction, Causal Conjunction and Additive Conjunction. 8 types of third
script, they are: Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, Comparative
Reference, Verbal Substitution, Temporal Conjunction, Adversative Conjunction,
Causal Conjunction and Additive Conjunction. And 8 types of fourth script, they
are: Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, Comparative Reference,
Nominal Substitution, Temporal Conjunction, Adversative Conjunction, Causal
Conjunction and Additive Conjunction. The way BTS used grammatical cohesion
was mostly used And as Additive Conjunction in almost each speech.
