A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN BTS’ SPEECHES

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.