GRAMMATICAL COHESION ON PRESIDENT JOKO WIDODO’S SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL SESSION OF MPR 2021

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.