Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to identify the types of grammatical
and lexical cohesive devices used in The Lion King Movie Script, to describe the
grammatical and lexical cohesion devices used in The Lion King Movie Script
and to investigate the grammatical and lexical cohesion devices used in The Lion
King Movie Script. The researcher used descriptive qualitative method to obtain
the objectives of the research. The data of this research was grammatical and
lexical cohesion while the data source of this research was script of “The Lion
King Movie”. The results in this research were found 312 ties of grammatical
cohesive devices and 196 lexical cohesive devices used in the script. The
realization of cohesive devices used in The Lion King Movie script was semantic
concept between lexical and grammatical cohesion devices, this referred to the
relationship meaning that exists within or outside the text. The most types of
grammatical cohesion used were personal reference and demonstrative reference
because they used to refer something which was mentioned elsewhere in the
script. Meanwhile, clausal substitution as only type of grammatical cohesion
didn‟t occur in the whole scene. The most types of lexical used were repetition
because they used to rewrite an item in preceding element with the same form to
following element. Finally, the findings showed almost all types of lexical and
grammatical cohesion contained reference, substitution, ellipsis, conjunction,
repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy, and collocation
contained in The Lion King Movie script.
