AN ANALYSIS OF GRAMMATICAL COHESION IN SUSILO BAMBANG YUDHOYONO SPEECH ENTITLED TOWARDS HARMONY AMONG CIVILIZATIONS

This research is aimed to know how the grammatical cohesion is used in the speech that was delivered by Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ( SBY ) entitled Towards Harmony Among Civilization. It is interesting to get the research about the grammatical cohesion used in the speech that talks about the global era that was delivered at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University in 2009. The objective of this research is to describe the use of grammatical cohesion in speech Towards Harmony Among Civilization. This research uses descriptive qualitative methods and observation methods to collect data. To answer this question, this research uses grammatical cohesion theory delivered by Halliday and Hasan (1976). The researcher finds out that SBY uses 550 forms of grammatical cohesions. It consists of reference, ellipsis, and conjunction. The grammatical cohesion used by SBY is sometimes endophoric and sometimes exophoric. It used endophoric when the reference exists in the text and it used exophoric if the reference does not exist in the text.