AN ANALYSIS OF CONJUNCTIONS FOUND IN “BALI SUN” E-NEWS ARTICLES

This study is focused on the analysis of types and functions of conjunction in the Bali Sun E-news articles. Conjunction is important elements in language structure that serve to connect words, phrases, or clauses in a sentence. The theory was taken from Halliday and Hassan in their book entitled Cohesion in English. The data were collected based on the theory proposed by Halliday and Hassan (1976). The collected data were analyzed by descriptive qualitative method in formal and informal presentation. E-news article from the Bali Sun website that focussed on the topic of tourism, culture, and government policy as the data source on this study. In finding, there were 177 data found in the data source of E-news articles by Bali Sun website. The most dominant of conjunction on this study is additive relation with their function of simple additive relation, with the used of the word and. Conjunctions are classified into four types: additive, adversative, causal, and temporal. Each type has a different function: additive shows additional information, adversative shows contrast or opposition, causal shows cause-and-effect relationships, and temporal shows time relationships. The types and functions of conjunction found in the reviews are contribute to the unity of the text reviews under study.