Discourse Markers in News Articles of the Jakarta Post

https://doi.org/10.25299/jshmic.2021.vol8(1).6251

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Keywords:

Discourse Markers, cohesion, coherence.

Abstract

Discourse markers facilitate text interpretation. Discourse markers (DMs) were key attributes in linking sentences, rendering the text coherent. This study aimed to analyze Discourse Markers (DMs) found in four News Articles of The Jakarta Post based on Halliday and Hasan point of view. They were additive, adversative, causal and continuative. The writer used a descriptive qualitative method, in which the data were sentences that contain discourse markers in the articles. The data were analyzed by applying the theory of discourse markers from Halliday and Hasan (1976). The result showed there were 21 discourse markers found in four news articles. All the news articles included additive, adversative, causal, and temporal/continuative discourse markers. In the Jakarta Post news article, the numbers of the discourse markers were ample for readers to understand the articles better.  

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Published

2021-02-28

How to Cite

Yulianto, Y. (2021). Discourse Markers in News Articles of the Jakarta Post. J-SHMIC : Journal of English for Academic, 8(1), 55–63. https://doi.org/10.25299/jshmic.2021.vol8(1).6251

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021): J-SHMIC: Journal of English for Academic

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