Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion in the “Batu Belah” Narrative Genre

Abstract

 This article focused on grammatical and lexical cohesion found in Malay narrative of Batu Belah. This article also determined the most dominant cohesion in the text.

  In undertaking data analysis technique on this article, quantitative analysisi was used.

    Systemic Functional Linguistics was applied in this article to show cohession is a semantic relation between one sentence to another.

    This article showed that Grammatical Cohession of reference cohession to a sum of 37 pieces  (58,7%), conjunction cohession as 20 pieces (31,7%) and ellipsis cohession as 6 pieces (9,5%).While Lexical Cohession such Repetition as 6 pieces (60 %), antonym 2 (20%), and meronim 2 (20%). Thus, in this article the lexical cohession is more dominant than the grammatical cohession.