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Authors: Elsa Maulita Siahaan 1 ; Rosaria Mita Amalia 2 ; Eko Wahyu Koeshandoyo 1 ; Elvi Citraresmana 1 ; Lia Maulia Indrayani 2 ; Ypsi Soeria Soemantri 2 and Sutiono Mahdi 2

Affiliations: 1 Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia ; 2 Department of English Linguistics, Indonesia

Keyword(s): lexical cohesive devices, concept of ‘hero’, Cahaya Bangsa Classical School, descriptive writing, pragmatic discourse analysis

Abstract: Writing as one of language abilities involving multi-learning skills, experiences, and also cognitive processes can be obtained in descriptive writing. The aim in this research isto investigate the concept of “hero” in The English Second Language learners’ descriptive writing by third grade students observed using one of Halliday and Hassan’s five categories of cohesive devices, lexical cohesive devices, to enhance their overall texts’ communicability as devices are prominent to textual cohesion. The data of the features generally come from texts, oral and written, in any documents or transcripts. This paper focuses on (1) the type of lexical cohesion features occur in the third grade descriptive writing, (2) the difference concept of ‘hero’ obtained through the lexical cohesion features occured in the third grades’ descriptive writing based on the student’s perspectival system. The method of this study is a descriptive qualitative research by first collecting, classifying, and then analysing the data, finalized in drawing conclusion. The data analysed are taken from the descriptive writing produced by Indonesian third grade students of Cahaya Bangsa Classical School (CBCS) obtained in January 2019. This is a case study constructedbased on four previous researches in which specifies to the twelve (12) Indonesian third grade students. In result, both types of lexical cohesion features appear in the students descriptive writing which mostly are simple repetition, substitution, and equivalence, whereas only the first type collocation, ordered-set, that mostly appears one time. In conclusion, it is understood that the child processes their ‘hero’ concept by describing the characteristics of those whom they acknowledge as their heroes from the last clause in each of their descriptive writing. (More)

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Siahaan, E.; Amalia, R.; Koeshandoyo, E.; Citraresmana, E.; Indrayani, L.; Soemantri, Y. and Mahdi, S. (2020). The Lexical Cohesive Devices in the Conceptual Meaning of ‘Hero’: A Pragmatic Discourse Analysis. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - ICELS; ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, SciTePress, pages 138-143. DOI: 10.5220/0008995201380143

@conference{icels20,
author={Elsa Maulita Siahaan. and Rosaria Mita Amalia. and Eko Wahyu Koeshandoyo. and Elvi Citraresmana. and Lia Maulia Indrayani. and Ypsi Soeria Soemantri. and Sutiono Mahdi.},
title={The Lexical Cohesive Devices in the Conceptual Meaning of ‘Hero’: A Pragmatic Discourse Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - ICELS},
year={2020},
pages={138-143},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008995201380143},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - ICELS
TI - The Lexical Cohesive Devices in the Conceptual Meaning of ‘Hero’: A Pragmatic Discourse Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Siahaan, E.
AU - Amalia, R.
AU - Koeshandoyo, E.
AU - Citraresmana, E.
AU - Indrayani, L.
AU - Soemantri, Y.
AU - Mahdi, S.
PY - 2020
SP - 138
EP - 143
DO - 10.5220/0008995201380143
PB - SciTePress