Lexical Cohesion Used In Food And Travel Column In The Tempo Magazine

Key Words: Lexical Cohesion, Tempo MagazineLanguage is divided into two kinds, the first is spoken language which is typicallyassociated by linguistic with conversation that is produced, processed and thenevaluated in the context of face to face exchange, and the second is writtenanguage which is typically associated with the language of books andexplanatory prose as found in schools. In this study the authors analyzed lexicalcohesion on Tempo Magazine. Tempo is an Indonesian weekly magazine thatgenerally covers news and politics published by Tempo media group. This studyuses Halliday and Hasan theory to analyze. This research uses descriptivequalitative analysis method. This method provides complete information, tells andnterperts existing data. This study uses content analysis for collecting the data.The data used in tempo magazines are December 14th 2017, December 17th 2017,December 19th 2017, and December 22nd 2017 in the food and travel columns.The writer collects the data by printing screen and reading on the website Tempomagazine en.tempo.co then the writer collects lexical cohesion device then maket into the table which then described one by one into several tables. In thisresearch the writer found type and meaning of lexical cohesion. The type ofexical cohesion used in Tempo magazine there are six kinds of lexical itemsfound are repetition, synonym, antonym, meronym, hyponym, and collocation.While the meaning of lexical cohesion use in Tempo Magazine are repetitionwhich is a repeated word and does not change meaning, synonym means differentword but same meaning, antonym means that two word with opposite meaningbut still in one line of group, hyponym means a word has many meanings andforms but still in one sense, meronym means a part or component something,collocation means a two or more word often use together for form a unity ofmeaning. The conclusion from this research in food and travel coloumn in TempoMagazine lexical cohesion found has a function to explain and emphasize whathe news writers means to their readers.