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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study analyzes the coherence form of an article in a
newspaper. Coherence deals with the concepts that underlie the text,
therefore the coherence problems are more complicated than cohesion
problem which deals with the surface text
The basic theory of this study is the theory of coherence by de
Beaugrande and Dessler. According to them the basic foundation of
coherence is the continuity of sense of the text. The continuity of sense
can be formed by the configuration of concepts and relations and the
textual world is accessible and relevance. Concepts are divided into two
groups: primary and secondary concepts. One primary concept is acted as
the control centre which underlies all the concepts in the text Relations
are characterized by the secondary concepts and set of operators.
This study uses qualitative approach and the design based on the
continuity of sense. The data are taken from an article entitled "Jamu
carries stigma of being unscientific" by Gedsiri Suhartono. Hie data are in
the form of units which are equivalent of paragraphs in the article. The
coherent units have the control centre as well as their primary concepts
or they have a primary concept which becomes the equivalent of control
centre. In the coherent units exist the discontinuity in which the relation
between the control centre and their primary concept is missing.
Therefore, they need a regulatory operator namely inferencing to bind
the control centre and primary concept together.
From the analysis it is found that the object concept 'jamu' is the
control centre of this article. Most of the units in the text are coherent,
and they are divided into two group. In the first group, 'jamu' becomes
the control centre and their primary concepts. The second group has
other concept as their primary concept. It is also found that there are
several discontinuities exist in several paragraphs. Those problems can be
solved by iuterencing procedure vvJiich gives reasonable concepts and
relations for those discontimiities