An Analysis of Textual Cohesive Devices in Surah AL-Nas: An Application of Halliday and Hasan's Text Coherence Theory
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Cohesive Devices, Surah AL-Nas, linguistic text analysis, grammatical devices, lexical devices.Abstract
The structure of the text of the Quran has always attracted the attention of researchers from every era. Today, this topic has found a special place in interdisciplinary studies, especially in the field of religious and Quranic knowledge. This study aims to analyze the textual coherence elements in Surah Al-Nas based on the theoretical foundations of textual coherence by Halliday and Hasan within the framework of textual linguistics. Therefore, I examine the textual coherence elements of Surah An-Nas based on the theoretical framework of research, using a descriptive-analytical and statistical method. I collect the research data from the Quran, reliable interpretive sources, and comprehensive software for Quranic interpretations. Through analysis, we have reached some results: the cohesive devices detected in Surah AL-Nas comprise grammatical elements like reference, ellipsis, substitution, coherence, and lexical components such as repetition, super-ordinate, synecdoche, hyponymy, and synonymy. The total count of cohesive devices in Surah AL-Nas amounts to 30. Among these, lexical devices prove to be more effective and contribute more significantly than grammatical cohesive devices to the coherence of textual segments in Surah AL-Nas. The cohesive devices of reference, repetition, and superordinate collectively account for 16.66% of the frequency, surpassing other elements and boasting the highest occurrence rate. Conversely, the usage of synecdoche is 2.77% less prominent compared to these cohesive devices.
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