Analysis of the Use of Lexical Cohesion in Leo Tolstoy's Short Stories

Abstract

Reiteration (repetition, synonyms, antonyms, superordinate, general word), and collocations are the subject of research by researchers on lexical cohesion. The aim of this research is to identify the different types of Lexical Cohesion as well as the most common uses of Lexical Cohesion in four short stories written by Leo Tolstoy. In this research, library research was used. The data source comes from four short stories by Leo Tolstoy, namely “Hatred Is Sweet, But God is Strong”, “The Bird”, “The Gray Hare”, “Work Death, and Sickness”. Researchers analyzed data through reduction, display and verification using the Miles and Hubberman’s   model. The research results show that Lexical Cohesion is 393, with 259 repetitions, 1 synonym, 16 superordinate, 29 general words, and 88 collocations for Leo Tolstoy's four short stories. In this study, the repetition type of lexical cohesion was the most common.

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Keywords : Leo Tolstoy; Lexical Cohesion; Short Stories