Analysis of Cohesion in the Literary Work of Dek Ban Doi’s Mala Khamchan

Abstract

This study aimed to study the cohesion in the literary work of Dek Ban Doi’s Mala Khamchan and to analyze the effects of Mala Khamchan's cohesion in the literary work entitled “Dek Ban Doi” of Mala Khamchan, by using the concept of cohesion that the researcher synthesized from cohesion concept of cohesion of Amara's Prasit Ratasin (2009) and Warawat Sriyaphai (2020) based on the six types of cohesion concepts: reference, repetition, ellipsis, substitution, lexicon, and conjunction. Content-descriptive analysis and tabular presentation were used to analyze the data. The result showed that there were six types of cohesion; reference, repetition, ellipsis, substitution, lexicon, and conjunction. The most cohesion used was pronominal reference, personal reference used as pronoun reference. There were 2 characteristics of the cohesion usage; 1) the language expressions, which is clear and easy to understand, and the beautiful and elegant language; and 2) the overall uses of language that expressed the identity of the cohesive language in the literary work of Mala Khamchan's Dek Ban Doi, where there was a lot of cohesive language using and the comparative reference in many paces of the text.