Grammatical Cohesive Devices Used in Greta Thunberg's Speech at United Nation Climate Action Summit: A Discourse Analysis = Grammatical Cohesive Devices Used in Greta Thunberg's Speech at United Nation Climate Action Summit: A Discourse Analysis

The main goal of this study is to conduct a thorough analysis of the various types and functions of grammatical cohesive devices utilized in Greta Thunberg's speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit 2019. Furthermore, this research aims to explore the rationale behind Thunberg's deliberate use of cohesive devices in her speech. In this research, the author uses qualitative descriptive methodology. The data is sourced from Greeta Thunberg's speech video for the UN Climate Action Summit on September 23, 2019, from the YouTube platform. The data was collected by watching Thunberg's speech video and identifying the grammatical cohesive devices she used. The collected data were then analyzed using Halliday and Hasan's theoretical framework on grammatical cohesion, which includes four main categories, namely reference, conjunction, substitution, and ellipsis. The results revealed that Thunberg employed a total of 115 cohesive devices throughout her speech. Among the cohesive devices, references accounted for 86 instances, conjunctions for 28, and 1 instance of ellipsis. In her speech, Thunberg used reference to make it easier to refer to the object's names and avoid repetition, used conjunction to connect equivalent words and express causal relationships, and used Ellipsis to prevent a repetition of the same word in the same sentence.

Keyword : Grammatical cohesive devices; speech