The Conjunctive Expressions and Their Types in Arabic News Discourse: A Case Study on Indonesia Al-Youm Arabic News Website

Abstract

The purpose of this research is (1) to reveal the use of conjunctive expressions in Arabic news discourse by taking sample on Indonesia al-Youm Arabic news website and (2) to reveal their types on that discourse. As for what is meant by conjunctive expression in this paper is linguistic or grammatical units used to combine words with words, phrases with phrase, clauses with clauses, sentences with sentences, or paragraphs with paragraphs. Thus, the conjunctive expression has the main function as a determinant of a discourse coherence and cohesiveness since it is linking the ideas between sentences or paragraphs. The result of the research showed that conjunctions in the Arabic news discourse, especially in Indonesia al-Youm Arabic news website, were expressed in several grammatical units such as words and phrases. The words capable of delivering the conjunctive expression are the particles of conjunction itself and some particular adverbs. The phrases capable of delivering the conjunctive expression are prepositional and adverbial phrases. Furthermore, the conjunctive expressions found in this Arabic news discourse are divided into four types, they are additive (idhāfī ), adversative (idhrābī ), causal (sababī ), and temporal (zamanī ).
 
 Keywords: Conjunction, Conjunctive Expression, Arabic News Discourse, Indonesia Al-Youm

Cohesive Devices Realization in The Jakarta Post News Editorials: A Discourse Analysis

“…Conjunctions, as mentioned by Yule & Brown (1986), are linguistic components that links words together, phrases together, clauses together, sentences together, and paragraphs together. They are considered to be one of the most important cohesive devices, since they connect ideas between sentences and paragraphs (Arifianto, 2020;Halliday & Hasan, 1976;Mohammed, 2015).…”

“…It functions to reveal and make clear the precise entities and details in any news editorial (Hallock, 2007;Nijat, Karimi & Monib, 2022). Furthermore, the realization of conjuctive elements within the editorials is also crucial in bringing together ideas, building flowing complex sentences, and most importantly, contextualizing the cohesiveness within the texture (Arifianto, 2020;Gutwinski, 1976;Mohammed, 2015;Richardson, 2017;Trask, 2013).…”

“…Most of the studies such as done by Batubara, Rahila & Ridaini (2021) and Puspita, Rizkiyah & Suprijadi (2019) only focused their analysis on lexical cohesion within the Jakarta Post news editorials. Even when several studies such as done by Arifianto (2020), Demantik (2018), Desiyanti & Heriyanto (2015), and Jambak & Gurning (2014) did focus their analysis on the overall types of cohesive devices, the results still gave little contribution to the cohesion realms, since they mostly focus on a single editorial or even only to the headlines. Therefore, importantly, the current study offers a novel finding and insight by attempting to analyze and elucidate the cohesive devices and their realization within three up-to-date The Jakarta Post news editorials.…”