Name : Musyawirah Salman

NPM : 201052501073
Class : D- Discourse Analysis

Final Task
“Analyzing the cohesion and coherence a passage of written discourse paragraph,
with the length 500-600 words!”

Paragraph:

Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender
equality is your issue, too. Because to date, I’ve seen my father’s role as a parent being
valued less by society, despite my need of his presence as a child, as much as my
mother’s. I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help for
fear it would make them less of a man. In fact, in the UK, suicide is the biggest killer of
men between 20 to 49, eclipsing road accidents, cancer and coronary heart disease. I’ve
seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male
success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.

This paragraph can be analyzing by looking for Grammatical Cohesion, Conjunction, Lexical
Cohesion and Collocation.

Grammatical Cohesion

Reference

1. Personal Reference

Personal references in the eleventh paragraph are I, them, and it as personal pronoun,
your, my, and his as possessive adjective. I and my refer to the speaker (Emma
Watson), your and them refer to men. The pronoun "your" which is used by the
speaker to emphasize that gender inequality is not only a women's problem, but also
men issue too. Then, it refers to mental illness and an unable of men to ask for help that
suffered by a man. This makes him not able to do much, even to ask for help.
Moreover, man becomes brittle and feeling discomfort because of the distortion of his
 success. Some cases proved that men have weaknesses in certain side. For the example
is the father of Emma.
his refers to Emma’s father. Emma describes about her father. Father's role as the
parents seems less in the public. Though, Emma feels the presence of her father to
fulfill her needs just like her mother. But in society is different. This indicates that the
role of father is never same as the role of mother. Implicitly, the speaker explains that
men do not always have the strength in everything.
2. Demonstrative Reference
Demonstrative reference is only this. This refers to a man who become a supporter of
the campaign. Because, in the next sentence, Emma emphasized about “gender
equality is your issue”, which is your refers to men and boys.
3. Comparative Reference
Comparative reference is only as much as as the comparative, that refers to the
comparison between Emma’s father and Emma’s mother role.

Conjunction
1. Adversative Conjunction
Adversative conjunction in this paragraph is only despite.
2. Clausal Conjunction
Causal conjunction in this paragraph is only because to date.

Lexical Cohesion
1. Repetition
The speaker repeats men for many times. Therefore, this paragraph is the peak of
Emma Watson's speech. It strengthens to the listeners (audience) if gender equality is
men’s issue too. In addition, men are the main target to achieving this campaign.
2. Synonym
men with male are synonym in this paragraph.
3. Superordinate
Father and mother are superordinate to parents.
4. General Word
The biggest killer refers to general word of suicide, eclipsing road, cancer, coronary.

Collocation

There are two collocations, gender equality and father mother.