Discourse Assigment 1

Dessy Peruanti
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Discourse Class A


1. Discourse is a linguistic unit which more larger than sentence usually extended expression of thought on a subject.
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Tough Times

The Jakarta Post, June 2009

            The global financial crisis has rocked the world, and its effects are being felt in these parts, too. A onetime favorite restaurant in Kuningan, South Jakarta, closed its doors recently due to poor business, a few friends of friends have lost their jobs and media report a downturn in ad placements after the brouhaha of the election campaign.

            But it’s still hard to figure out the real impact of the crisis on Indonesia, as contributing writer Maggie Tiojakin finds in the cover story this month. Some are saying that its effects will be limited, because the local economy is more reliant on global powerhouse China than the US. Others are sounding a more cautionary note, warning that the crisis this time is unlike anything we have experienced before, including the 1998 regional downturn.

            Indonesia has been through a lot in its young history and continues to endure, much like the venerable Taman Sari restaurant that we profile in this issue. It is also planning to change with the times, while still retaining its classic core.

Cohesion and Deixis

1.  The global financial crisis has rocked the world, and its effects are being felt in these parts, too.

~ The word its refers to the word The global financial crisis. (Substitution)

~ The phrase felt in refers to Spatial Deixis.

2. A onetime favorite restaurant in Kuningan, South Jakarta, closed its doors recently due to poor business, a few friends of friends have lost their jobs and media report a downturn in ad placements after the brouhaha of the election campaign.

~ The word its refers to the A onetime favorite restaurant.  (Substitution)

~ The word their refers to a few friends. (Personal Reference)

~ The word and signals the presentation of causality information. (Conjunction)

~ The word after signals the presentation of temporality information. (Conjunction)

~ The phrase downturn in refers to Spatial deixis.

3. But it’s still hard to figure out the real impact of the crisis on Indonesia, as contributing writer Maggie Tiojakin finds in the cover story this month. Spatial deixis

~ The conjunction “but” shows the contrary.

4.  Some are saying that its effects will be limited, because the local economy is more reliant on global powerhouse China than the US.

~ The word because signals the presentation of causality information. (Conjunction)

5.  Others are sounding a more cautionary note, warning that the crisis this time is unlike anything we have experienced before, including the 1998 regional downturn.

~ The word before signals the presentation of temporality information. (Conjunction)

6. Indonesia has been through a lot in its young history and continues to endure, much like the venerable Taman Sari restaurant that we profile in this issue.

~ The word its refers to the Indonesia.  (Substitution)

~ The word and signals the presentation of addition information. (Conjunction)

~ The word we can also be used to denote a segment of a group. (Person Deixis)

7. It is also planning to change with the times, while still retaining its classic core.

~ The word its refers to the times.  (Substitution)