A STUDY ON PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA IN TEXTBOOK LOOK AHEAD 2 FOR THE ELEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This study describes Pronominal Anaphora constructed in textbook Look Ahead 2. Anaphora is branch of linguistic. Anaphora included the nature of English. The term of anaphora is used to define an expression that used as a reference to another expression or entity in the discourse. Pronominal anaphora is one of the types of anaphora. Pronominal anaphora is the most common type in which a referent is referred by a pronoun. This study uses textbook Look Ahead 2 for the eleventh grade students of senior high school as the object. The objective of this study is to find out the anaphoric word and the antecedent in the sentences of texts Look Ahead 2 for the eleventh grade students of senior high school. This study uses descriptive qualitative method to answer the statement of the problem. The data are collected from textbook Look Ahead 2 for the eleventh grade students of senior high school. There are five kinds of text on Look Ahead 2, as follows; report text, narrative text, analytical exposition, spoof and hortatory exposition. The result of this study shows that pronominal anaphora is dominantly used in narrative text 198 or 67%, then it is followed by report text 38 or 13%, hortatory exposition 25 or 9%, spoof 20 or 7% and analytical exposition 13 or 4%. Total of pronominal anaphora is 624. Finally, this study suggests that the next researcher could investigate the study of anaphora deeply in different object, context or different point of view and analyze more specific.