Discourse Analysis of Japanese Language Tales Saru to Kani, Ten no Hagoromo, and Inaba no Shirousag

This study discusses the cohesion marker contained in Japanese fairy tales. The purpose of this
research is to identify the cohesiveness of the form of fairy tale discourse in the form of cohesive marker contained in the fairy tale "Saru to Kani, Ten no Hagoromo, and Inaba no Shiro Usagi". This research is qualitative descriptive research. The method used in data collection is the listening method with basic tapping techniques, followed by note-taking techniques. Data analysis was carried out using the equivalent method with the basic technique of Sorting Determining Elements (PUP). The results are presented using an informal descriptive method. Based on the results of the analysis, grammatical cohesion markers have been found in fairy tales, namely references, substitutions, ellipsis, and conjunctions. In addition, lexical cohesion markers were also found, namely repetition, synonyms, antonyms, and collocations. The
endophoric references in the anaphoric category are the most frequently found marker of grammatical cohesion, while ellipsis is the fewest. In the lexical cohesion marker, the most repetition is found, while the least is synonyms