REFERENCE IN EYESHIELD 21 COMIC BOOK

The objectives of this research were to find out the three types of reference, namely: Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, and Comparative Reference and the dominant one used in Eyeshield 21 Comic book. And also to find out the three pattern of using reference, namely: Anaphoric Reference, Cataphoric Reference, and Exophoric Reference and the dominant one used in Eyeshield 21 Comic book. This research was conducted by using quantitative descriptive design. It took five chapters of Eyeshield 21 comic book taken from the Internet. The result of analyzing found three types of of reference and the use reference were used in the chapters of Eyeshield 21 comic book, they were: Personal Reference, Demonstrative Reference, Comparative Reference. Also Anaphoric Reference, Cataphoric Reference, and Comparative Reference. The total of Personal Reference was 40.8% (402 items), Demonstrative Reference was 31.2% (307 items), and Comparative Reference was 6.1% (60 items). The total of Anaphoric Reference was 8.5% (84 items), Cataphoric Reference was 3.2% (32 items), and Exophoric Reference was 10.2% (101 items). It means that Personal Reference is the most dominant type of reference used in Eyeshield 21 comic book selected chapters with 40.8%. and the most dominant use of reference is Exophoric Reference with 10.2%. Personal Reference is dominant because by using the personal reference in Eyeshield 21 comic book make the reader easy to find the cohesion related to the characters and the purpose of the story each chapter. Besides that the medium used in this research was a comic book that contain of dialog not a paragraph like a novels. Exophoric Reference is dominant because In a dialog its a common the speaker adressess something that revers to the outside of content, in other hand it can be recoverable from the environment of the text. Because of that in the dialog especially in these five destination chapters of Eyeshield 21 exophoric is the dominant pattern