Abstract
The objectives of this research are: 1) to identify and describe the use of the item of lexical cohesion devices in John Cheever's short story The Five Forty-Eight and; 2) to explain lexical cohesive devices contribute to building up coherence of language expression in the short story. This study focuses on Halliday and Hasan types of lexical cohesion, they are: Repetition, Synonym, Superordinate, General Word, and Collocation. Then the data were analyzed using descriptive qualitative method, and the source of the data is The Five Forty-Eight story text. The documentation study method has been used to collect the data from the short story. The analysis result shows that all the types of lexical cohesion were found in the story, there are: repetition (58,8%), synonym (7,4%), superordinate (5,5%), general word (17,1%), and collocation (11,1%). This study finds out that repetition, general word and collocation are the most frequently types used in the short story.