A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

This study, ‘A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water’ examines how meaning is negotiated through the use some cohesive devices in text. Previous studies have concentrated treatment environmental issues without much attention paid to are coalesced text produce meaning. Data for analysis range from page one hundred primary text, Water. Also, study focused a qualitative research procedure and adopted Halliday Hasan’s (1976) cohesion theory as theoretical model, since this work focuses deployment writer’s mental schemata lexical choices affect The observes that words cannot stand isolation, they related each other predetermined was achieved author’s careful such as: reiteration, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy meronymy, which improve textual quality concludes author, devices, made reading meaningful easily understood by reader.