Lexical Cohesion Analysis on Adele’s Songs Lyrics in The Album 25

Authors

  • Novi Eka Purnama Sari University of Surakarta
  • Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita University of Surakarta

Keywords:

Lexical cohesion, lyrics song, adele’song

Abstract

The objectives of this study are to identify the kinds of lexical cohesion used in Adele’s song lyrics in the album 25 and to find out the impact of the most type to hearers. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. Data analysis was performed by categorizing data based on the theory from Halliday and Hasan consisting of reiteration (repetition, synonym, superordinate, general word) and collocation. The final step is to present data and make conclusions. The research findings show that repetition has 34 data with 47%, followed by synonym has 15 data with 21%, superordinate and collocation have 9 data with 12% and general word has 6 data with 8%. Repetition dominates the lexical type of cohesion and general word is the least appear. The impacts of the most type to hearers are repetition makes the meaning of the song deeper and hearers will be deeper in enrolling their emoticons in the song.

Author Biographies

Novi Eka Purnama Sari, University of Surakarta

Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Surakarta

Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita, University of Surakarta

Faculty of Language and Literature, University of Surakarta

References

Arikunto, S. (2006). Prosedure Penelitian Suatu Pendekatan Praktik. Jakarta:Rineka Cipta.

Bahasa Pesona, (2007).Discourse Analisis dalam Lingustik. Jakarta : Sahabat Wacana Indonesia

Frederick, (1988). Analysing Real Texts: Research Studies in Modern English Language. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fromkin, B. (2003). Funding elite sports needs more debate. OPED New Zealand Herald Newspaper. July 17th.

Halliday, M.A.K and Hasan. R. (1976). Cohesion in English. London: Longman.

Kennedy, (1983). The use of lexical cohesion element in the writing of ESL learner.Research in Language. 14(3).

McCharty, Michael. (2000). Discourse Analysis in Languaged Teacher. Cambrigde: Cambridge University Press,. Print.

Moleong, Lexy J. (2009). Metodologi Penelitian Kualitatif Edisi Revisi. Bandung: Remaja Rosdakarya.

Muhlberger, M and Flowerdew. (2009). Lexical Cohesion: Lexical Cohesion and Corpus Linguistics International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 11(3), 363-383.

Nunan, David.1993.Introduction to Discourse Analysis. London: Longman.

Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. (2005). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Paltridge, Brian. (2008). Discourse Analysis. London: Continuum,Print.

Samadi. (1998). Analisis wacana. Discourse Analysis. Jakarta: PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama.

Sugiyono. (2009). Learning in the field: An introduction to qualitative research. London: SAGE publications. In Jurnal Karim F. Muhammad. (2005).An analysis Grammatical and Lexical Cohesion in Sport News Text On the Jakarta Post. Thesis

Tarigan, Heny Guntur.(1987).Pengajaran Wacana.Bandung:CV Angkasa

Widyaswara. (2012). Analisis Wacana Pragmatik. Bandung : Penerbit ANGKASA. (Jurnal Thesis).

Downloads

Published

2022-02-25

How to Cite

Novi Eka Purnama Sari, & Anindita, W. (2022). Lexical Cohesion Analysis on Adele’s Songs Lyrics in The Album 25. Surakarta English and Literature Journal, 3(1), 22–28. Retrieved from https://ejurnal.unsa.ac.id/index.php/selju/article/view/57

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2020): Volume 3 Number 1 February 2020

Section

##section.default.title##

License

Copyright (c) 2022 Novi Eka Purnama Sari, Widyashanti Kunthara Anindita

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Licensing for Data Publication

SURAKARTA ENGLISH AND LITERATURE JOURNAL use a variety of waivers and licenses, that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:
Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.