LANGUAGE STYLE IN MICHAEL JACKSON’S SELECTED SONG LYRICS

ALIFAH, RETNO NUUR (2015) LANGUAGE STYLE IN MICHAEL JACKSON’S SELECTED SONG LYRICS. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Alifah, RetnoNuur. Student Registered Number.3213113133. 2015. Language Style in Michael Jackson’s Selected Song Lyrics. Sarjana Thesis. English Education Department.Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung. Advisor: Dr. NurulChojimah, M.Pd. Keywords:language style, Michael Jackson, song lyrics. Language is essentially important in human life as a means of communication. It is one of the vital factors to create an interaction one another and many ways to create it and set up communication with others by using expression. Many form of expression can express author’s idea. They outpoure their feeling become a text which has message, such as song, poem, novel, drama and many others. The author makes song and writes the lyrics by using language style. Language style is the choice among the other alternatives in using language. It refers to the way to convey the same information by using different expression. To analyze the language style, the writer chose Michael Jackson because Michael Jackson is one of the great music heroes of the late 20th century. The formulation of the research problems were: 1)What language styles are used in Michael Jackson’s selected song lyrics? 2) What are the meanings of language style used in Michael Jackson’s selected song lyrics? The purposes of this study were to: 1) know the language style that used in Michael Jackson’s selected song lyrics, 2) identify the meaning of language style used in Michael Jackson’s selected song lyrics. The research method that writer used: 1) the research design in this study was library research with qualitative approach, 2) the data of this study are utterances containing language style, meanwhile the source of all the data are taken from Michael Jackson’s selected song lyrics, 3) the data collected by documentation, 4) the step of data analysis are: a) reading the whole song lyrics to find some language styles, b) determining each stanza containing language styles, c) classifying the language styles found into its styles, d) making conclusion. The result of this study showed that Michael Jackson’s selected song contain into language styles. There are eleven language styles in 15 Michael Jackson’s song lyrics. The language style involves simile, hyperbole, repetition, personification, symbol, apostrophe, rhetoric, asyndeton, hysteron proteron, euphemism, metaphor, and simile is the dominant. The data are: 20 simile, 13 hyperbole, 10 repetition, 8 personification, 5 symbol, 2 apostrophe, 2 rhetoric, 2 asyndeton, 1 hysteron proteron, 1 euphemism, 1 and metaphor. The conclusion is based on summary of the finding and analyzing of the language style found in Michael Jackson’s song lyrics. Based on the finding, there are eleven language style found in Michael Jackson’s song lyrics. They are (a) simile, (b) hyperbole, (c) repetition, (d) personification, (e) symbol, (f) apostrophe, (g) rhetoric, (h) asyndeton, (i) hysteron proteron, (j) euphemism, and (k) metaphor and language style which mostly appears is simile. The researcher proposes some suggestion, but this does not mean that it has perfect finding. For the readers and the further researcher who are interested in analyzing literary works about song lyrics. It is suggested to understand the whole of song. Understanding the language style will make them easier to catch the meaning, even the theme of the song. For the further researcher, it is hoped that this thesis can be used as referenced to conduct another research on language style in other object.

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