AN ANALYSIS OF REITERATION AND COLLOCATIONFOUND IN THE SONG LYRICS BY THE GROUPBANDFOO FIGHTERS

Idrizal, Idrizal and Elfiondri, Elfiondri and Nova, Rina (2017) AN ANALYSIS OF REITERATION AND COLLOCATIONFOUND IN THE SONG LYRICS BY THE GROUPBANDFOO FIGHTERS. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

Every song lyrics is always found a word or phrases that is repeated or theyhave opposite or contrastive meaning. Beside to make the lyrics more interest, songwriter tends to use the way to stress the implied meaningwhich is wanted to be said to listener. However, there are many listeners donot realize that the thing can be examined in scientifically. Actually, the words that are repeated and the words having opposite meaning are constitute a part of lexical cohesion. In accordance with Brian Paltridge (2006) said, ‘the relationship between words with similar, related, anddif erent meanings’ is called Lexical Cohesion. In this paper the writer analyzes about the lexical cohesion found in the song lyrics by the groupband Foo Fighters. And the data that are analyzed are taken fromthe lyrics of Foo Fighters songs. From all song lyrics of Foo Fighters, the writer chooses six song lyrics that are identified more lexical cohesion found thanother song lyrics. In this paper, the writer found two types of lexical cohesion, they are reiteration—repetition, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, and meronymy and collocation. Meanwhile, both two types of lexical cohesion, the repetition is the kinds of lexical cohesion that is mostlymentioned, while the hyponymy is the kinds of lexical cohesion that is found nothing. Keywords: cohesion, lexical cohesion, reiteration, collocation, song lyric

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