Agrecia Fransiska Raya (20091102129)
English Literature Sam Ratulangi University
Abstract
This study aims to analyze the lexical and grammatical aspects of the lyrics of the song "Try". The meaning of the song "Try" is about a relationship that "ends breaking up", but in the lyrics of this song it gives a moral message "to give encouragement to rise from pain, disappointment, and emptiness". In addition to the lyrics, which mean "spirit," the notes composed in this song also have an encouraging effect on anyone who hears it. This study examines the cohesiveness of discourse in terms of grammatical and lexical aspects that underlie lyrical discourse. Based on this, the type of research is qualitative research. Qualitative research involves the collection and analysis of non-numeric data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. Based on the results of the study, the researchers found the lexical aspects contained in the lyrics of the song "Try." In the lyrics of the song "Try," there is repetition, namely the repetition of simlokes. Simloke repetition is the repetition of lingual units at the beginning and end of several consecutive lines or sentences. Synonym (equivalent) is a word or expression that means the same as another word or expression. A collocation is a combination of two or more words that form a term. The grammatical aspect is the outer structure of the discourse or the form of the term, which is analyzed based on three aspects. These aspects are reference, deletion (ellipsis), and concatenation (conjunction).
Keyword: lexical aspects, grammatical aspects, lyrics of the song "Try" by Pink
Preliminary
Background
Every song written by a musician always contains a deep meaning or message in each of the lyrics. Listeners are invited to interpret each word for word through the brain, where listeners can create scenarios in their brains through fragments of the song lyrics based on experience and knowledge. In communication, the process of conveying symbols can be done through music, music is an effective way of delivering messages because it is easier digested and understood by listeners.
Lyrics can be said to be one of the written works of art whose shape is similar to poetry. The language in the lyrics is dense, short, rhythmic, has a consistent sound and is rich in figurative word choices. The song is an expression of the singer's feelings and emotions (Jamalus, 1988, p. 5). Its function as an entertainment medium, which has targeted information, is easy to hear and understand so that the desired message can be conveyed correctly to the listener.
The song "Try" by Pink is about a relationship that "ends breaking up" but the lyrics of this song give a moral message "to give encouragement to rise from pain, disappointment and emptiness". In addition to the lyrics, which mean "Spirit". The notes composed in this song also have an encouraging effect for anyone who hears it.
Lexical meaning is the smallest meaning unit in the meaning system of language that could be distinguished from other similar units. A lexeme is an abstract unit. It can occur in many forms of actual spoken or written sentences. It is regarded as the same lexeme even when inflected. According to Harimurti (1982:103), in Mansoer Pateda book said that lexical meaning is the meaning of the word when the word is seen in isolation, either in form or shape lexeme affixes whose meaning more or less fixed, as can be read in a particular language dictionary.
Lexical meaning refers to the real meaning, meaning that proper with our sense of observation, or granted meaning. It has been known that a language has amount of lexical system by which the semantic with structure could be based its meaning on paradigmatic and systematical. The researcher said that lexical meaning could be defined as a meaning which has a characteristic of lexicon, lexeme and word. It also has a meaning as it reference, meaning which is result of our observation through our sense, or the reality in our life. Not all lexeme were word-lexeme or lexeme whose forms are words forms. Many of them would be phrasal lexeme whose forms were phrases.
Grammatical meaning could also be regarded as a structural or functional meaning, or internal meaning. According to Mansoer Pateda (2001:103), grammatical meaning is the meaning that arises as a result of the functioning of words in a sentence. It means that, every language has a grammatical system and different language have somewhat different grammatical system. Grammatical meaning is the meaning of the phrase that is enclosed. This means the grammatical meaning of each language is limited and could not be changed or replaced in a long time’s. Grammatical meaning of a language could be interpreted. It is fixed in accordance with the language user community.
Discourse analysis is a language study based on a pragmatic approach, which means studying language discourse in its use. In this case, language users must recognize the discourse well, so that the message in the discourse can be accepted and does not cause misinterpretation. Sentences as part of discourse require cohesion markers which not only serve as a connecting tool for structural units, but also function semantically. Therefore, cohesion markers are not only related to form (grammatical cohesion) but also to meaning (lexical cohesion). A cohesive discourse will affect the clarity of the relationship between one form unit and another so that the message to be conveyed is clear and complete.
Methods
This study examines the cohesiveness of discourse in terms of grammatical and lexical aspects that underlie the lyric discourse. Based on this, the type of this research is qualitative research.
Qualitative research involves the collection and analysis of non-numeric data (e.g., text, video, or audio) to understand concepts, opinions, or experiences. It can be used to gather in-depth insight into a problem or generate new ideas for research. Qualitative research is the opposite of quantitative research, which involves the collection and analysis of numerical data for statistical analysis.
The source of data in this study is the lyrics of the song "Try" by Pink. This research technique uses qualitative methods by taking samples or documentation from several previous studies on the analysis of lexical and grammatical meanings. Data collection technique, the writer collects data from one of the platforms, namely YouTube to get the lyrics of the song "Try".
