Anaphora: Journal of Language. Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol 3 No 2 (2020): DECEMBER

THE STYLE OF LANGUAGE IN 5SOS SONGS: VOODOO DOLLS AND INVISIBLE

Berya Kamayan Adi Martinus (Unknown)
Nova Noor Aisyah (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
07 Feb 2021

Abstract

This study aims to describe the figurative language and idioms which include the meaning of the figurative language and idioms that used by 5SOS on their songs: Voodoo Dolls and Invisible. To analyze the data, the stylistics approach that focuses on the lexical level of stylistics is used here. The lexical level is used to analyze the figurative language and the lexical meaning, while the theory that used in this study is following the Targian’s theory to consider the figurative language in the data. The second purposes of this study, is to understand the lexical meaning which using the theory of Chaer. Meanwhile, Parera’s theory about that there are three procedures to find the elements of the meaning of words as follows is also used here. As the result of this study, the language style of 5SOS by analyzing the data are describing youth problems, but not all of the figurative language elements as in Tarigan theory is contained in both of the song lyrics.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ANAPHORA

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Anaphora : Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal, open access, and biannual academic journal dedicated to the publications of research in the areas of language, literature, and culture studies. Anaphora: Journal of Language, Literary and Cultural ...