Surakarta English and Literature Journal
Vol 3 No 1 (2020): Volume 3 Number 1 February 2020

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

Novi Eka Purnama Sari (Unknown)
Anindita, Widyashanti (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Feb 2022

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.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

selju

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The aim of SELJU is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers, and practitioners for publishing original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deals with a broad range of topics such as Linguistics, Translation, Literature, and another ...