An Investigation of Lexical Cohesion on Indonesian Singer Song

Abstract

This paper sheds light on investigating the lexical cohesion on an Indonesian singer song entitled Coke Bottle by Agnez Mo. Lexical cohesion constitutes linguistic devices that help to create cohesiveness of the text. Lexical cohesion occurs when two words or more in a text are semantically related somehow – in other words, they are related in terms of their meaning. This study's design was a descriptive qualitative that attempted to elaborate the discourse analysis about lexical cohesion in Coke Bottle song by Agnez Mo. Some steps were conducted to collect the data, firstly, the lyrics that become the documentation were collected by the researcher from lyrics.com, secondly the researcher read the lyrics to understand the text. Thirdly, marking some words included as lexical cohesions in which they will be the real data of this study. The findings revealed that reiteration and collocation are found in the song, but the antonym that is part of reiteration is absent. Above all, repetition is the most commonly used in this song, especially the word I. This seems to indicate that the songwriter tried to make the song's lyrics match the music's beat, so the song became easy listening, and the listeners can enjoy the music.

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“…The findings also indicated that repetition has made the song deeper and increased the emotion of the hearer. A similar finding was shown in the study by Murodi, Hidayat, and Alek (2021) when they analyse the lexical cohesion of the song. They found that repetition was mostly used in the songs.…”

“…Most studies have been focused on the analysis of grammatical and lexical cohesion in song lyrics (e.g. Murodi et al, 2021;Putri, 2022;Sari & Anindita, 2020;Sholah, & Yunus, 2020;Telaumbanua, 2021). For example, Sholah and Yunus (2020) conducted a study that focuses on the lexical and grammatical cohesion in a song by adapting Halliday and Hasan`s (1976) lexical cohesion model.…”

“…In relation to lexical cohesion research, there have been many studies that have investigated this topic (see Malah & Rashid, 2017;Mirzapour & Ahmadi, 2011;Mandarani, 2020;Murodi et al, 2021;Pernando & Rahima, 2017;Putri, 2022;Sari et al, 2018;Sari & Anindita, 2020), such as Mirzapour and Ahmadi (2011) who analyzed lexical cohesion of the English and Persian scientific article. The findings revealed that repetition was the method of cohesion that appeared most often.…”

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“…In line with these ideas, Yuwono in the book entitled Pesona bahasa langkah awal memahami linguistik (The charm of language is the first step to understanding linguistics) in 2005 also adds that lexical cohesion is an inter-semantic relationship forming discourse by utilizing lexical elements or words. Then Murodi, Hidayat, and Alek (2021), Sari, Mujiyanto, and Rukmini (2022), and as explained by Halliday & Hasan in the book entitled Cohesion in English in 1976 that lexical cohesion can be achieved through reiteration and collocation. Reiteration includes repetition, synonymy, antonymy, and hyponymy.…”

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