The Analysis of the Song Lyrics of the Energy of Asia Music Album from the Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar

Authors

  • Septyana Atik Purwandari UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Didin Nuruddin Hidayat UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7506-4258
  • Waliyadin Waliyadin UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Muhammad Syafii S UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24256/ideas.v10i1.2781

Keywords:

Linguistics, Mood, Song lyrics, Theme-Rheme, Transitivity

Abstract

Music has played a role as the media in modern society. It is used not only to be listened to accompany in doing activities but also as the media to inform people about what is happening around them. This study aims to investigate the most frequent occurrence of mood system and adjunct of each lyric and describe the modality realized in the lyric of Energy of Asia’s album of the 2018 Asian Games, to find the transitivity processes, and to find the textual meaning (theme) of the song lyrics. In this descriptive qualitative research, three song lyrics from the "Energy of Asia" music album released in 2018 were selected, including nonpolitical Asian dance, unbeatable, and dance tonight. The analysis of the data involved some activities, including listening to the songs, finding the printed lyrics of the songs, analyzing the clauses based on the mood residue elements, describing the most frequent used-mood types, seeing the modality finite and mood adjunct, finding the transitivity process, and the textual meaning occurred on the song lyrics and making a conclusion. This paper attempts to reveal how the perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) is employed to analyze song lyrics. The result of this study showed that the message in the lyrics is mostly about the pride of being Indonesian people in celebrating the Asian Games and motivating the players to be the winner in this event.

Author Biographies

Septyana Atik Purwandari, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Septyana is a postgraduate student at Department of English Education, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Didin Nuruddin Hidayat, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Didin is a senior lecturer and Head Department of English Education, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Waliyadin Waliyadin, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Waliyadin is a lecturer at Department of English Education, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta

Muhammad Syafii S, UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau

Syafii is a senior lecturer at Department of English Education, UIN Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau

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Published

2022-07-07

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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2022): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature

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