A comparative study of ideational meaning between the love song lyrics written by the most popular american song writers in 1990s and indonesian song writers in 2000s (a study based on systemic functional linguistics)

Oleh :
Ratih Wulan Sari - C0305058 - Fak. Sastra dan Seni Rupa

ABSTRACT The research focuses on the ideational meaning analysis of love song lyrics written by American and Indonesian song writers. The objectives of the research are to find the ideational meaning of love song lyrics written by American and Indonesian song writers, and the similarities and differences between both groups of lyrics. The research belongs to descriptive qualitative research and applied qualitative method. The researcher applied purposive sampling to collect the data and total sampling to analyze the data by taking all the clauses. The data of this research were Jim Brickman’s and Dianne Warren’s lyrics as American song writers and Swara Wimayoga’s and Arina Ephipania’s lyrics as Indonesian song writers. The data were observed and analyzed by analyzing lexicogrammar system: transitivity and group system to find out the experiential meaning, clause system, group system, and conjunctive relations to find out the logical meaning, and interpreting the texts. Finally, the researcher compared the analyzed texts to find out the similarities and differences between the ideational meaning between the love song lyrics written by American and Indonesian song writers. The research focuses on the song lyrics having the same theme that is love someone. The research findings show that both groups of text are different in transitivity system but similar in theme, text structure, and logical structure. The research findings also show that the logical relation of both groups of text is in accordance with the nature of English language. The correlation of conjunctive relation results the staging of text structure. All texts written by American and Indonesian song writers have the same text structure categorized as descriptive poem genre which consists of unstructured staging as title, description, and information. The dominance of simplex nominal group in all texts written by American and Indonesian song writers supports the genre of the text. All those texts are also dominated by the presence of simplex nominal group and verbal group. The ideational meaning analysis of love song lyrics written by song writers from two different countries are obviously influenced by many aspects. Therefore, the researcher recommends the other researchers to comprehensively consider the writer’s cultural background and the context of each text. Due to the similarities between song lyric and poem, the researcher also recommends the others to consider the metaphor in analyzing song lyrics.