REGISTERAL REPRESENTATION OF LYRICS IN OASIS SONG
A THESIS
Submitted to as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
By:
RIO SITORUS
Registration Number.2123220032
ENGLISH AND LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS
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ABSTRACT
Sitorus, Rio. 2123220032. Registeral Representation of Lyrics in Oasis Song. A Thesis. Faculty of Languages and Arts. State University of Medan. 2017.
This study was an analysis and identify the registeral representation of lyrics in Oasis song. This aimed to analyzed what register are implied and why the register realized in the lyrics of Oasis song. The data was analyzed by Halliday’s theory about the three dimensions of register analysis; field tenor and mode, and identified by Joos’ theory of five language register; static (frozen), formal, consultative, casual, and intimate of five selected lyrics song of Oasis; Gas Panic, Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is, Half the World Away, Underneath the Sky and Wonderwall. The data analysed and identified in the form of text, sentence, clause, phrase and word. The descriptive-qualitative method was used in the analyzing of three dimensions of register and identifying the language register. The result of the study had been discovered and clarified the registeral representation the lyrics by explained the result based on the the theory.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, the writer would like to thanks to Allah SWT and the Prophet Muhammad SAW for the blessings during his academic years at English and Literature Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts (FBS), the State University of Medan, in completing the thesis. The writer also would like extend his thanks to the following people:
Prof. Dr. Syawal Gultom, M.Pd., the Rector of State University of
Medan.
Dr. Isda Pramuniati, M.Hum., the Dean of Faculty of Languages and
Arts (FBS) State University of Medan.
Prof. Dr. Hj. Sumarsih, M.Pd., the Head of English and Literature
Department as well as Dra. Meisuri, M.A., the Secretary of English and Literature Department for their encouragement and motivation during the writing of the thesis. Syamsul Bahri, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of English Literature Program and Nora Ronita Dewi, S.Pd, S.S, M.Hum., the Head of English Education Program for their encouragement to complete the thesis.
Prof. Amrin Saragih, M.A., Ph.D., his First Consultant, who had always
motivated him to finish the thesis by giving advices, supervising, giving comments and corrections during completing this thesis and also for Elisa
Betty Manullang, S.S., M.Hum., as his Second Consultant, who always
gave him spirit in supervising, comments and correction and also Safrida
Lubis, S.Pd., M.Hum., as his Academic Advisor for giving advices and
supervising during his academic year.
Eis Sri Wahyuni, M.Pd., the Administration Staff of English Department,
who helped him to fulfill this thesis.
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His beloved parents, Heri Paula Sitorus and Jumi Silalahi, who have patiently given her encouragement, financial support, their love and prayers, as well as his beloved sisters and brothers, Juliana Sitorus; Rina
Sitorus; Rivana Sitorus; Ricki D. Sitorus, S.Kom; Rita Sitorus; Rizal Sitorus; Sela; Yuniar, who had been good siblings all the time, and his
lover Rendina Pradipta, who has been gave him spirit from her support. His beloved friends Aguni, S.S; Boy, S.S; Anto, S.S; Paldi, S.S; Tyo,
S.S; Juli, S.S; Ridho, S.S; Reza, S.S; DonJo, S.S; DonSe, S.S; Via, S.S; Diah, S.S; Syulika, S.S; Anjas, S.S; Dede, S.S, and all his friends and
classmates in English Literature B 2012 and Literature A 2012 for the support and time in motivated and accompanied him during the academic year.
His beloved community, members of CSKA Belawan, Alumnus 9, PLC and Community of Vespa in Medan
Medan, April 2017 The writer,
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CHAPTER IV. DATA AND DATA ANALYSIS
A. Data ... 31
B. Data Analysis... 31
C. Research Finding ... 51
D. Discussions ... 52
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION A. Conclusion ... 54
B. Suggestion ... 55
REFERENCES ... 56
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LIST OF TABLES
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Table 2.1 Language of register ... 24
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LIST OF FIGURE
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LIST OF APPENDIX
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. The Bacground of the Study
An essential thing to people communicate is a language. Language has a lot of function in daily life. People use language for different purpose for communication, persuation, information, introduction, negotiation, and for
socialization. It is called essential due to the role of it is very important to the maintance of human life. Without language, they will difficult to
interact with other. Through communication process, they can change their minds, ideas, thoughts, and intentions. They can also deliver messages to others. In conducting communication, people need a medium to express
their intentions and messages. Warduagh (1992: 8) states that language allows people to say things to each other and expresses communicate need.
In short, language is constantly used by humans in their daily life as a means of communication.
Basically, communication used by more than one person. For most people,
Biber and Conrad (2009: 1) state that communication is the most common type of spoken language that they produce. But people typically listen to
many different kinds of spoken language: television shows, commercials, radio or television news reports, classroom lectures, political speeches,
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language is for communicating. Therefore, while language is used, it needs the addressee as the informant and the addresser as the information taker.
Both of those communicators will be having in a context, where the topic talks about. Context can be defined as anything that accompanies a text. In
context, a text devided into two part spoken and written. In spoken form it involves the number of speakers, and in written form usually signalled by punctuation. According to Halliday (2002: 55), the enviroment, or social
context, of language is structured as a field of significant social action, a tenor of role relationship and a mode of symbolic organization. Taken
together these constitute the situation or context of situation of a text. It means that the context of situation is technically termed registers).
According to Halliday (1985 : 29), register is variety of language based
on the speaker. It means that language which is used based on what is being done and the nature of its activities. In certain group or community,
the people who live there usually use the language that is different from others. According to Halliday (1985 : 29), the linguistic features (specific expressions, lexico-grammatical and phonological features) and the
particular values of the three dimensions of field, mode and tenor determine the functional variety of a language. These three parameters can
be used to specify the context of situation in which language is used. Field of discourse focuses on the entire situation, mode of discourse determines
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People and a song can not be separated in life. A song is a single (and often stand alone) work of music intended to be sung by the human voice
with distinct and fixed pitches and patterns using sound and silence and a variety of forms that often include the repetition of sections. Written words
created specifically for music or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics or texts. Lyric is words that make up a song usually consisting of verses and choruses, in making process is not seldom the
songwriters use the uniqueness word in it sometimes make the audiences difficult to get the intent of comprehension due to the use of language
variation. Such as, some distinctive features that give the song their identity, the integrated features, recurrent features, and also the striking
and marked use of word in order to enhance effective transfer of message. Based on that problem, the researcher is interested in analyzing the register variation in selected songs of Oasis in order to help the audience
understand the purpose of the texts Oasis Songs. The researcher selected the texts of Oasis because many songs from its interest to analyse in order
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B. The Problem of the Study
With refersed to the problems of study are formulated as the following :
1. What registeral representation are implied in the lyrics of Oasis song?
2. Why are the registeral represention realized in the lyrics of Oasis
song?
C. The Objective of the Study
Related to the problems the objectives of the study are :
1. to discover registeral representation are implied the lyrics of Oasis song.
2. to clarify the registeral representation in the lyrics of Oasis song.
D. The Scope of the Study
This study is focus on analyzing five of Oasis song (Gas Panic, Put Yer Money where Yer Mouth is, Half the World Away, Underneath the Sky, and
Wonderwall). All of them put from various albums of Oasis, where according
the researcher lyric of them representative of register.
E. The Significance of the Study
Finding of the study are expected to after significance theoretically and
practically.
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1. Theoretically, finding of the study can :
a. enriches sources of registeral study and adding new horizon to
linguistics study, and
b. become reference for further study.
2. Practically, finding of the study can be used :
a. to described register variable: field, mode and tenor.
b. to be sources for the texts song, especially Oasis’ fans in
Indonesia.
c. to give information how to create a good songs according to the
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