Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET)
Vol 6, No 2 (2022)

Types of Lexical Cohesion in Song Lyrics of The Greatest Showman Movie Soundtrack Album

Sebrina Wijayanti (Universitas Bengkulu)
Zahrida Zahrida (Universitas Bengkulu)
Mulyadi Mulyadi (Universitas Bengkulu)



Article Info

Publish Date
04 Jun 2022

Abstract

This research aim to finds out types and the most dominant of lexical cohesion used in the song lyrics The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album. The methodology of this research is descriptive quantitative method. The objects of this research are 5 song lyrics in The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album namely “A Million Dreams, Never Enough, This Is Me, The Other Side and Rewrite The Stars. The data were collected by using observation sheet and table checklist. The collected data were analyzed by using statistical formula. The result of this research showed that:1. All types of lexical cohesion namely repetition, synonym, superordinate, general words and collocation were found in the song lyrics The Greatest Showman movie soundtrack album. 2. The most dominant type of lexical cohesion is Repetition. It was concluded that repetition occurred dominantly because the composer or writer want to tell the reader and listener that the focus of discourse is in the words which have been repeated to emphasize certain meanings in order to attract attention listeners and to enhance beauty in songs.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JEET

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Journal of English Education and Teaching (JEET) with online ISSN 2622-5867 is a journal which is published four times a year in December, March, June, and September. We accept mainly research-based articles related to English Education and Teaching. The articles must be in ...