Journal of English Language and Education
Vol 8, No 1 (2023)

How to Identify Context on Song Lyrics? A Case on Discourse Analysis on Eminem’s Song Entitled “When I’m Gone”

Betty Jeniari Tambunan (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)
Joint Tondang (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)
Yuliska Gurning (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)
Citra Sani Sinaga (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)
Sumiati Butar-Butar (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)
Herman Herman (Universitas HKBP Nommensen)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Apr 2023

Abstract

This research aims to analyzing a song lyric entitiled "When l'm gone by eminem", The theme of the song is about Eminem’s relationship between his daughter and his fans.Eminem’s daughter feels disappointed towards his father because Eminem is always busy with his music business and barely spend his time with his family. Descriptive qualitative research was implemented in this research. The data used was a song entitled ‘When I’m Gone’. This song was selected from internet randomly. This research focused to finding the four context, those are physical, epistemic, social context and Linguistics context.This research used the qualitative approach and the lyric as the data.The result show that all of the pragmatics context are found in this song.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jele

Publisher

Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Journal of English Language and Education (pISSN: 2597-6850 and eISSN: 2502-4132) is a journal that focuses on researching or documenting issues in education, language education, applied linguistics, English education, English language teaching, English Literature, language assessment and ...