AN ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC IMPLICATURES AND MESSAGES IN ‘GENERATIONS’ FROM EXILE TRIBE’S ENGLISH VERSION SONGS

Rafilda, Hanifa (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF PRAGMATIC IMPLICATURES AND MESSAGES IN ‘GENERATIONS’ FROM EXILE TRIBE’S ENGLISH VERSION SONGS. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Implicature is a message that does not stated explicitly in an utterance. The phenomenon of implicature is became common and confusing people. It occurs in daily conversation, novel, news, film script, announcement, advertisement, and even a song. There is just a few research that conducted to analyze implicature in song. The subject of this research is ‗Generations‘ from Exile Tribe English Version Songs. This research is aimed to analyze the type, meaning, and message of the three songs of ‗Generations‘ from Exile Tribe that sang in English version. The researcher chose the song with motivational lyrics which can motivate people. In this research, the songs are 少年 (red Shonen, means boys), Hard Knock Days, and Always with You. This research conducted with content analysis as the research design. Content analysis is the one of qualitative method branch that done by analyze a written object such as news report, novel, or song lyric. The data collecting techniques that the researcher used are recording, documentation, and interview. The instrument of this research is the researcher herself and questions. There are four steps in conducting this research, they are data collecting, data condensation, data analysis, and drawing conclusion. The result of this research is in the song titled 少年 (red Shonen, means boy), the researcher found 24 data of implicatures in 18 lyrics. The 24 data consist of three data of conventional implicatures (12.5%), seven data of scalar implicature (29.2%), seven data of generalized conversational implicature (29.2%), and seven data of particularized conversational implicature (29.2%). While in the song titled Hard Knock Days, which had 47 data of implicatures in 35 lyrics. The 47 data consists of four types of implicature, which are 10 data of conversational implicatures (21.3%), 12 data of scalar implicatures (25.5%), 12 data of generalized conversational implicature (25.5%), and 13 data of particularized conversational implicature (27.7%). Lastly, in the song titled Always with You, the researcher found 21 data of implicature in 14 lyrics of this song, which are five data of conventional implicature (23.8%), seven data of scalar implicature (33.3%), four data of generalized conversational iii implicature (19%), and five data of particularized conversational implicature (23.8%). It can be concluded that conversational implicature is the most frequent type that occur in the songs. Keywords: Generations from Exile Tribe, implicatures, message

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