A DEIXIS ANALISYS OF SONG LYRICS IN EDSHEERAN “DEVIDE” ALBUM

ERY, FEBIANA (2024) A DEIXIS ANALISYS OF SONG LYRICS IN EDSHEERAN “DEVIDE” ALBUM. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

A DEIXIS ANALISYS OF SONG LYRICS IN EDSHEERAN “DEVIDE” ALBUM By: ERY FEBIANA Deixis is the use of general words and phrases to refer to a specific time, place or person in context. e.g, the words tomorrow, there, and they.Deixis makes the meaning of language more organized and effective so that it does not cause confusion and does not cause different perceptions of language recipients. Deixis is needed in language use because deixis identifies a meaning contained in language and is only known when it is in the context of language events or situations. Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The lyrics of song which representation of the composer's emotion and intention to describe their feelingssuch as love, struggle, trouble, jealousy, peace, become a way to make a beauty communicating. Song is a musical composition intended to be perfomed by the human voice. The researcher concludes that this research will know a deixis analysis of Song lyric in Edsheeran “DEVIDE” album, which aims to know how is the procces to search types deixis in song lyrics by a deixis analysis. Base on analysis, the researcher concluded that there were three types of person deixis that used by songwriter in song lyrics, namely first person deixis, second person deixis, and third person deixis. Person deixis that was mostly used by the songwriter in song lyrics was first person that is pronoun “I”. It was because the songwriter wanted telling about her own life story such as about love story, faith, longing, and losing. Therefore, the researcher concluded that deixis was helpful to explain function of pronoun, demonstrative word, and time which was linking to speaker‟s utterance which iv related to space and time. To answer research questions, the researcher concluded that deixis meaning could be examined semantically to know the real meaning of sentence or word and how the influence of deixis for entire song lyrics meaning. Song lyrics analysis had various interpretations that depended on the listener or the singer‟s life experience and deixis found in was not specific on particular event or people. It was because song context did not relate to one specific setting and participant. Key word: Deixis, Ed Sheeran, Devide Album

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