CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents background of the study,
problem of the study, objective of the
study, scope and limitation of the study, significance of the study, and definition of the key terms.
1.1. Background of the Study Language is the main instrument of
communication; it cannot be separated from
human being. We use language to express our feeling, respond the phenomena, share an idea, and also criticize. Due to
these facts people realize that language plays an important role in their daily life.
In communication with other
people either in oral or written forms; we use language as the media. Here, the language we
used ought to be meaningful and understandable
to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation.
In linguistics, the study about
the sentence of languages is syntax. Gleason (1961: 128) defines syntax as the principles
of arrangement of the construction formed
by the process of derivation and inflection (word) into larger constructions of
various kinds. Further, Hodge (1978: 39)
defines that syntax concerns the discovery of basic sentence types with the description
or thepossible substitutions for each element
of the basic types.
Curme (1931:1) says that syntax
treats of the relation of words or group of words to one another in sentences. It is the
set ofprinciples, or constructive rule, according
to which words are combined into sentences in language.
According to the above
definitions of syntax, it isconcluded that syntax is the arrangement and relationship among words,
phrases, and clauses forming sentences or
larger constructions based on grammatical rules.
Language is also a system of
arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which a social group cooperates (Lyons, 1984: 3-4). By
using language, people can develop their
knowledge and know something. Besides, we also use language to write, speak, and analyze, for example, the lyrics of songs.
Language can also be expressed
through music. The language in music can build a communication to all people. The
people canuse their own language, their own
style to express their feeling and emotion and they can write it into a lyric.
Syllado (1983: 23) states that
music nowadays is regarded as the universal language; music is an art and science of
combining vocal and instrument sound or tone
in varying melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre, especially so as to form structurally complete and emotionally expressive
compositions (Webster, 1988: 894).
In a shorter definition, music
means the arrangement of sound or tones in particular form played on particular instruments.
According to Greek history, music
occupied a main part as an expression of thinking and feeling (Syllado, 1983; IV).
There are many kinds of music
such as rock, jazz, pop, R&B, and rap. All those kinds of music have spread everywhere,
including to our country. Western music
has begotten a lot of singers who are very famous on their own music, like Britney Spears, Bryan Adams, Blue, Westlife.
Music can express our feeling and
emotion. Music isa universal language, so it can touch our heart when we enjoy it and it
can touch any aspects of human life.
Nowadays, music has a wider
connotation since it still has a rule when it is demonstrated; it is beautiful with the
existence ofthe element of rhyme, tone, and harmony. Through its different lyric, music
could arise the feeling of love, sadness, hope and happiness.
The study of sentence patterns in
the song lyrics becomes more important when
the word or lexical items are combined into sentence found in the song lyrics because sometimes we find the words which have
different interpretation in the forms of
sentence pattern construction. The study of sentence patterns in the song
lyric, hence becomes crucial.
There are many reasons why the
researcher selects Westlife’s song lyrics as the object of this research: (1) examining the
pattern of the sentence containing in this song lyrics; (2) analyzing the way of
constructing the lyrics by using tree diagram.
Previous related studies on the
lyrics of songs have been carried out by a number of researchers. For example, Rahmawati
(2003) looks at “A Syntactical Analysis
on Sentence Patterns Used in David Forester’s Songs”. She finds nineteen rules of the sentence patterns with Noun
Phrase andVerb Phrase as the most common rules. She also mentions other common sentence
patterns consisting of Noun Phrase, Verb
Phrase or Prepositional only, Conjunction plusVerb Phrase or Noun Phrase.
Finally, she concluded that
kernel sentences appearless than the transformed ones.
Yulia, in her thesis (1998)
entitled “Sentence Patterns Used in Michael Learns To Rock’s Pop Songs”, concludes that kernel
sentence mostly appear rather than transformed
sentences. The sentences can be in the form of VP only, simple sentence, or two sentences are combined with or without
conjunction. She also identified the substandard
English words such as ‘bout, I’m, she’s, and I’ve.
From the two previous studies
above, it can be concluded focuses on the analyzing the parts of sentence patterns: Noun
Phrase and Verb Phrase. The reason for doing
this is because of the assumption that the sentence patterns are the area
studied by linguists in the song lyrics.
Therefore, the simplicity of the
lyric on the musichas attracted to examine Westlife songs. Three diagrams proposed by
Diana DBornstein is used to analyze the
data.
1.2. Problem of the Study According
to the background
of the study
in the preceeding
discussions the following research problem is formulated: 1. What
are the sentence patterns found in Westlife’s song lyrics? 1.3.
Objective of the Study This study
aims to answer the problem stated above:analyzing sentence patterns in some of Westlife’s song lyrics.
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