Sentence pattern analysis used in song lyrics of Green Day’s album “American Idiot”

Sari, Sari (2013) Sentence pattern analysis used in song lyrics of Green Day’s album “American Idiot”. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

This graduating paper talking about sentence pattern analysis used in song lyrics of Green Day’s album “American Idiot”. The writer chooses the song to be analyzed because studying song is not merely analyzing its figurative language, the meaning of words and the language style, but also analyzing the sentence patterns of the lyrics. Therefore, the writer took sentence patterns analysis used in Green Days’s song lyrics of “American Idiot” Album. In analyzing the data, the writer used some theories which are suitable with the subject. The theory of tree diagram proposed Bornstein is used to analyze sentences into each of the content of the sentence. In order to have deep understanding in syntax, the writer than chooses the material from one of Green Day’s albums entitle American Idiot. This graduating paper employs descriptive qualitative method. The steps in taking and collecting the data are reading the lyrics of the songs, listening to the cassette, and selecting the songs as the samples and writing down the three lyrics of the selected songs. The writer found 23 kinds of the sentence patterns. The most sentence patterns of the lyrics used as the samples are kernel sentences and transformed sentences. The noun phrase has the position as the complement of the structure of complementation. And the noun phrase can be as both the head and the modifier when in the structure of modification. The data the writer finally concludes that there are 23 kinds of the sentence pattern of the Green Day’s songs lyrics some sentence consists of noun phrase plus verb phrase, some sentences consist of conjunction plus noun phrase plus verb phrase, some sentences consist of adverb of place plus noun phrase plus verb phrase. The noun phrase has the position as the complement of the structure of complementation. Finally, the noun phrase can be as both the head and the modifier when in the structure of modification.

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