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This paper shows the linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis in the lyrics of song. Those aspects are cohesion device and grammatical cohesion. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; grammatical and lexical cohesion devices. Grammatical cohesion contains reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction while lexical cohesion contains collocation and reiteration. This research analyzes the lyrics from the soloist band namely Alec Benjamin entitle “Six feet apart”. After analyzing grammatical and lexical cohesion of six feet apart’s lyric, the result shows that the kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion exist in the lyric. The first kind of grammatical cohesion which is found is reference. The kinds of references namely personal, adverbial demonstrative, selective nominal demonstrative, and comparative reference are found in the lyric. The most frequent reference which is used in the lyric is personal reference. The usage of cohesive devices is so important to make meaningful language to the lyrics of the song. The cohesion devices make the text united.. The function of lexical cohesion within the stanza in the lyric of six feet apart song is making a relationship and also it is used to express and to stress the singer’s idea. Keyword: Discourse analysis, Lexical Cohesion, Grammatical Cohesion. Introduction Language is a system of communication in speech and writing used by people of a particular country. It is the important thing in daily life, without language we cannot interact with others. Communication is a process of transferring a massage from the speaker to the hearer. People use direct speech to say what they want to say. However, people also use indirect speech such as a song as a media for transferring a thought, message, and feeling to other people. Song and learning foreign language have good relationship, Murphey, T. says: The relevant reason for the use of songs in classroom is that they are among the best ways of teaching a foreign language. Consequently, they can develop and integrate the four basic Victoria Bull, Oxford LEARNER’S POCKET Dictionary, 4 ed (New York: Oxford University press, 2008) pp. 40 Tafhim Al-‘Ilmi : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam ISSN: 2252-4924, e-ISSN: 2579-7182 Terakreditasi Nasional SK No : 148/M/KPT/2020 Volume 12, No. 1 September 2020 38 skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking, in a natural and harmonic way in the language classroom. “Lyrics are written as a form of interaction between the writer and the listeners. Most of the times, they carry a message (whatever that might be) with the purpose of motivating the listeners, at least, to think about it. Such a purpose and form of interaction are embedded in the cultural context of these people, according to their musical preferences, time, etc.” Lyrics as the strength in every song like vocal plays, the styles of the language, and deviation meaning words are language trick in creating the lyrics song. By way of the lyrics, the singer tell and notice to the listeners. The song lyrics are expression media by the singer after the singer see the phenomenon that occurred. To write the lyrics, the song-writer could write the words in figurative or simple phrase or simple sentence in order to attract the listener. Occasionally, the phrase or sentence of a certain lyrics are also shortened and the sentences in the lyrics are not grammatical either. For example the song which is sung by Justin Bieber entitled ‘love yourself’ on “my mama don’t like” lyrics is not grammatical because he uses ‘don’t’ in singular third person. This mistake is one of the features of the lyrics which may be used to suit the lyrics with the music. The content of songs is common. It has short words and numerous personal pronouns. The language used in songs are one way to communicate. Lyrics in songs are often sung at slower time than words are spoken with more breaks between utterances, and there are some repetition of vocabulary and structures. A lyrics as instrument of communication has unity. The unity communication is needed so much in order to avoid misunderstanding or miscommunication. The unity in communication is influenced by the relation between the utterances and sentences. The relation is affected by ties or devices, which are used to connect words, phrases, sentences among the utterances and sentences. The ties or devices are indicated by grammatical and lexical cohesion. The other hand, many of the speakers or writers who speaks and writes do not realize about the existence and the function of these devices. For instance, somebody may say, “Two days ago, Ahmed went to the zoo. He saw some mammals and birds”. But, he/she doesn’t realize that his sentence are cohesive because of the feature of language, which named cohesion devices that is personal reference (he) and conjunction 2 Murphey T, Music & Song. (New York: Oxford University press, 1992) pp. 32 Edwan A.F., “Textual meaning in song lyrics” Passage, Vol 1 No 1 (September 2013) pp. 99-106 Murphey T., Music & Song (New York: Oxford University press, 1992) pp. 27 Tafhim Al-‘Ilmi : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam ISSN: 2252-4924, e-ISSN: 2579-7182 Terakreditasi Nasional SK No : 148/M/KPT/2020 Volume 12, No. 1 September 2020 39 (and). As a result, the writer assumes it is important to do a research about cohesion devices to enhance the understanding about unity between utterance and sentence in order to be able to create a good text. For English teachers, teach about cohesion devices (Grammatical and Lexical) in song (lyric) is needed to get more exciting and fun learning, consider song (lyric) is very popular society media at this time. Lyric song is one of some ways to learn language, Jumbled Lyricis the activity been used to help students to recognize the organization of ideas in a text and to use contextual clues to order it. Based on the explanation above, the writer wants to analyze the lyrics of song from linguistic aspect in term of discourse analysis. Discourse refers to connected speech or writing occurring at supra-sentential level. A good discourse or text have to cohesive. Cohesion is a semantic role, it refers to relation of meaning that exists within the text, and that defines it as a text. To make a unity or cohesiveness of the text, it needs what we know as cohesion devices. Cohesion devices divided into two descriptions, those are; grammatical and lexical cohesion devices. Grammatical cohesion contain reference, ellipsis, substitution, and conjunction while lexical cohesion contain collocation and reiteration. The writer is interested in doing a research on the lyric of the song for several reasons. Firstly, the writer believes that lyrics is a kind of communication instrument, which is very popular in society at this time so it will be notable to be analyzed. Secondly, choosing lyrics as the data is because the writer can ensure himself that he can collect the data. Additionally, the writer takes the cohesive devices in the lyrics. Thirdly, lyrics contain pair of sentences that are often created ungrammatically and figuratively so it makes the writer interested to do an investigation. This research analyzes the lyrics from the soloist band namely Alec Benjamin. Alec Shane Benjamin (Alec Benjamin), is an American soloist singer-songwriter from Phoenix, Arizona. He has gained popularity from his pop songs that depict descriptive stories from his own personal experiences. Alec Benjamin famous through ‘paper crown’ song which he wrote and recorded by himself in his dorm room when he was a student at the University of Southern Carolina. Alec Benjamin in ‘Six feet Apart’ song expresses sickness of the people, surrounding of environment, in order to keep ourselves and the one we love safe and healthy during Covid-19 pandemic. In this study, the writer took song entitled ‘Six feet Apart’, because the writer wants to Murphey T., Music & Song (New York: Oxford University press, 1992) pp. 29 Nurul C. Let’s Analyze Discourses (Tulungagung: Tulungagung State Islamic, 2014) pp. 4 7 Halliday and Hasan, Cohesion in English (London: Longman Group Ltd, 1976) p.4 Tafhim Al-‘Ilmi : Jurnal Pendidikan dan Pemikiran Islam ISSN: 2252-4924, e-ISSN: 2579-7182 Terakreditasi Nasional SK No : 148/M/KPT/2020 Volume 12, No. 1 September 2020 40 know the employing of Cohesion devices to express the message that the singer (Alec Benjamin) expresses among pandemic Covid-19,the lyrics of the song in this study were analyzed verse by verse in cohesion devices aspect they are Lexical and Grammatical cohesion. This research is intended to know the kinds of grammatical cohesion used in the lyrics of Six feet apart and the kinds of lexical cohesion used in the lyrics of Six feet apart. The writer believes that the result of this research gives lot of contributions not only for students but also for lecturers of IAI Al-Qolam Malang, especially for English department. For the Students, this study can be used to acquire some information about kinds of grammatical and lexical cohesion and for English teachers, this study can be used to enrich their teaching materials of discourse analysis and to get more exciting and fun learning, consider song (lyric) is very popular society media at this time. This research can be knowledge for the next researcher who want to do discourse analysis. Furthermore, this research contributes the important thing for discourse class for analyzing the kinds of lexical and grammatical cohesion.

An Analysis of Lexical and Grammatical Cohesion of Six Feet Apart Song by Alec Benjamin