Open AccessA Descriptive Study on the Use of Colloquial Style in English Songs
Author(s) -
Endriana Sri Wahyuni
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
register journal/register
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2503-040X
pISSN - 1979-8903
DOI - 10.18326/rgt.v1i2.181-196
Subject(s) - style (visual arts) , point (geometry) , linguistics , sample (material) , nonprobability sampling , table (database) , literature , computer science , art , sociology , mathematics , philosophy , population , chemistry , geometry , demography , chromatography , data mining
This research is to point out the colloquial styles and the meanings used in English songs. The writer took the data from the text of five cassettes consisting of twenty two English songs. The technique used was the purposive random sampling. The writer presented the data taken from the sample then used a qualitative analysis. The table shows a list of sentences from the sample songs (20 samples from 70 samples) having non Standard English. The findings of this study showed that the characteristics of colloquial style are used in English songs are structural aspect, denotative meanings and connotative meanings.Keywords: Colloquial styles; English songs; structural aspect; denotative meanings and connotative meanings.