Cohesiveness in Informal Written Text, Song Lyrics

Nowadays, people communicate with each other in different ways, and there is amessage given through the speech. Songs lyrics are some examples ofwritten discourses that have the textual function for communication. This research concerns written discourse in the form of song lyrics sung and written by BrunoMars, with coherence devices to see the song’s cohesiveness. The design of this research was a descriptive study by using a qualitative approach. The source data is fifteen songs from three different albums titled “Doo-woops & Hooligans (2010)”, “Unorthodox Jukebox (2012)”, and “24KMagic (2016)” by Bruno Mars. The technique of analysis involved categorization, abstraction, and coding the text. After identifying the data, the writer carried out investigator triangulation to validate the data by discussing the findings. The result showed the cohesiveness found in the text by using Oshima andHogue theory about coherence. Fromanalysis, it was found two things related to cohesive devices. First, the use of coherence devices, which consist of repeated keywords, consistent pronouns, transition signals, and there is no logical order found in the song lyric. Second, the findings of coherence devices used in the lyrics are proved that the informal written text take the contribution to delivered the cohesiveness information. Itmeans coherence devices are taking part in the continuity and clarity of the lyrics. Therefore, it can be concluded that the existence of cohesion and coherence relation in the lyrics takes the contribution and also sets up the context for the interpretation of themeaning of the song.