Lisetyo Ariyanti, Slamet Setiawan
This paper explores the referential meaning of lyrics of the dangdut song written in the Javanese language. The purpose of this paper is to present the structure of reference expression in every stanza of the song's lyrics, and also explain how the references contribute the stanza. A qualitative approach was used in this study and content analysis was used as the research design. A corpus originating from 7 songs recorded in DVD were used as the core data. Data of this study were collected by identiyfing each lyric of the 7 songs verbatim. Records of the song and the runnting text on the lyrics were considerably written and verbatim analysis to each mark on the referential meaning was constructed. Data were analyzed based on its themes and contenys as per lyric implies. In addition, the analysis was also based on the theory of referential expression. The last lines in every stanza were identified as the anaphoric words which were taking a part as attributive words that attribute the lines before the last lines. These preceded lines are functioned as antecedents. Moreover, the rhyme of antecedents and the rhyme of anaphoric words identify the role of those words in those referential stanzas. Results indicate that the irony meaning of Javanese dangdut lyrics songs seems so rude but gives a very much entertainment towards their audience. Specifically, the last line in the stanza performs irony meaning since the antecedent lines are recognized as having the attributive-irony meaning attributable to the last line, thus the meaning attributable to the anaphoric reference reveal irony condition or meaning in the stanza. © 2020 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia
