Interpersonal Meaning Analysis of The Weeknd Song Lyrics in After Hours’ Album

Andhika Putra Daryanto, Arso Setyaji, Entika Fani Prastikawati

Abstract


The song is one of the mediums to deliver a speaker’s feelings. There is a lot of songwriters that write interesting song lyrics. There is always a story behind the song. This research aims to (1) describe the mood types used in the song lyrics of The Weeknd album After Hours, (2) find the actualization of the interpersonal meaning in the song lyrics of The Weeknd album After Hours, (3) analyze the contribution of interpersonal meaning used in the song lyrics of The Weeknd album After Hours. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative. The following steps, it applied was the first, this research looked for the songs of The Weeknd album After Hours, the second, this research listened to the songs, then looked for the song lyrics script of The Weeknd album After Hours, the fourth, this research identified the clauses of The Weeknd album After Hours based on Halliday’s theory. From the analysis it is found there are two mood types in The Weeknd's album After Hours. The mood types are declarative mood and imperative mood. The declarative mood is the most dominant mood type with 127 clauses from 144 clauses total and the rest 17 clauses belong to the imperative mood. The actualization of interpersonal meaning in the song lyrics of The Weeknd's album After Hours was by wordings of the clause based on the elements of interpersonal meaning, such as mood, residue, and also modality. 


Keywords


Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL), interpersonal meaning, song, The Weeknd, After Hours album

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.26877/ijre.v2i2.11727

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