Lexical cohesion found in the lyrics of Avenged Sevenfold’s songs

ABSTRACT

This research analyzes about lexical cohesion found in the lyrics of avenged sevenfold’s songs. Lexical cohesion is the central devices for making texts hang together. Lexical cohesion is the way to know how the relationship from one word to another word in the text and lexical cohesion gives the most substantive contribution to the text. By this research is expected to understand and to know the relationship of the word in the text especially the text of song’s lyrics.

To conduct this research the researcher uses descriptive qualitative method, because the data in the form of words, phrases, and sentences. The data of this research is the verses from five songs they are: M.I.A (missing in action), a little piece of heaven, dear God, gunslinger, and Afterlife which is taken from the lyrics of avenged sevenfold’s songs. To analyze the data the researcher takes the data which consist of reiteration and collocation that are used in the lyrics of avenged sevenfold’s songs, and explain the function of lexical cohesion in those lyrics.

The result of this research show that lexical cohesion which consist of reiteration and collocation is used in the lyrics of avenged sevenfold’songs and each kind of lexical cohesion has different function. By using lexical cohesion, the lyrics have relation each other and the words are not monotonous to read.

Finally, this research gives contribution to English students, lecturers and people who are interested in analyzing about lexical cohesion, because this study can lead the reader understand the relationship of the words in the text. For the next researches which have the same interest to analyze lexical cohesion, this research is expected that the result of the study is going to lead the next researcher as reference and comparison that might be relevant to their research. Hopefully, further researchers can analyze more deeply and use the new theory of lexical cohesion.