Sentence structure analysis in billie eilish's song lyrics

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Ilmiyah, Zubdah Nurul (2023) Sentence structure analysis in billie eilish's song lyrics. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze the types of sentence structures in Billie Eilish's song lyrics. The writer chose the song lyrics of Billie Eilish's because the song has many viewers around 18 million and 840 million in the world. There are two problems to be solved in this study, namely (1) What are the types of sentence structures found in Billie Eilish’s song lyrics; (2) How are the sentence structure found on Billie Eilish’s song lyrics portrayed using tree diagrams. In analyzing the data, the writer uses a qualitative approach. The writer made depth interpretation of the types of sentence structure in song lyrics. The source of the data in this study is the song lyrics by Billie Eilish. The songs are "When The Party's Over" and "Getting Older". Data was collected by downloading all song lyrics on the internet, then the researcher give code in each word in the song lyrics, then the song lyrics sentences were classified based on the type of sentence structure. After being classified, song lyrics are described using a factor tree. Sentence structure types are explained and illustrate using tree diagram by Bornstein’s theory. From the analysis, the writer found all types of sentence structures in Billie Eilish's song lyrics. The researcher found 7 simple sentences, 2 compound sentences, 7 complex sentences, and 1 compound-complex sentence in the song "Getting Older". The researcher then found 5 simple sentences, 3 complex sentences, 2 compound sentences, and 1 compound-complex sentence in the song "When The Party's Over". The researcher suggests to future researchers to choose objects from magazines, news, novels which are more popular and use detailed theory.