"Kesaktianmu" an Expression of Language Beauty with the Content of Infidelity in a Popular Love Song Study of Language Creativity and Sexism
- DOI
- 10.2991/amca-18.2018.172How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Expression, beauty, song, language creativity, sexism.
- Abstract
The objective of this article is to show that (1) various types of lingual forms containing infidelity are written with beautiful dictions as a result of the writer’s language creativity and (2) all lingual forms used in the song lyrics kesaktianmu (Your Spiritual Power) possess a sexism nuance. This present research is the resultsof the study of a text, namely song lyrics with the title of kesaktianmu popularized by a band group “Winner”. The data collection methods adopted were listening, reading and recording. The research results were as follows. 1) There were many lingual forms, which are implicitly or explicitly written in words, phrases, clauses or sentences with infidelity content. Most of them are well and beautifully rhymed aimed at hiding negative lexical meanings (infidelity). 2) The fact of the choice of the lingual forms in the song lyrics showed the existence of inferior position of women experience as the objects or the receivers of men’s activities. The lingual forms starting fromclithics, pronouns, verbs and adverbs show the evidence of the existence of sexism.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Dewi Kusumaningsih AU - Riyadi Santosa AU - Mr Djatmika AU - D. Edi Subroto PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - "Kesaktianmu" an Expression of Language Beauty with the Content of Infidelity in a Popular Love Song Study of Language Creativity and Sexism BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 620 EP - 623 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.172 DO - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.172 ID - Kusumaningsih2018/07 ER -