Deixis Analysis on Song Lyrics in the Album of the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance a Pragmatics Study
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This study focuse on a deixis analysis of the lyrics of My Chemical Romance's album "The Black Parade," especially "Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Famous Last Words” songs. The study identifies three types of deixis namely, personal, temporal, and spatial. It is a descriptive qualitative study to observe diectic expressionns then Yule’s theory about diexis is used to analyze the data. Result shows that the most frequent deixis used is personal after that spatial and temporal. By a detail analysis in Yule's theory, this study indicates how strategic is deixis in song lyrics. It is able to convey the listeners complex narrative and emotional levels in enhancing the listener's interpretive experience. The pragmatic approach here enlights the deixis competence importance, when the listeners have limited lyrics understanding to meet the context and reference inside songs lyric.
Authors: Evi Murti Wardhani, Latifah Eka Febiyanti
Institution: Universitas Duta Bangsa
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402079186