A Study On The Cohesion Devices Employed In The Songs Of Michael Learn To Rock (MLTR) Group Of Music’s

摘要

There are two problems in this study: (1) What are the cohesion devicesudused by MLTR Group of music’s in song lyric writing? (2) How the cohesionuddevices support the couplet coherence?udThe writer uses documentary technique in collecting the data and simpleudrandom sampling which he uses lottery procedure to get the data.udIn analyzing the texts of song, the writer bases on the cohesion devicesudand the formula of paragraph. The cohesion devices consists of pronoun,udrepetition and transition, and the formula paragraph consists of a topic, restrictionudand illustration.udThe result of this study shows that the cohesion devices which consist ofudpronoun, repetition, and conjunction are applied in the texts of MLTR songs.udThose three types of cohesion devices and the formula of paragraph are applied inudthose songs to create them coherence couplets, compact and unity; and thoseudcouplets are written to explain a single idea, this idea contained a single line asudtopic line. There are six songs in this analysis. They consist of 36 couplets andud160 lines, 30 couplets are coherence and 6 couplets are incoherence, and 28udcouplets are related to the formula of paragraph and 8 couplets are unrelated toudthe formula of paragraph.