LAGU “JAR OF THE HEART” OLEH CHRISTINA PERRY (SEBUAH ANALISIS WACANA)

Abstract

Discourse Analysis is one of the subject matters in the seventh semester in English
Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Slamet Riyadi University. In this research,
the researchers conducted Discourse Analysis for one English song. This research is aimed to
peel up the content of the songs, which was sung by Christina Perri, from the perspectives of
meaning, purpose, and the vision of the writer. Contextual aspects and inferential meaning can
be seen from that song. Grammatical aspects and lexical meaning are used to see the cohesion
and coherence of this song.
This research is library research. Then, it used Miles and Huberman’s theory of
qualitative data analysis. The location of the research was in libraries of Unisri, UNS, UGM,
and Balai Bahasa Semarang. The output of this research are: (1) to publish an article in
scientific journal which has ISSN (after finishing the research in one semester).; (2) to report the
research result that can be used as a reference for students who study Discourse Analysis in
English Department, Teacher Training and Education Faculty, Unisri.
The research result shows that there were contextual aspects and inferential meaning,
grammatical aspects and lexical meaning in the songs of ‘Jar of The Heart’ by Christina Perri
which is obtained by conducting Discourse Analysis.
Key Words: Coherent, Cohesion, Context and Inferential, Discourse Analysis, Christina Perri,
and Demi Lovato.