Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2017)

Theme and Rheme in Mandailing Songs Texts by Odang and Masdani

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Shoufi Nisma Dewi
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Shoufi Nisma Dewi
Available Online October 2017.
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10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.99How to use a DOI?
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Theme and Rheme; Song Lyrics; Mandailing
Abstract

Language accommodates as a sender of message to reader as the target information. It is how to transfer message like ideas, thoughts, needs, purpose and others. There are three functions of language which are called as metafunction of language. There are three types of Theme, namely ideational/topical Theme, textual Theme, and interpersonal Theme. The objective of this research was to identify the realization of Theme and Rheme in Odang and Masdani's song lyrics. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative research method. The data of this research were the types of Theme found in Odang and Masdani's Song Lyrics. There are three songs lyrics as the source of data. In analyzing the data, the researcher used the framework proposed by Halliday. The data were analyzed through following steps: 1) segmenting the data into clauses. 2) Identifying the Theme and Rheme for each clause. 3) Describing the types of Theme in the Lyrics. The results found that there were 70 clauses showing the three types of Theme in the song lyrics. They are topical, interpersonal and textual Theme. Unmarked topical Themes (60%) are mostly used by the Mandailing song lyrics. followed by textual Theme (22.8%,), marked Theme (8.5%), and interpersonal Theme (8.5%). It seems that the Mandailing song text tend to use subject as Theme.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
October 2017
ISBN
10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.99
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.99How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, 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/).

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