The Analysis of Presupposition Found in Song Lyrics of “The Heart of Everything” Album by Within Temptation Band and Its Application in Teaching Listening

Abstract

These studies aimed at analyzing presuppositions in song lyrics in the The Heart of Everything album. There are two objectives of the research namely: to find out the preuppositions in song lyrics of The Heart of Everything album by Within Temptation Band and to find out the way of teaching listening using song lyrics in the The Heart of Everything album. This research is descriptive qualitative research. The object of the research is the types of presupposition in song lyrics of The Heart of Everything album by Within Temptation band. The data is taken from song lyrics on the The Heart of Everything album by Within Temptation band. The researcher uses documentation in collecting the data and then analyzed the data in some steps. The result of data analysis showed that: the researcher found that the most presupposition used in song lyrics on the The Heart of Everything album by Within Temptation band are exsistential presupposition.The researcher found 66,1%for existensial presupposition,13,1% for factive presupposition, 9,2% lexical presupposition, 5,4% for structural presupposition, 3,1% for non-fative presupposition, 3,1% for counter-factual presupposition. The application of presupposition in in the song lyrics on the album entitled The Heart of Everything by Within Temptation band is to teach English listening. The indicator is students can identify the meaning of the song. The researcher suggests to the teachers, they can use authentic matelials like this song lyrics so teachers can maximize teaching result. For the students, songs can help them learning listening with something entertaining.