Abstract:
Language is the important part in our life. By using language we can
communicate each other and express our feeling. In producing the specific
language, neither everyone have their own style nor a singer. Mariah Carey is
one of popular singer who also composed her song by herself. In composing her
song basically there is an intrinsic message such as motivational message that
conveyed by the composer through her song. The phenomena is worthy to be
analyzed. In order to know the style of Mariah Carey in conveying her
motivational message through her songs by showing the process of expoiting the
esthetical values through constructing linguistic elements such as lexical and
gramatical features and the use of figurative language, stylistic approach can be
applied as the method in this research.
In this reasearch the object of the study is Mariah Carey’s motivational
song lyrics. There were three categories that want to be analysed such as
Figurative Languages, Lexical Categories, and Gramatical Categories. Figurative
Language involved simile, symbol, personification, anaphora, antithesis, climax,
hyperbole, and alliteration. Lexical categories involved nouns, verbs, adverbs and
adjectives meanwhile Gramatical Categories involved Sentence types and Clause
type.
The result of this research shows that the style of Mariah Carey in every
motivational song was the combination of beauty and motivationally. The
dominant figurative language used by Mariah is symbol by representative 24 out
of 106 or 22.64% to make her message in her songs easy knowing of the listener
by imagining the symbols. The dominant lexical element used by Mariah in her
motivational song is verb. It had 257 out of 533 or 49.3% because Mariah wanted
the listener had the realization of Motivation inside themselves. In conveying her
motivational messages, Mariah used more statement by representative 217 out of
307 or 70.6% to make her messages clearly. The next categorie is clause-type. In
her motivational songs, there is no significant different between Wh-claue and
That- clause . Mariah took 27 out of 47 or 57.4% of Wh-clause and 20 out of 47
or 42.6% of That- clause, there is a balancing in using the clause type. The data of
questionnaire shows that 93.3% of the students said that interest in studying
english using English song. It can be concluded that the song of Mariah Carey can
be applied as the material in English learning especially that contains motivational
message.
