THE STYLE OF MARIAH CAREY IN CONVEYING HER MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGES THROUGH HER SONGS AND THE IMPLICATION IN INCREASING STUDENT’S MOTIVATION IN ENGLISH LEARNING

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.