IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION REVIEW IN ADELE'S Song Lyrics

Abstrak

This study intends to analyze the idiomatic expressions in Adele's song lyrics. By using the descriptive qualitative analysis, this study also applies Makkai’s theory about idioms to evaluate the component of the idiomatic in Adele’s song lyrics. Four songs by Adele are used in this study; they are Hello, Remedy, I Miss You, and Million Years Ago. The components of the idiomatic analysis technique approach are used by the researcher to evaluate the song lyrics that include idioms. This study finds 11 idiomatic expressions distributed among three different categories: phrasal verb idioms, tournure idioms, and irreversible binomial idioms. Of these, 3 data exhibit phrasal verb idioms, 4 show tournure idioms, and 4 show irreversible binomials. However, the researcher was unable to locate another idiom when doing the investigation. The meaning of an idiomatic phrase was discovered to have a contextual connotation in this study.

Kata kunci

• Expression
• Idiomatics
• song lyrics