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A STUDY ON BAD LANGUAGE ON “NIGHTMARE”

SONG ALBUM USED BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD

THESIS

By:

KARINA ANDANSARI

NIM: 201010100311119

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2014

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A STUDY ON BAD LANGUAGE ON “NIGHTMARE”

SONG ALBUM USED BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD

THESIS

This thesis is submitted to meet one of the requirements to achieve Sarjana Degree in Engflish Education

By:

KARINA ANDANSARI

NIM: 201010100311119

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TEACHER TRAINING AND EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF MUHAMMADIYAH MALANG

2014

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This thesis written by KARINA ANDANSARI was approved on August 15 , 2014

By:

Advisor II Advisor I

Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum Munash Fauzie, Drs, M.M

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This thesis was defended in front of the examiners of Faculty of Teacher Training

and Education of the University of Muhammadiyah Malang and accepted as the

partial requirement to achieve Sarjana Degree in English Education

On August 15, 2014

Approved by

Faculty of Teacher Training and Education

University of Muhammadiyah Malang

Dean,

Dr. Poncojari Wahyono, M.Kes.

Examiner: Signatures:

1. Munash Fauzie, Drs, M.M.

2. Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum.

3. Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd.

4. Riski Lestiono, S.Pd.,M.A.

1. …………………………

2. …………………………

3. ..………………………..

4. …………………………

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MOTTO AND DEDICATION

RIDHO ALLAH TERGANTUNG RIDHO ORANG TUA

“Dan Kami perintahkan kepada manusia (berbuat baik) kepada dua orang ibu-bapanya; ibunya telah mengandungnya dalam keadaan

lemah yang bertambah-tambah, dan menyapihnya dalam dua tahun. Bersyukurlah kepadaKu dan kepada dua orang ibu bapakmu, hanya

kepada-Kulah kembalimu.”

(Qs. Al lukman: 14)

بسم اللھ الرحمن الرحیم“Dan Robb-mu telah memerintahkan kepada manusia, janganlah ia

beribadah melainkan hanya kepada-Nya dan hendaklah berbuat baik kepada kedua orang tua dengan sebaik-baiknya. Dan jika salah

satu dari keduanya atau kedua-duanya telah berusia lanjut di sisimu, maka janganlah katakan kepada keduanya ‘ah’ dan

janganlah kamu membentak kedua-nya. Dan katakanlah kepada keduanya perkataan yang mulia dan rendahkanlah dirimu terhadap

keduanya dengan penuh kasing sayang. Dan katakanlah, ‘Wahai Rabb-ku sayangilah keduanya sebagaimana keduanya

menyayangiku di waktu kecil’

(Qs. Al-Isra’ ayat 23-24)

Dedicated To:

My beloved Parents

(My Father Alm. Yoyok Hermawan and My Mother Alm. Lis Restyowati)

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Praise to Allah for His merciful and graceful gift so the writer can finish this

thesis. Prayer and peace till focus to the prophet Muhammad SAW.

This thesis would not have come to its final form without people who have

provided suggestion and supported to the writer. Because of that the writer would

like to say thank to:

1. Her Advisor Mr. Munash Fauzie, Drs, M.M and Mr. Dr. Sudiran, M.Hum

who have been very patient in providing direction, guidance during the

preparation and writing of this thesis.

2. Her Examiners Mrs Rahmawati Khadijah Maro, S.Pd., M.PEd and Mr. Riski

Lestiono, S.Pd.,M.A for the suggestion, critics, and correction in the

refinement of this thesis.

3. Her parents (Alm. Yoyok Hermawan and Alm. Lis Restyowati) who have

given love and high motivation before her perents died, thank you for all

mom and dad. InshaAllah, the writer will continue to strive to be what a pious

child and always dutiful to parents until the end of my life. The writer always

pray for her perents to be happy in heaven Allah SWT. Amiin

4. For all her family, especially my grandma (Suyati) who have given support in

the form of moral and material, thank you for all the loves and prayer that

always accompany every step of the writer, so the writer can reach till this

point.

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A STUDY ON BAD LANGUAGE ON “NIGHTMARE”

SONG ALBUM USED BY AVENGED SEVENFOLD

By:

KARINA ANDANSARI

ABSTRACT

English is an important foreign language because English becomes the international language that is used by many people around the world. Using English, people can show their feeling, ideas, and some emotion to others. The purpose of this research is to know the bad language used by society, but in this research the writer takes the example of bad language from songs.

The object of this research is album of American rock band “Avenged Sevenfold”. The name of the album is “Nightmare”. In this research the writer analyzed five songs. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. There are three important steps in this research, they are observing, findings and analyzing the data. The instrument of this research for more easily to get data, the researcher used two instrument; observation and documentations. The study shows that the album especially these five songs; Nightmare, Critical Aclaim, A Little Piece of Heaven, God Hate us, Beast and the Harlot have many types of bad language. The writer analyzes the data take in the lyric in every songs title. From the data analysis, the bad words like “Fuck, Damn, bitch, etc” were found, as well as the meanings and classification of bad word based on the type. Based on the classification can be detected, there are profanity, obscenity, and vulgarity. Therefore, in the last analysis, the writer explains the meaning in general and shows general meaning of the lyric in every stanza. In general, the meaning of songs is about expression of someone when feeling angry or bad to others. Keyword: Bad Language, songs, album, rock band. The 1st Advisor, The Writer, Munash Fauzie, Drs, M.M Karina A

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TABLE OF CONTENT

APPROVAL ........................................................................................... i

LEGALIZATION ................................................................................. ii

MOTTO & DEDICATION .................................................................. iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................... iv

ABSTRACT ........................................................................................... vi

TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................................................................... vii

LIST OF TABLE ................................................................................... x

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of Study ............................................................. 1

1.2. Problem of the Study ............................................................ 2

1.3. Purpose of the Study .............................................................. 3

1.4. Significance of the Study ....................................................... 3

1.5. Scope and Limitation ............................................................. 3

1.6. Definition of Key Terms ....................................................... 4

CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

2.1 Definition of Language .......................................................... 6

2.2 Definition of Linguistics and Sociolinguistics ......................... 7

2.2.1 Definition of Linguistics .................................................. 7

2.2.2 Definition of Sociolinguistics ............................................ 7

2.3 Language Variation............. .................................................... 8

2.3.1 Idiolect ............................................................................. 8

2.3.1.1 Style ........................................................................... 8

2.3.1.2 Register........................................................................ 9

2.3.2 Dialect ............................................................................... 9

2.3.2.1 Regional Dialect .......................................................... 9

2.3.2.2 Social Dialect ............................................................... 10

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2.3.2.2.1 Bad Language .................................................. 10

2.4 Definition Bad Language... .................................................... 10

2.4.1 Taboo ............................................................................... 11

2.4.2 Swearing ........................................................................... 11

2.4.3 Vulgar .............................................................................. 12

2.5 Type of Bad Language ............................................................ 12

2.6 Bad Language and Society ...................................................... 14

2.7 The Reason for speakers to use a Bad Language ..................... 15

2.8 Definition of Literature ........................................................... 16

2.9 Definition of song ................................................................... 16

2.9.1 Type of song ..................................................................... 16

2.10 Avenged Sevenfold............................................................... 18

CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.1. Research Design .................................................................... 19

3.2. Researc Object ....................................................................... 19

3.3. Research Instrument .............................................................. 20

3.4 Data Collections ..................................................................... 21

3.5. Data Analysis ........................................................................ 22

CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 Findings ................................................................................. 23

4.1.1 The Bad Language Found In The “Nightmare” lyrics ....... 23

4.1.2 The Bad Language Found In The “Critical Acclaim”

lyrics ........................................................................................ 26

4.1.3 The Bad Language Found In The “A Little Piece of Heaven”

lyrics ......................................................................................... 28

4.1.4 The Bad Language Found In The “God Hate Us”

lyrics ......................................................................................... 31

4.1.5 The Bad Language Found In The “Beast and The Harlot”

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Lyrics ....................................................................................... 33

4.2 Type of Bad Language ............................................................ 35

4.2.1 Profanity .......................................................................... 35

4.2.2 Obscenity ......................................................................... 37

4.2.3 Vulgarity .......................................................................... 38

4.3 General Meaning ................................................................... 39

4.4 Discussions............................................................................. 51

CHAPTER V: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS

5.1 Conclusions ............................................................................ 53

5.2 Suggestions ............................................................................ 54

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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LIST OF TABLE

Table 4.1. Bad Language used in the Nightmare song lyrics ......... 23

Table 4.2. Bad Language used in the Critical Acclaim song

lyrics ............................................................................................ 26

Table 4.3. Bad Language used in the A Little Piece of Heaven

song lyrics ................................................................................... 28

Table 4.4. Bad Language used in the God Hates Us song

lyrics ........................................................................................... 32

Table 4.5. Bad Language used in the Beast and The Harlot

song lyrics ................................................................................... 34

Table 4.6. Profanity in Nightmare lyrics ...................................... 36

Table 4.7. Profanity in Critical Acclaim lyrics .............................. 36

Table 4.8. Profanity in A Little Piece of Heaven lyrics ................. 36

Table 4.9. Profanity in God Hates Us lyrics .................................. 37

Table 4.10. Profanity in Beast and The Harlot lyrics ..................... 37

Table 4.10. Obscenity in Critical Acclaim lyrics ........................... 38

Table 4.11 Vulgarity in A Little Piece of Heaven lyrics ................ 38

Table 4.12 Vulgarity in Beast and The Harlot lyrics ..................... 39

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