IDIOMS Language is known as a means of communication which is used for communicating each other. People can also express their feeling through language. There are plenty of ways to express the feelings through language such as by writing novels or poetries, or, moreover people can compose a song. As a means of expressing feelings, a song seems interesting to be analyzed since it is a unique way to express one’s feeling and it provides various combination of vocabulary and a unique set of wordings which has its own function. The language of the song is built in such a specific way; therefore, it becomes different from ordinary language. It is interesting and usually written in beautiful and nice words to attract listeners and hold their attention. Song is one of the best forms of entertainment to be enjoyed, it is full of melodious music, in which at the same time, present new world while the listeners enjoy the day. At this stage, the listeners will have two advantages such as having a pleasure and obtaining significant information whether about the situation of world or about love feelings that are experienced by the composer of or rather by the figure or the personal in the song. Moreover, the listeners can obtain the knowledge through interpreting the words in song lyrics while they have more time to listen and explore the deepest meaning of the song. There are plenty of variations in language which can be found in the song, such as the figurative language, etc, including idioms. Being interested in studying idioms particularly the idioms that can be found in the song lyrics, this study analyzes the idioms used particularly in the song lyrics taken from The Beatles’s which were composed by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison. The analyzed songs will be taken from their popular songs. The Beatles is a British Rock Band from Liverpool
Posted on: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 19:05:06 +0000
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