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GRAMMATICAL DEVIATION AND ITS PHONOLOGICAL
EFFECTS IN BEBE REXHA’S SONG LYRICS
AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By
VATMA ANGGRAINI PUTRI
Student Number: 154214128
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS
FACULTY OF LETTERS
UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA
YOGYAKARTA
2019
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GRAMMATICAL DEVIATION AND ITS PHONOLOGICAL
EFFECTS IN BEBE REXHA’S SONG LYRICS
TITLE PAGE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements
for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra
in English Letters
By
VATMA ANGGRAINI PUTRI
Student Number: 154214128
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS
FACULTY OF LETTERS
UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA
YOGYAKARTA
2019
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SO VERILY, WITH THE HARDSHIP THERE IS RELIEF
WITH THE HARDSHIP THERE IS RELIEF
— QS. 94:5-6
MOTTO PAGE
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This thesis is dedicated to
my parents,
Yutrianti and Suratman
and also my sister,
Berlian Rahmada Romadhona
DEDICATION PAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all I would like to send my deepest gratitude to my Allah SWT,
who always gives me His blessing and love as well as gives me everything I need
in my life especially during the process of writing this thesis. I thank Him, for He
has sent me a lot of good people that make my life full of happiness. I could never
ask for more.
I would like to give my sincere thanks to my beloved thesis advisor
Arina Isti’anah, S.Pd., M.Hum., who guided me to write my thesis. I thank her
for the help given to me so I could pass through all the hard days full of
confusions in writing my thesis. I thank my co-advisor Fransisca Kristanti
S.Pd., M.Hum. who gave me her best to help me finishing my thesis. I also thank
my academic advisors F.X. Risang Baskara, S.S., M.Hum. and Dr. Bernadine Ria
Lestari, M.Sc., for the help and support given to me in these 8 semesters.
I would like to thank my parents and my little sister who always give me
their endless love and support. I thank my college best friends Putri, Widi, Mitha,
Ayu and Mbak Uuz, The Micins in Blue Group. Without them, I would probably
die in the first semester. I also thank my other best friends in Zimbabwe, Mantap
Anjeng, Geng Rempong and BBS groups for the huge support in finishing my
thesis. Finally, I want to thank all of my friends in English Letters Department
batch 2015 and my other friends I cannot mention here for their support and help.
Vatma Anggraini Putri
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE ..................................................................................................... ii
APPROVAL PAGE .......................................................................................... iii
ACCEPTANCE PAGE ..................................................................................... iv
STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................. v
LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH .. vi
MOTTO PAGE ................................................................................................ vii
DEDICATION PAGE ..................................................................................... viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................. ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................... x
LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................... xii
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... xiii
ABSTRAK ........................................................................................................ xiv
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 15
A. Background of the Study ................................................................................... 15
B. Problem Formulation ..........................................................................................4
C. Objectives of the Study .......................................................................................4
D. Definition of Term ..............................................................................................4
CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE................................................... 6
A. Review of Related Studies ..................................................................................6
B. Review of Related Theories .............................................................................. 10
1. Stylistics.................................................................................................... 10
2. Deviation .................................................................................................. 11
3. Grammatical Deviation .............................................................................. 13
4. Phonology ................................................................................................. 18
5. Song .......................................................................................................... 22
C. Theoretical Framework ..................................................................................... 23
CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ................................................................ 24
A. Object of the Study ........................................................................................... 24
B. Approach of the Study ...................................................................................... 25
C. Method of the Study............................................................................................ 25
1. Data Collection .......................................................................................... 25
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2. Data Analysis ............................................................................................. 26
CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS ...................... 27
A. Types of Grammatical Deviation Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics .............. 27
1. Omission ................................................................................................... 29
2. Deviation of Verb ...................................................................................... 37
3. Double Negation ....................................................................................... 39
4. Deviation of Noun ..................................................................................... 41
5. Deviation of Article ................................................................................... 41
7. Overgeneralization .................................................................................... 43
B. Phonological Effects of Rhyme and Meter as the Result of Grammatical
Deviation in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics ..................................................................... 43
1. Rhyme....................................................................................................... 44
2. Meter ........................................................................................................ 48
CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ....................................................................... 51
REFERENCES ................................................................................................ 54
APPENDICES .................................................................................................. 56
Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................... 56
Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................... 60
Appendix 3 ............................................................................................................... 63
Appendix 4 ............................................................................................................... 65
Appendix 5 ............................................................................................................... 67
Appendix 6 ............................................................................................................... 68
Appendix 7 ............................................................................................................... 70
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LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. The Summary of Grammatical Deviations
Occur in Bebe Rexha’s songs..................................................................28
Table 2. Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs ……................................ 30
Table 3. Omission of Article in Bebe Rexha’s Songs …….................................. 33
Table 4. Omission of Linking Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs...……..................... 34
Table 5. Deviation of Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs..…………………................38
Table 6. Double Negation in Bebe Rexha’s Songs..………………………......... 40
Table 7. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb
in Bebe Rexha’s “I’m a Mess”....……………………………................ 45
Table 8. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb
in Bebe Rexha’s “The Way I Are”....……………………….................. 46
Table 9. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Noun........................................................47
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ABSTRACT
Putri, Vatma Anggraini. (2018). Grammatical Deviation and Its Phonological
Effects Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics. Yogyakarta: Department of
English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma.
Language is a tool that helps people to express feeling, idea, and
information. In using a language, people have their own way to deliver the
information to other people. In other words, everyone has his or her own style in
using a language, whether in written or in spoken language. Besides, people use
language for entertainment purposes as well, for example in literary works. One of
the literary works is poem. In writing song lyrics, a song writer also has his or her
own style. It is common for the song writers to deviate the rules of a language
such as grammar. This also occurs in the songs of Bebe Rexha, an American
singer and song writer. Bebe Rexha makes grammatical deviation in her songs in
order to make certain phonological effects. As the result, the songs become more
beautiful and appealing.
This study focuses on the grammatical deviation in five songs of Bebe
Rexha. Those songs are “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “The
Way I Are” and “I’m a Mess”. The aim of this study is to find (1) the types of
grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs and (2) the phonological effects as
the result of the grammatical deviation occuring in the songs.
The approach used to analyze the data of the study is stylistics. Stylistics is
one of the linguistic branches that studies about the style in a language and the
description of the purpose and the effects as the result. This makes stylistics
become the appropriate approach in analyzing the data. In addition, the data is
taken by using the purposive sampling strategy.
Based on the analysis conducted by the researcher, there is only one type
of grammatical deviation which is syntactical deviation. There are seven
grammatical deviation processes in five songs of Bebe Rexha. Those are
omission, deviation of verb, double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of
article, deviation of preposition and overgeneralization. There are two
phonological effects from the grammatical deviations, those are rhyme and meter.
In rhyme, the grammatical deviation was applied in order to make the last syllable
in a line rhymes with the previous or the next line. In meter, the grammatical
deviation was applied to make the right metrical pattern in the song. To conclude,
there is only syntactical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs after analyzing the songs
using stylistics approach. The deviation create the phonological effects which are
rhyme and meter.
Keywords: stylistics, song, grammatical deviation, phonology
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ABSTRAK
Putri, Vatma Anggraini. (2018). Grammatical Deviation and Its Phonological
Effects In Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris,
Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma.
Bahasa adalah alat yang membantu manusia dalam mengekspresikan
perasaan, pemikiran, dan informasi. Dalam menggunakan bahasa, manusia
memiliki cara mereka sendiri untuk menyampaikan informasi kepada orang lain
untuk berkomunikasi. Dengan kata lain, setiap orang memiliki gaya mereka
sendiri dalam menggunakan bahasa, baik tertulis maupun lisan. Selain itu,
manusia juga menggunakan bahasa di dalam dunia hiburan seperti dalam karya-
karya sastra. Salah satu karya sastra adalah puisi. Dalam menulis lagu, seorang
pencipta lagu juga memiliki gaya tersendiri. Dalam membuat lagu, seorang
pencipta lagu terkadang melakukan penyimpangan di tata bahasa dan ini adalah
sesuatu yang biasa terjadi. Hal ini juga terjadi dalam lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha,
seorang penyanyi dan pencipta lagu dari Amerika. Bebe Rexha membuat
penyimpangan dalam tata bahasa di dalam lagunya untuk menghasilkan efek-efek
fonologi tertentu. Hasilnya adalah lagu-lagunya menjadi lebih indah dan menarik.
Penelitian ini terfokus pada penyimpangan tata bahasa dalam lima lagu
Bebe Rexha yang berjudul “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “The
Way I Are” and “I’m a Mess”. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk
menemukan (1) tipe-tipe penyimpangan tata bahasa di lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha dan
(2) efek-efek fonologi sebagai hasil dari penyimpangan tata bahasa tersebut.
Pendekatan stilistika adalah pendekatan yang digunakan untuk
menganalisis data di penelitian ini. Stilistika adalah salah satu cabang ilmu
linguistik yang mengkaji gaya dalam sebuah bahasa dan menjabarkan mengenai
tujuan dan efek yang ditimbulkan. Hal ini membuat stilistika menjadi pendekatan
yang tepat dalam menganalisis data. Selain itu, data tersebut diambil
menggunakan teknik sampel bertujuan.
Berdasarkan analisis, hanya ada satu tipe penyimpangan tata bahasa di
lima lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha yaitu penyimpangan sintaksis. Terdapat 7 proses
penyimpangan tata bahasa yang ditemukan yaitu omission, deviation of verb,
double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article, deviation of preposition
and overgeneralization. Selain itu ada dua efek fonologi dari penyimpangan tata
bahasa tersebut: rima dan meter. Penyimpangan tata bahasa diterapkan di dalam
lagu untuk membuat suku kata terakhir di sebuah baris berima sama dengan baris
sebelum atau setelahnya dan untuk membuat pola meter yang sama. Kesimpulan
yang dapat diambil yaitu hanya ada penyimpangan sintaks di dalam lagu-lagu
Bebe Rexha setelah dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan stilistika. Penyimpangan-
penyimpangan tersebut membuat efek-efek dalam fonologi yaitu rima dan meter.
Kata kunci: stilistika, lagu, penyimpangan tata bahasa, fonologi
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language is a tool that people use to communicate with others. Language
helps people to transfer the idea in their mind into words. They can produce the
words through the organ of speech in order to deliver the idea to the people they
are talking to. By knowing a language, someone can speak and he or she is able to
be understood by others who know that language (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams,
2011, p. 4). This means that a language makes people connected from one another
and becomes a tool to maintain their relationship.
Language is also a science that is studied by the scientists. The study of
language is called linguistics. Linguistics is defined as the scientific study of
language and its structures rather than the learning of individual languages (Barry,
2009, p. 196). In linguistics there are some components that are observed by the
linguists such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Those
components are treated in different ways by the linguists even though they are
actually connected.
In linguistics, the style also becomes the important thing to study. “Style
is the way in which a language is used in a given context by a given person for a
given purpose” (Leech & Short, 1994, p. 10). Style is used in the spoken and
written language. In written language, style is applied in non-literary works and
also in literary works. However, “style is particularly associated with written
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literary text” (Leech & Short, 1994, p. 11). The branch of linguistics that
discusses the style in a language is called stylistics.
Stylistics is defined as the study of style (Leech & Short, 2007, p. 11).
“Stylistics is a critical approach which uses the methods and findings of the
science of linguistics in the analysis of literary text” (Barry, 2009, p. 196). The
literary text can be a novel, a prose, a short story, or a poetry. There are rhyme and
meter which commonly applied in a poetry. This is supported by Obermeier et al
(2013) that “metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry” (p.
1). A song lyrics is also possible to be analyzed using the theory of stylistics
because the lyric and poetry have the same characteristic such as rhyme
(Vosahlik, 2016, p. 13). Besides the rhyme, the meter is also one of the
characteristics that a lyric and a poetry have. Both rhyme and meter are commonly
applied in a poetry and also in a lyric. This indicates that a lyric and a poetry can
be treated the same way in the analysis of stylistics.
In some song lyrics, the song writer makes the lyrics without following
the rules of the language. In other words, the writer of the song violates the
grammar of a language that is used in writing the song. The grammatical error that
the song writers make is called grammatical deviation. Grammatical deviation is
“when a sentence or sentences break the rules of grammar” (Budiharto, 2018, p.
86).
The song writer does not make the grammatical errors without purposes.
The song writer usually violates the language rules in order to make the song
becomes more appealing. The example is in the lyric of song entitled “Swalla”
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sung by Jason DeRulo featuring Nicky Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign. There are lines
in the lyric which are He copping that Valentino ain’t telling me no and the next
line is I’m that bitch and he know. In the second line it should be I’m that bitch
and he knows since the third singular is always followed by verb with suffix {–s}.
However, the songwriter chose to use the word know in order to make the same
rhyme with the previous line which ends with the word no. This makes the lines
rhyme each other and make the song more appealing.
In this study, Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics are analyzed since there are some
predicted deviations in the lyrics. Stylistics becomes the approach that is used in
order to answer the problem formulation in this study. Besides, the phonological
effects from the grammatical deviation are discussed as well. The phonological
effects are related to the rhyme and meter.
Bebe Rexha is an American singer who is also a songwriter. Her music
genre is mostly pop and RnB. Rexha does not write songs for herself. She writes
some songs which are sung by other musicians such as Selena Gomez, Eminem,
Iggy Azalea and other singers. However, in this study the researcher chooses five
songs of Bebe Rexha, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “Me, Myself and I”, “The Way
I Are”, and “I’m a Mess”. This is because the songs are listed in Hot 100 songs in
the Billboard’s chart history according to www.billboard.com. This means her
songs are listened by many people. Besides, as it is stated in
www.aceshowbiz.com, an online magazine, she got 17 nominations and 5 awards
for her work as a singer and a songwriter.
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B. Problem Formulation
This study discusses some problems in order to analyze the grammatical
deviation in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics. The problems are:
1. What types of grammatical deviation are found in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics?
2. How does the grammatical deviation create phonological effects of rhyme and
meter in the song lyrics?
C. Objectives of the Study
There are two objectives of the study that are going to be analyzed based
on the problem formulation above. The first objective is to find out the types of
grammatical deviations that are found in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics. The second
objective is to describe the phonological effects of rhyme and meter that occur in
several lines in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics influenced by the grammatical
deviation. The phonological effects of rhyme and meter are explained more in this
study. The lines that are not deviated grammatically are not discussed in this
study.
D. Definition of Term
There are some terms that will be repeated several times. Those terms
will be used by the researcher in the analysis to provide answers to the problem.
Those terms are grammatical deviation and phonological effect.
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Grammar is something important to know if someone wants to be able
to speak in a language. Grammar is defined as “the knowledge that the speakers
have about the units and rules of their language” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams,
2011, p. 13). The example is the rules that make the sounds are combined and
becomes words, the words are combined and becomes phrases then sentences.
Grammatical means that “a sentence conforms to the rules of mental
grammar” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 13). Meanwhile, grammatical
deviation means that a sentence is not following the rules and violates the
grammar of a language that is used.
Phonology is the study of how speech sounds form pattern (Fromkin,
Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 227). In phonology, it discusses the sounds in a
language which differ from one to another language. Phonological effects mean
the results of the phonological phenomena in sentences or in texts. In this study,
the phonological effects are found due to the grammatical deviation in the Bebe
Rexha’s song lyrics.
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CHAPTER II
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part reviews related
studies. In this part the researcher discusses similar studies that other researchers
have done. The second is review of related theories. In this part, the theories that
are going to be used to discuss the study are presented. The third is theoretical
framework. In the last part, the researcher explains how the theories and the
reviews are used to solve the problems in this study.
A. Review of Related Studies
The first similar study is “Grammatical Errors and Their Effects in Rich
Brian’s Songs” written by Petra (2018). The object of the study focuses on the
song lyrics by Rich Brian. He chooses three songs that are written by Rich Brian,
those are “Dat $tick”, “Glow Like That”, and “Who That Be”.
The aims of the study are to find the grammatical deviations in Rich
Brian’s songs and to find the effects of the grammatical deviations in the songs. In
his study, Petra (2018) analyzes the sentences, phrases, and words in Rich Brian’s
“Dat $tick”, “Glow Like That”, and “Who That Be” using the stylistics approach
on the grammatical and phonological level. In his study, Petra (2018) finds out
several grammatical errors which include the omission, double negative, error of
preposition, error of verb, error of pronoun, and overgeneralization. The effects of
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the grammatical errors in the songs are rhyme and meter in order to make some
desired effects towards the listener of the songs.
The difference between Petra’s (2018) study and this current study is that
the object of the study. Even though both studies use songs lyrics, the singers are
not the same. However, the approach is similar. This study will also use stylistics
as the approach to analyze the problems.
The second similar topic is Asmara’s (2018) study entitled Phonological
Features in Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” Poems. In
his study, he discusses the phonological features that are found in Robert Frost’s
poems. Those two poems are Frost’s works that are obtained in the New
Hampshire.
The purpose of the study in Asmara’s (2018) study is to discover the
phonological features in the poems that are used by Robert Frost in writing those
poems. Another purpose is to discover the style that is used by Robert frost in
making “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems. In his study, the
researcher analyzes every line in the “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay”
poems using the stylistics approach. The phonological level of stylistics is the
main approach in his study.
In his study, the researcher finds the types of rhyme, the end rhyme
pattern, meter, and repetition of sound which the poet used in both “Fire and Ice”
and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems. Another finding is the style that Robert Frost
used in writing the poems. He states that Robert Frost has a style called
rhythmical style.
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There are similarities and differences in this study and Asmara’s (2018)
study. The difference lies on the object of the study. In Asmara’s (2018) study, he
chooses “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems written by Robert Frost as
the object while in this study the researcher chooses songs by Bebe Rexha.
However, the approach that is used by Asmara (2018) and the researcher of this
study is the same. Both researchers choose stylistic approach.
The third study is “Grammatical Deviation in President Jokowi’s Speech
to the APEC CEO Summit” written by Budiharto (2018). In his study, the
researcher analyzes the speech of President Jokowi. The aim of the study is to find
out the types of grammatical deviation in the speech. Another aim of this study is
to find out the extent of the grammatical deviation in President Jokowi’s speech
related to the the speaker’s social status.
In order to solve the problems, Budiharto (2018) uses the analytical
descriptive method. President Jokowi’s speech in the APEC CEO Summit was
observed and analyzed in order to find its grammatical deviation on the basis of
the framework which uses the theory by Leech. Furthermore, he also identified
the social status of the speaker by using Trudgill’s theory
In Budiharto’s (2018) study, the researcher finds that there are two types
of grammatical deviation in the speech. The first one is morphological deviation.
This means that there are addition and reduction of morphemes incorrectly from a
word (Budiharto, 2018, p.93). The second one is syntactic deviation which means
it is about the pattern of the grammar arranged incorrectly. Another finding in the
study is related to the social status of the speaker, or in this case is President
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Jokowi. In his study, Budiharto (2018) states that the grammatical deviation is not
only done by an uneducated person, but it can happen to educated people as well
(Budiharto, 2018, p.95). According to Budiharto (2018), this againsts the theory
of Trudgill about the Standard English that is used by honorable and educated
people while they who do not speak in Standard English are considered as ‘poor’
and not educated. However, the theory of Trudgill is irrelevant in this case since
Trudgill’s theory is about the native speaker of a language which is English. Thus,
it makes Budiharto’s (2018) finding in this part becomes his weakness in his
study.
The study that is done by Budiharto (2018) has several differences
compared to this study. Budiharto’s (2018) study chooses the speech of President
Jokowi in OPEC CEO Summit as his object of the study, while in this study the
researcher uses Bebe Rexha’s song as mentioned before. Even though the
approach that is used in both studies is stylistic approach, Budiharto (2018) uses
analytical descriptive method including the theories from Leech about
grammatical deviation and Trudgill about the Standard English. Meanwhile, in
this current study the researcher uses stylistic approach that will lead to the
phonological matters in order to solve the problems. However, Budiharto’s (2018)
study and this study discuss the same topic which is grammatical deviation.
The fourth study is “A Stylistic Analysis of The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner” written by Shaukat Khan et al (2016). The object of the study is the
poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge entitled “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”. The aims of the study are to show the special interpretive capacity of
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the elements of the poem, bring out the interpretive potential of the semantically
deviant units in the poem, point out the typographical deviations in the encoding
of the poem’s unique message (Khan et al, 2016, 43). In his study, Khan et al
(2016) uses the approach of stylistics to analyze the poem.
The first result of Khan et al’s study is the typographical deviation that is
found has marked the climax of the poem. Besides, the interpretive value in
deviant parts of the poem can be concluded that it is quite high. The study of
Khan et al (2016) and this study are similar due to the approach that is used. Khan
et al (2016) and the researcher of this study uses the stylistics approach. The
difference lies on the object of the study. Khan et al (2016) uses poem while this
study uses songs. The aim of the study is also different since this study leads to
the phonological effects that exist in the song while the study by Khan et al
(2016) leads to semantic matters.
B. Review of Related Theories
In this part the researcher discusses the theories that are used in order to
analyze the object of this study. The theories that are discussed in the following
discussion are only the theories that are close to the problems of this study. The
theories are stylistics, deviation, phonology, and also song.
1. Stylistics
“Stylistics is defined as the analysis of distinctive expression in language
and the description of its purpose and effect” (Verdonk, 2002, p. 4). It means the
language that a writer or a speaker uses has characteristics that differentiate a
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writer or a speaker with other writers or speakers. This is because everyone has
his or her own preference in using or choosing words.
Stylistics can be used to analyze a written and spoken language. Stylistics
can be used to analyze a non-literary and literary text. In literary work, “it is used
to show how the technical linguistic features of the literary work contribute to the
meaning and effects” (Barry, 2009, p. 196). One of the examples of the technical
linguistic feature is grammatical structure. A writer has his or her preference in
choosing dictions for sentences used in his or her literary work. This makes every
writer has his or her own style.
In stylistics, there are several levels of stylistic analysis which are
semantic level, syntactic level, graphological level, and phonological level (Leech
& Short, 2007, pp. 101-105). Among four levels of stylistic analysis, the
researcher only uses two levels: syntactic level and phonological level. The
syntactic level discusses about grammar or the grammatical structure in a text. In
this study it is used to analyze the lyric of Bebe Rexha’s songs. Besides, the
phonological level is also used in this study. This is because phonology deals with
meter and rhyme that are also needed to discuss the object of this study.
2. Deviation
A linguistic deviation is “a disruption of the normal processes of
communication: it leaves a gap, as it were, in one’s comprehension of the text”
(Leech, 1969, p. 61). This means the language that is used by a writer or a speaker
is being violated. The writer or the speaker does not follow the rules of the
language and it creates the deviation.
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Shamisa states that “there is almost no literary work that does not involve
a sort of deviation from ordinary language” (Shamisa as cited in Pirnajmuddin and
Medhat, 2011, p. 1329). In other words, deviation is something common in
literary works including in a poem. The deviation in the literary work such as
poem differentiates the daily language that people use and the language that a poet
uses in a poem. In poem, it needs a strong word to deliver the ideas of the writer
and the daily language is assumed to be ineffective. Therefore, according to
Shamisa, the deviation in a poem is seen as something that cannot be neglected
since the importance and the influence of a literary work depends on it (Shamisa
in Pirnajmuddin and Medhat, 2011, p.1329).
According to Budiharto (2018), Leech asserts deviations with the concept
of foregrounding (2018, p. 88). Leech (1969) states that linguistic deviation is the
foregrounded figure in a literary work and the language of the literary work
considered as the background (1969, p.57). In other words, deviation in linguistics
is related to the word foregrounding. Foregrounding is the psychological effect
that rises within the literary readers (Verdonk, 2002, p.6). It means the
foregrounding refers to the aesthetic effects that appear in literary works affected
by the deviation.
Leech (1969) also mentions eight types of deviation. Those deviations
are grammatical, lexical, phonological, graphological, semantic, dialectical,
register, and historical period deviation (Leech, 1969, pp. 42-52). In this study, the
grammatical deviation is discussed further in order to analyze the object in this
study.
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3. Grammatical Deviation
“When a sentence is ungrammatical or breaking the rules of grammar,
the sentence is deviated” (Budiharto, 2018, p. 86). In other words, grammatical
deviation is the term for a sentence that is grammatically incorrect or breaking the
grammar rules of a language. The example is the deviations that occur in African
American Vernacular English (AAVE). In AAVE, one of the distinctive
grammatical features is the omission of verb be in a sentence. For example is in
the sentence the soup hot. The sentence is not conforming the grammatical rules.
The sentence is supposed to be the soup is hot.
In grammatical deviation, there are two different features or types. Those
features are syntax and morphology (Leech, 1969, p. 44). In syntax, it deals with
the word pattern in sentences. In morphology, it deals with the grammar of the
word. These types of grammatical deviation are the important things that the
researcher tries to find. This is because the first problem in this study is to find the
types of grammatical deviation in the Bebe Rexha’s songs.
a. Syntax
“Syntax is part of grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of
sentences and their structures” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 118). This
means that when someone speaks in a particular language, he or she already
knows the structure of the language in his or her head. The speaker knows how to
combine some words into sentences. This is called the rules of syntax which
require the correct word order in a language.
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The rules of syntax depend on the language. A different language will
have different rules as well. In English, it is SVO language or Subject-Verb-
Object language. For example is the word Sally baked a cake. In that sentence,
Sally is the subject, baked is the verb and cake is the object.
In grammatical deviation, syntax deals with the errors of grammar in a
sentence that makes it incorrect in its structure. Besides, it also deals with
syntactic rearrangement or hyperbaton (Leech, 1969, p. 45). “Hyperbaton is the
freedom poets have enjoyed by custom so that he or she can make the arranging
syntactic elements in irregular order” (Leech, 1969, p. 18). This creates a
possibility for a poet to violate the grammatical rules such as putting a verb after
the direct object. Leech (1969) also gives the example in the words he me saw that
is supposed to be he saw me (1969, p. 45).
There are some errors in English grammar that people make. For a poet it
is common for them to make errors in order to create their literary works more
aesthetic. Those errors in English grammar will be discussed in following
discussion.
i. Double Negation
According to Blanchette (2015), double negation is “a sentence with
multiple negative elements corresponding to a single semantic negation or it is
also called negative concord” (p. 2). In other words, double negation occurs when
two negative expressions are in the same sentence. For example is in the sentence
I didn’t eat no food this morning. In that sentence there are two negatives
expressions which are didn’t and no.
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According to Crystal (2008) double negation in a single sentence is not
acceptable in Standard English (p.324). The reason is that the listener or the
reader may confuse with the meaning. For example is in the sentence I don’t eat
nothing and the speaker actually means that he or she has not eat anything.
However, the sentence means he or she eats something. This is because of the two
negative expressions in the sentence.
ii. Omission
Ellipsis or omission is “a term in grammatical analysis which means an
omission of a part of structure in a sentence” (Crystal, 2008, p. 166). It means that
a sentence with ellipsis is not a complete sentence. The example is in the sentence
Been there before as the answer of Have you ever visited that city?. The full
answer or sentence is actually I have been there before. However, the subject I
and the auxiliary verb have is omitted.
There are several types of omission since there are several parts in a
sentence. There are omission of subject, omission of article, omission of modal
auxiliary, omission of linking verb, omission of preposition and omission of
object. For example, in a sentence the subject is omitted then it is called the
omission of subject.
iii. Overgeneralization
“Overgeneralization refers to the process whereby children extend their
use of grammatical feature to context beyond those found in the adult language”
(Crystal, 2008, p. 345). Meaning to say that overgeneralization is commonly done
by children when they start to acquire a language and have not known yet certain
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words in correct form as it is supposed to be. However, it is not only children who
acquire a language. Some adults in this world also try to acquire a foreign
language and they also tend to make a mistake which is overgeneralization. This
is stated by Matiini (2016) that overgeneralization is the learners’ own way to
make rules of the second language because of the influence of the first language
(Matiini, 2016, hal. 145). The example is when someone who learns English say
‘mouses’ instead of ‘mice’. This is because commonly the plural noun in English
is added a suffix which is {–s} or {–es}.
iv. Deviation of Verb
“Verb is a term used in the grammatical classification of words to refer to
a class traditionally defined as ‘doing’ or ‘action word” (Crystal, 2008, p. 510).
From the definition, it means that verb is used in a sentence to describe what the
subject does. Besides, the deviation of verb means that the verb is used
incorrectly. For example is in the sentence He doin’ it. The sentence is supposed
to be He does it since the subject of the sentence is the third singular person.
v. Deviation of Preposition
“Preposition is a term in grammatical classification of words that refers
to a set of items which typically precedes noun phrases to form a single
constituent of structure” (Crystal, 2008, p. 383). In other words, preposition is
used to connect between two nouns. The example of preposition is in, for, of, on,
and so on. The example of deviation of preposition can be seen in the sentence we
arrive to Jakarta. The preposition to is not correct and it is supposed to be at since
the correct preposition of arrive is at or in.
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vi. Deviation of Pronoun
“Pronoun is the lexical category functions as noun phrase in isolation”
(Trask, 1996, pp. 221-222). This means that pronoun can stand without any
article. Moreover, pronoun can be a subject and also object in a sentence. The
example of pronoun is they, we, I, you, she, he, me, my, mine, and so on. Those
pronouns sometimes appear in incorrect way which is called deviation of pronoun.
The example is in the words this is me phone. In that sentence, the pronoun me is
supposed to be my since the sentence needs a possessive pronoun to show the
owner of the object.
vii. Deviation of Article
“Article is a determiner which lacks independent meaning but serves to
indicate the degree of specificity of noun phrase” (Trask, 1996, p. 21). In other
words, an article is meaningless if it stands alone. In English, there are two kinds
of article, which are definite article and indefinite article. The example of definite
article is the and the example of indefinite article is a or an. The example of
deviation of article is in the words they hid in a isolation place. In that sentence,
the correct article is an since the following word is begun with vowel.
viii. Deviation of Noun
“Noun is defined as one of the lexical categories that denote individual
physical entities” (Trask, 1996, p. 188). Commonly, noun is associated with the
notion of ‘name’ and ‘thing’ (Crystal, 2008, p. 333). It means, the noun can be the
subject and the object. The example of noun is dog, table, the girl, and so on.
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The deviation of noun sometimes occurs in a sentence. The example of
deviation of noun is in the sentence he eats some candy. The noun candy in the
sentence is incorrect. It is supposed to be candies because the number of the
candy is more than one and it can be seen from the determiner some.
b. Morphology
“Morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure or
forms of words” (Crystal, 2008, p. 314). This means morphology discusses word-
formation or the process to make new words. For example is the information of
how a word can be formed by adding affixes which is called affixation. When the
word happy is added by the prefix {-un} then it becomes unhappy. The word that
is changed also changes the meaning from happy which means a good feeling into
unhappy which means unpleasant feeling.
4. Phonology
“Phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies the sound system of
languages” (Crystal, 2008, p. 365). In phonology, the speech sounds are being
studied. By studying phonology, someone can differentiate which sounds that
have meaning and which sounds that are meaningless in a language. For example
is the word blcak is meaningless in English. However, the word black has a
meaning in English which is the name of color. Besides that, phonology also deals
with rhyme and also meter that is explained in following discussion.
In phonology, it also studies the poetic devices which are used to analyze
the literary text which is poetry. Those devices are rhyme, meter, consonance,
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assonance, and alliteration. However, this study will only discussed the effects in
rhyme and meter.
a. Rhyme
Rhyme, as stated by Madden (2002), is the sounds that come at the final
lines when the final vowel and consonant sounds in a word at the end of one line
match the vowel and consonant sounds at the end of another (2002, p. 70). This
means that rhyme focuses on the nucleus and the coda in the last word of a line
which similar to the last word in the previous or in the next line. “This will make
the mind of the listener starts to recognize the patterns and to anticipate what will
follow” (Bradley, 2009, p. 50).
There are three kinds of rhyme. First is monosyllabic rhyme. The
example of it is the words rat and cat. Second is disyllabic just like in the words
jelly and belly. Third is multisyllabic in the words achromatic and acrobatic.
Besides, “rhyme comes in numerous varieties and each has a distinct function in
sound and sense” (Bradley, 2009, p. 57). First is perfect rhyme or full rhyme
which words have the same vowel and also the consonants that are identical. The
examples for the perfect rhyme are the words tall and call. Second is slant rhyme
or imperfect rhyme which involves shared final-consonant sounds but different
vowel sounds (Bradley, 2009, p. 57). The example is the word all and bowl.
b. Meter
Meter refers to “the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented
syllables in poetry” (Arp & Johnson, 2009, hal. 1664). Madden (2002) defines
meter as the pattern of stressed ( / ) and unstressed ( ˇ ) syllables in a line (2002, p.
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71). This stressed and unstressed pattern are something important to observe in
the poetry. Besides, this element is also used to observe other literary work. In this
case, song is also included.
According to Madden (2002) the group of syllables making up one
metrical unit is called foot (p. 71). There are four types of metrical feet: iambic,
trochaic, anapestic and dactylic. Those metrical feet are usually applied by poets
in writing poems. Furthermore, the number of feet in each line is described as
monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter and
octameter.
i. Iambic
In this iambic foot, it begins with unstressed syllable. The unstressed
syllable is marked with ( ˇ ). Then it is continued by the stressed syllable. The
stressed syllable is marked with ( / ). The example is:
ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ /
1) Shall I | compare | thee to | a sum | mer’s day
ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ /
2) Thou art | more love | ly and | more tem | perate
From the example above it can be seen that those lines are begun with
unstressed syllables shall and thou. They are followed by the stressed syllables I
and art. This metrical pattern is repeated 5 times which makes 5 feet in every line.
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ii. Trochaic
In this foot there are two syllables as well. Those are stressed syllable
and unstressed syllable. In this foot, the stressed syllable is followed by the
unstressed syllable. The example is:
/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ
1) Deep in | heart-wrung | tears I’ll | ledge thee
/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ
2) Warring | sighs and | groans I’ll | wage thee
The two lines are begun with stressed syllable deep and war-. They are
followed by unstressed syllable in and -ring. This metrical pattern is repeated 4
times. This means there are 4 feet in every line above.
iii. Anapestic
Anapestic is different from iambic and also trochaic. In anapestic, it
contains two unstressed and one stressed syllable. Anapestic begins with two
unstressed syllable then follows the one stressed syllable. The example is:
ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ /
1) The Assyr | ian came down | like the wolf | on the fold
ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ /
2) When the blue | waves rolls nigh | tly on deep | Galilee
It can be seen from the example above that in the first foot in every line
has two unstressed syllable and it is followed by one stressed syllable. This
metrical pattern is repeated 4 times that makes 4 feet in every line.
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iv. Dactylic
Dactylic has the same number of syllables with the anapestic. The
difference is that in dactylic foot, it begins with one stressed syllable and followed
by two unstressed syllables. The example is:
/ ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ
1) Are you still | standing there | east of the | Garden of Eden or
/ ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ
2) Were you re | lieved by the | flood that re | vised our ge | ography
The example above shows that in dactylic each line is begun with a
stressed syllable: are and were. They are followed by 2 unstressed syllables in one
foot: you still and you re-. There are 4 feet in every line since the metrical pattern
is repeated 4 times.
5. Song
According to Ammer (2004), song is defined as “any piece of vocal
music” (p. 389) and “lyric is the text of the song” (p. 223). The lyric in a song is
similar to a poetry since both share the same characteristics which one of them is
rhyme. This is supported by Vosahlik (2016) that “common feature for both lyric
and poetry is rhyme” (p. 13).
The writer of lyric and poetry also have their own style in creating the
lyric and poetry related to the rhyme. In other words, lyric and poetry can be
treated the same way in stylistics. In addition, they can be analyzed through the
perspective of phonetic since rhyme is one of the phonetic devices.
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Usually, a song lyric is categorized in lyric poetry. Lyric poetry is
“characterized by the expression of the speaker’s innermost feelings, thoughts,
and imagination” (Madden, 2002, p. 76). This makes the contents of songs mostly
are telling a story and expressing the singer’s mind.
C. Theoretical Framework
The approach that is used in this study is stylistic approach and the level
that the researcher chooses in this study is on the syntactical level or grammatical
level. In this syntactical level, the theory helps the researcher to analyze the
structure in the songs. Moreover, the researcher also chooses the stylistic
approach in phonological level. This helps the researcher to find the possible
effects of the song to the listener through the rhyme and the meter of the songs.
The theory of deviation is also important in this study. The theory of
deviation that focuses on the grammatical deviation helps the researcher find the
answer of the first problem in this study which is about the types of the
grammatical deviation. Then, the researcher analyzes the songs and makes a
conclusion about the types of grammatical deviation found in the songs.
Another theory in this study is phonology. The theory of phonology
consists of two main theories which are rhyme and meter. These theories are used
in this study to analyze the pattern of the songs including the stressed and
unstressed syllable in the songs that will relate to the grammar and structure. This
will help the researcher to find the answer of the second problem which is about
the phonological effects of the grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs.
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CHAPTER III
METHODOLOGY
In this chapter there are three main parts to discuss. The first is the object
of the study. In this part the researcher discusses the data of this study. The second
is approach of the study. In this part, the researcher discusses the approach that is
used to analyze the data that the researcher has collected. The third is the method
of the study. In this part, it shows the way the researcher collected the data and
then analyzed the data.
A. Object of the Study
The object in this study is the song lyrics of Bebe Rexha’s songs. As a
singer and also a songwriter, Bebe Rexha is quite productive in writing and
arranging songs. There are several song lyrics that she wrote and sang herself.
However, in this study the researcher chose five Bebe Rexha’s songs which are
placed in Hot100 in the billboard’s chart history according to www.billboard.com.
Those songs are “I’m a Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and
I” and “I Got You”. The lyrics of the songs are taken from www.azlyrics.com.
The five songs of Bebe Rexha were chosen based on the grammatical
deviation which found as well. One of the example of the grammatical deviation
was clearly found in one of the song titles which is “The Way I Are”. In the title,
the pronoun I was followed by an auxiliary are, however it should be followed by
an auxiliary am.
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B. Approach of the Study
This study applied stylistic approach in analyzing the object which were
the songs of Bebe Rexha. Stylistic approach was conducted in two levels:
grammatical level and phonological level. “Stylistics is defined as the analysis of
distinctive expression in language and the description of its purpose and effect”
(Verdonk, 2002, p. 4). This means that stylistics also discusses the purpose and
the effect of a certain text and in this case the text is from the lyric of Bebe
Rexha’s songs. Since this study analyzed the language style in Bebe Rexha’s
songs and its effects, stylistic approach was suitable for this research.
C. Method of the Study
1. Data Collection
This research applied a sample study as the data collection method. This
means that the researcher only chose some of Bebe Rexha’s songs. In this study,
the researcher chose five songs of Bebe Rexha and those songs were “I’m a
Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and I” and “I Got You”.
Furthermore, in this study the researcher applied the purposive sampling strategy.
This required the researcher to choose what to be sampled and it had to be able to
purposefully inform an understanding of the research problem and central
phenomenon in the study (Creswell, 2007, p. 125). In other words, the sample was
not randomly chosen.
In analyzing the data in this study, the researcher conducted several steps.
First, the researcher chose the data which were Bebe Rexha’s songs entitled “I’m
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a Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and I” and “I Got You”
from the Billboard’s chart history. Second, the researcher found the lyrics in
www.azlyrics.com. Third, the researcher observed the grammatical deviations in
the lyrics. Forth, the researcher analyzed the process that made the grammar in the
lyrics were deviated in order to answer the problem formulations in this study.
2. Data Analysis
In order to answer the two problems, the researcher observed the lyrics of
Bebe Rexha’s songs. First of all, the researcher looked for the grammatical
deviations in the song lyrics. Then, the grammatical deviations were analyzed and
classified into some categories based on the process that occur such as double
negation, ellipsis, deviation of verb and so on. Next, the grammatical deviations in
the lyrics were categorized into two types of grammatical deviation which were
syntax and morphology. This was in order to answer the first problem in this
study which was about the types of grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs.
After answering the first problem in this study, the researcher conducted
the next analysis which was phonological analysis towards the lyrics of Bebe
Rexha’s songs. The researcher analyzed the rhyme and meter in the lyrics as the
possible effects of the grammatical deviations that occurred in the lyrics of Bebe
Rexha’s songs. However, the researcher only observed the sentences or lines in
the lyrics that were grammatically deviated. The sentences which were not
grammatically deviated were not discussed in this study. This was conducted in
order to answer the second problem which was the phonological effects caused by
the grammatical deviations in the lyrics of Bebe Rexha’s song.
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CHAPTER IV
ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS
In this chapter, there will be two main parts that will be discussed by the
researcher. The first part discusses about the types of grammatical deviation in
Bebe Rexha’s songs in order to find the answer for the first problem formulation.
The second part discusses about the phonological effects of the grammatical
deviation which are found in the Bebe Rexha’s songs. This part is for answering
the second problem formulation in this study.
A. Types of Grammatical Deviation Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics
In this part the researcher analyzes the types of grammatical deviation in
Bebe Rexha’s songs. There are two types of grammatical deviation which are
syntax or syntactical deviation and morphology or morphological deviation
(Leech, 1969, p. 44). However, in the five Bebe Rexha’s songs there is only
syntactical deviation and the researcher does not find the morphological deviation
in the songs.
In syntactical deviation, the deviations in Bebe Rexha’s songs that are
already analyzed by the researcher are categorized into seven grammatical
deviation processes. Those processes are omission, deviation of verb, double
negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article, deviation of preposition and
overgeneralization. In this part, researcher discusses all the grammatical
deviations occur in the songs based on the grammatical deviation processes.
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The researcher provides the information about the grammatical
deviations processes found in Bebe Rexha’s songs in the table below.
Table 1. The Summary of Grammatical Deviations Occur
in Bebe Rexha’s Songs
The table above shows the total deviations found in five songs of Bebe
Rexha which is 50 deviations. The table shows there are seven grammatical
deviation processes as well. The grammatical deviation process of omission
dominates the whole grammatical deviation since it has the highest percentage
which is 78 %. The frequency for the omission is 39. The deviations of verb found
in the songs are 5 and the percentage for it is 10 %. This makes the deviation of
verb lies in the second position after the omission. The third place is in the
deviation that is categorized as double negation. There are two double negations
in the songs and the percentage is 4 %. The rest of the grammatical deviation
processes such as deviation of noun, deviation of article, overgeneralization and
deviation of preposition have the same frequency which is only 1 deviation. The
percentage is also the same: 2 %. Those grammatical deviation processes is
discussed in the following discussion.
No Grammatical Deviation
Process
Frequency Percentage (%)
1. Omission 39 78 %
2. Deviation of Verb 5 10 %
3. Double Negation 2 4 %
4. Deviation of Noun 1 2 %
5. Deviation of Article 1 2 %
6. Deviation of Preposition 1 2 %
7. Overgeneralization 1 2 %
Total 50 100 %
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1. Omission
The omission is one of the grammatical deviation processes that is mostly
found in the five Bebe Rexha’s songs. There are 39 grammatical deviations of
omission found from a total 50 grammatical deviations in those five Bebe Rexha’s
songs. It means that grammatical deviation of omission dominate more than a half
of grammatical deviations found in the songs. The omission in the songs mostly
occurs in the subject of the sentences. This means that most of the sentences in the
song lyrics have no subject in them. The example is in the line Pop a couple xans
with somebody in Bebe Rexha’s song “Meant to be”. In the sentence, the subject
is omitted. The correct form of the sentence is I pop a couple xans with somebody.
In five songs of Bebe Rexha, the researcher finds six types of omission.
Those are omission of subject, omission of article, omission of modal auxiliary,
omission of linking verb, omission of object and omission of preposition. The
further explanation of those six types of omission is provided bellow.
a. Omission of Subject
The first type of omission is the omission of subject. All five songs by
Bebe Rexha have the grammatical deviation in omission of subject in them. The
omission of subject in the songs in total is 30 from 39 grammatical deviation of
omission. Those 30 omissions of subject occur in the four songs out of five songs
that are being studied. Those are “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “The Way I
Are” and “I’m a Mess”. The full display of omission of subject is provided in the
appendix 1. The table below only provides the sample from the five songs of Bebe
Rexha.
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Table 2. Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself and I” Get what I want when I
want
I get what I want when I
want
Don't want to work for it They don’t want to work
for it
Made it right here 'cause
I'm sick with it Cudi
I made it right here
because I’m sick with it
Cudi
“The Way I Are” Can't dance but kinda
grind 'em
I cannot dance but I kind
of grind them
Roll it up 'cause we so ill We roll it up because we
are so ill
“I Got You” Lookin' like you need it We don’t have to be so
guarded
Tell a lie for you I would tell a lie for you
“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere
fast
We do not need to go
anywhere fast
See where this thing goes We will see where this
things goes
“I’m a Mess” Have a drink on me
cheers to the failing
They have a drink on me
cheers to the failing
The table shows the grammatical deviations in omission of subject in five
songs of Bebe Rexha. In the song “Me, Myself and I” there are 12 omissions of
subject. In “The Way I Are” there are 9 omissions of subject. In the song “I Got
You” there are 6 omissions of subject. Meanwhile, in “I’m a Mess” there is only
one omission of subject.
The subjects omitted are different in each sentence. This depends on the
context of the song. This also depends on the person or people that the singer is
talking to. For example is in the song “Me, Myself and I”. All the subjects in the
song is I. This is because in the song, the singers which are Bebe Rexha and G-
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Eazy want to show their expression. They want to show their mind and opinion to
others. It can be seen in the line:
Get what I want when I want
Know I’m great
Those sentences show the speaker’s or the singer’s mind about himself or herself.
The correct sentences are:
I get what I want when I want
I know I’m great
This is different from the sentence with omission of subject in the song “I
Got You”. One of the sentences in “I Got You” is:
Tell a lie for you
The subject that is needed is I since the song is talking about the singer’s hope
towards someone else. In that sentence the speaker or the singer commits to do
something in the future. Therefore, the auxiliary will or would is needed after the
subject I. The sentence that precedes the sentence above is I’d do the time for you
or in the full form is I would do the time for you. Thus, the correct sentence for the
deviated sentence above is:
I would tell a lie for you
The auxiliary would is used in order to keep the consistency of the sentences since
in the previous sentence it uses the word would.
Another example is in the song “The Way I Are” in the line:
Roll it up ‘cause we so ill
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In this song, the singer tells others about her and her friends. This means the
subject is first person plural we. This can be seen from the line that after the
conjunction ‘cause or because, the subject is we. Therefore, the correct subject for
the line above is we.
We roll it up because we are so ill
The line above is the correct sentence for the deviated sentence in the lyric.
In the song “I’m mess” there is only one sentence that is grammatically
deviated. The deviated sentence in the lyric is:
Have a drink on me cheers to the failing
The correct sentence for the sentence above is:
They have a drink on me cheers to the failing
The subject they is chosen because in this part of the song, the singer is
describing people around her which act meanly to her. This means the singer talks
about the third person plural. The third person plural that is needed is they since
its role is an active subject that does something. Their and them are not correct for
it does not show the possession of something and it is not an object that is
affected.
b. Omission of Article
Omission of article only occurs in one out of five Bebe Rexha’s songs.
The song is “Me, Myself and I”. The further information is provided in the table
below:
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Table 3. Omission of Article in Bebe Rexha Songs
The table above shows the grammatical deviation which is omission of
article. The four omissions of article are found in Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and
I”. The four sentences are considered deviate the rules in English. This is stated by
Fromkin et al (2011) in one of the sentence examples in their book that in a
sentence which lack of article is ungrammatical (2011, p. 63). Meaning to say that
an article cannot be omitted in a sentence. In Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and I”
there are four sententences that the articles are omitted.
I just need privacy
I just need space
I’m folding cake
It’s no debate
Those sentences are lack of article which make them grammatically incorrect. The
sentences should be added by an indefinite article since the noun is indefinite.
Besides, the nouns in the four sentences are also firstly mentioned in those
sentences so it needs an indefinite article a or an. The correct forms of the
sentences are:
I just need a privacy
I just need a space
I’m folding a cake
It’s not a debate
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
And as far as I can see I
just need privacy
And as far as I can see I just need
a privacy
I just need space I just need a space
I'm folding cake I’m folding a cake
It's no debate It is not a debate
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Since all the nouns in the four lines above begin with non-vowel letter then the
indefinite article that is used is a.
c. Omission of Linking Verb
The researcher finds two omissions of linking verb after analyzing the
five songs by Bebe Rexha. The omissions of verb found in Bebe Rexha’s “The
Way I Are” and “Me, Myself and I”. The table below provides the examples about
the omissions of linking verb in two Bebe Rexha’s songs.
Table 4. Omission of Linking Verb in Bebe Rexha’s songs
Song Grammatical
Deviation
Grammatical
“The Way I Are” Roll it up ‘cause we
so ill
You roll it up because we are so ill
“Me, Myself and I” A Stella Maxwell
right beside of me
A Stella Maxwell is right beside
me
From the table it can be observed the sentences that are grammatically
deviated. For example is in the sentence:
Roll it up ‘cause we so ill
In that sentence there is no verb after the subject we and before the
adverb and adjective so and ill. The sentence will be correct when a linking verb
is added after the subject since the sentence is followed by adverb so and adjective
ill. This is supported by Fromkin et al (2011) that verb be is needed before the
adjective and it acts as an auxiliary (2011, pp. 153-154). Meaning to say that there
must be a verb after a subject and before the adjective or in this case is adjective
that precede by adverb. Therefore, the correct sentence will be:
We roll it up because we are so ill
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The linking verb that is added is are because the subject that precedes it is we
which is plural.
d. Omission of Modal Auxiliary
There is only one omission of modal auxiliary in Bebe Rexha song called
“The Way I Are”. The omission of modal auxiliary is found in the line:
I be right behind her spinal
The sentence shows what the speaker is going to do in the future. The sentence
above is grammatically incorrect since there is no modal auxiliary after the subject
I. According to Fromkin et al (2011), “auxiliaries provide the verb with a time
frame and one of them is events that occur in the future” (2011, p. 129). This
means that the appropriate modal auxiliary for showing the coming events is will.
Therefore, the sentence needs modal auxiliary will after the subject I. The correct
form of that sentence will be:
I will be right before her spinal
According to the discussion above, it shows the importance of modal
auxiliary in a sentence. If it is left behind then the sentence is incomplete. This
makes the sentence is grammatically deviated.
e. Omission of Preposition
The researcher analyzes five songs by Bebe Rexha and finds one
omission of preposition in one of the songs. The song is “Me, Myself and I”. The
omission of preposition is in the line:
Pray the Lord, my soul to take
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In the sentence, the speaker or singer wants to say that he or she pray to
the Lord. However, the sentence is incorrect because the preposition to is omitted.
The correct sentence will be:
I pray to the Lord, my soul to take
This is supported by the rule about the verb phrase containing preposition phrase
by Fromkin et al (2011) that one of the rules for the verb phrase is a verb and
followed by a prepositional phrase (2011, p. 132). It is described as:
VP V PP
For example is in the sentence The man sits on the bench. It explains in the
following discussion:
The man sits on the bench
V PP
The verb sit is followed by the prepositional phrase on the bench. Prepositional
phrase of course needs a preposition in it so it is called prepositional phrase. In the
example above, the preposition that is used is in.
In the lyric of “Me, Myself and I”, the line Pray the lord, my soul to take
it should be added by preposition so that it can be a prepositional phrase. The
appropriate preposition for the sentence is to since it is in a phrasal verb.
Pray the lord, my soul to take
V N
The rule is VP V PP so the sentence should be:
I pray to the Lord, my soul to take
V PP
The phrase to the Lord in the sentence above is the correct form for a
prepositional phrase.
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If the preposition to is omitted then it is not a prepositional phrase. This
will break the rule of verb phrase VP V PP which makes the sentence is
deviated or grammatically incorrect.
f. Omission of Object
Omission of object is found in one of Bebe Rexha’s songs that are being
analyzed in this study. It is in Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and I”. The lyric in the
song is:
Celebrate nightly and everyone rages.
The sentence is incomplete since there is no object after the verb celebrate. The
verb celebrate in this sentence is functioned as a transitive verb. Transitive verb is
a verb that can take a direct object (Crystal, 2008, p. 494). Meaning to say that
transitive verb requires an object or more than one objects. The appropriate object
for the sentence is it since a pronoun can be a direct object. The correct sentence
would be:
I celebrate it nightly and everyone rages
The word it refers to the success and the popularity that are gained by the speaker
or the singer as in the lyric.
2. Deviation of Verb
There are five deviations of verb found in Bebe Rexha’s songs. From five
songs that are being analyzed, the researcher only finds the deviation of verb in
the song “I’m a Mess” and “The Way I Are”. The detailed information about
deviations of verb that occur in the two songs is provided bellow.
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Table 5. Deviation of Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“I’m a Mess” Pretty sure he don’t
wanna be my baby
Pretty sure he does not want to be
my baby
He don’t love me
He does not love me
That’s what my therapist
say
That is what my therapist says
“The Way I
Are”
Love me the way I are You love me the way I am
Every time she dance it’s
exotic
Every time she dances it is exotic
The table shows the deviations in each song of Bebe Rexha. In “I’m a
Mess” there are three deviations of verb. Meanwhile, in the song “The Way I Are”
there are two deviations of verb. From the five deviations of verb exist in the two
songs, the four mistakes in verbs have third person singular as the subject.
According to Eastwood (2002) third person singular has a verb form which is S-
verb (p. 76). This means the verb should be added by suffix {-s}. In the song “I’m
a Mess” the sentences which have the incorrect form of verb are:
Pretty sure he don’t wanna be my baby
He don’t love me
That’s what my therapist say
The first and the second sentence has he as the subject and the third sentence has
my therapist. Those subjects are the third person singular which means the
following verb needs to be in S-form. Therefore the correct sentences are:
Pretty sure he does not want to be my baby
He does not love me
That’s what my therapist says
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The incorrect form of verb also occurs in the song “The way I Are” in the
sentence:
Every time she dance it’s exotic
The sentence has the third person singular as well which is she. Therefore the
correct sentence should be:
Every time she dances it’s exotic
However, it is different from another sentence that has deviation of verb in “The
Way I Are”. The sentence is:
Love me the way I are
In that sentence the subject is the first person singular I and it is followed by a
linking verb are. Based on Eastwood’s (2002) explanation, a singular noun I is
followed by an auxiliary verb am (p.105). Therefore, the correct sentence from the
sentence above is:
Love me the way I am
This rule is also used in the title of the song which comes from the
sentence above. The title of the song is “The Way I Are”. However, just like in
the sentence that is corrected. It should be “The Way I Am”.
3. Double Negation
There are two sentences in Bebe Rexha’s songs that contain double
negation. The two sentences are in her song entitled “Meant to be” and “I’m a
Mess”. The double negations in those two songs are discussed in the following
table.
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Table 6. Double Negation in Bebe Rexha’s Songs
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere
fast
You do not need to go anywhere
fast
“I’m a Mess” I don’t trust no one
around us
I do not trust anyone around us
Crystal (2008) states that double negation in a sentence is not acceptable
in Standard English (p. 324). This is because the two negative expressions affect
the meaning of the sentence. This can make people who read or listen a sentence
with double negative get confused because this distracts the logical structure. The
sentences in the songs are:
No need to go nowhere fast
I don’t trust no one around us
The speaker or the singer wants to deliver is actually:
You do not need to go anywhere fast
I do not trust anyone around us
Those sentences above are the correct forms. However, when the two negative
expressions are used in those sentences then the meaning will be different. Those
can be:
No need to go nowhere fast
You need to go somewhere fast
I don’t trust no one around us
I trust everyone around us
This is the reason people who read or listen to a sentence with double negation
can get confused in term of the meaning.
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4. Deviation of Noun
From five songs of Bebe Rexha that are analyzed in this study, there is
one song that has a deviation of noun. That deviation of noun exists in the song
“Me, Myself and I”. The deviation is in the line:
Plus a whole lot of tree
The sentence above is incorrect. This is because the line stating there is a
noun which is tree that is supposed to be in the plural form. This can be observed
by looking at the adverb that is used before the word tree: a lot of. Fromkin et al
(2011) explains that a plural noun should be added by suffix {-s} (p. 91). This
means that the noun tree in the line needs to be added by {-s} since it becomes
plural noun.
Plus a whole lot of trees
The sentence above is the correct form for the line in the lyric.
5. Deviation of Article
There is only one deviation of article that is found among the five songs
of Bebe Rexha. The only deviation of article exists in the song “The Way I Are”.
It is in the sentence bellow:
We can turn this dance floor to a island
In the sentence above is incorrect because the article a is not the
appropriate form for the noun island. The indifinite article a is used for a noun
that begins with a consonant sound while an is used for a noun that begins with a
vowel sound (Eastwood, 2002, p. 158). Therefore, the correct sentence for the
lyric is:
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We can turn this dance floor to an island
In the sentence above, the noun island is begun with the diphthong which
is /ʌɪ/ then the correct article for the noun is an. This is because diphthong is the
sequence of two vowels (Fromkin et al, 2011, pp. 248-249). This means,
diphthong is part of vowel as well.
6. Deviation of Preposition
There is only one deviation of preposition found in the songs of Bebe
Rexha. That sentence is a part of the song entitled “Me, Myself and I”. The
deviation is in the sentence:
A Stella Maxwell right beside of me
In the sentence above there are three prepositions. Those prepositions are
the word right, beside and of. The preposition beside in the sentence shows the
position or it is called preposition of place. Meanwhile, the preposition of of and
right are additional prepositions.
Eastwood (2002) explains that it is possible to modify the preposition
using right such us in right in front of the building (p. 287). However, Eastwood
(2002) also explains that the use of of is only in the words on to of, out of and in
front of. (p. 289). Therefore, the correct form of the senctence is:
A Stella Maxwell is right beside me
The additional preposition of of is not necessary in the sentence above. The
preposition right in the sentence above is an addition as well but it is still allowed
according to Eastwood (2002). Thus, it is correct to use it in that sentence.
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7. Overgeneralization
There is one deviation that is categorized as overgeneralization in five
songs of Bebe Rexha that are being analized in this study. It is in Bebe Rexha’s
“Me, Myself and I”. The sentence is:
It’s no debate
The sentence is incorrect because it uses the incorrect negative expression. It is
supposed to be not. The correct sentence is:
It’s not a debate
According to Eastwood (2002) the negative expression not or n’t comes
after an auxiliary (p.17). This means that the negative expression not in the
sentence is supposed to be preceded by an auxiliary is.
B. Phonological Effects of Rhyme and Meter as the Result of Grammatical
Deviation in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics
There are two phonological effects caused by the grammatical deviations
in Bebe Rexha’s songs. The first effect is rhyme. The second effect is meter or the
metrical pattern. These phonological effects are intended to make the songs
become more aesthetic and appealing when people listen to the songs.
From seven grammatical deviation processes that are discussed in this
study, three grammatical deviation processes have phonological effects. Those
grammatical deviation processes are omission, deviation of verb and deviation of
noun. The deviation of verb and deviation of noun in Bebe Rexha’s songs are
made to make the line is rhymed to previous and after the line. Besides, the
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omission is made in order to get the right metrical pattern in the lines of the songs.
Further explanation is discussed in the following discussion.
1. Rhyme
The first phonological effect caused by the grammatical deviation in
Bebe Rexha’s songs is rhyme. Rhyme is the sounds that come at the final lines
when the final vowel and consonant sounds in a word at the end of one line match
the vowel and consonant sounds at the end of another (Madden, 2002, p. 70). In
other words, rhyme occurs when the nucleus and the coda of two or more words
in different lines match one another in the end of the lines. In her songs, Bebe
Rexha deviates the grammatical rules in order to make the lines in the lyrics
rhymed. The discussion bellow is provided in order to discuss the rhyme in Bebe
Rexha’s songs in detail.
a. Deviation of Verb
The deviations of verb that create rhyme lie in two Bebe Rexha’s songs
from five songs that are analyzed in this study. Those songs are “I’m a Mess” and
“The Way I Are”. There is one line in each song that applies deviation of verb.
The first is the line in “I’m a mess” which is That’s what my therapist say. The
full lines are:
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
It's gonna be a good, good, life
That's what my therapist say
From the lyric it can be seen that the grammatical deviation occurs in the
last line above. The word say /seɪ/ is supposed to be says since the subject before
it is a third person singular. Besides, the second line ends with the word okay
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/əʊkeɪ/ which rhymes with the last line. This is because the word say and okay
have the same nucleus which is /eɪ/ and both words do not have coda. This means
that the songwriter deviates the last line in order to rhyme it to the previous line
which is the second line.
Table. 7 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb
in Bebe Rexha’s “I’m a Mess”
Lyric Rhyme Rhyme Pattern
Everything's gonna be alright /aɪt/ A
Everything's gonna be okay /eɪ/ B
It's gonna be a good, good, life /aɪf/ C
That's what my therapist say /eɪ/ B
From the table above, it can be seen that the rhyme pattern of the lines is
A-B-C-B. The word say in the fourth line and okay in the second line rhyme each
other since the nucleus are the same. Besides, the first line and the third line also
have the similarity which is in the nucleus /aɪ/.
The second line that applies deviation of verb is in the song “The Way I
Are”. The line is Just love me the way I are. Meanwhile, the full lines are:
It could be anybody
Tell me are you that somebody
Don’t matter who you are
Just love me the way I are
In the last line is suppossed to be Just the way I am. This is because the
subject I is followed by to be am which in the line is functioned as a verb.
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Therefore the correct form of the line should be Just love me the way I am.
However, the deviation is made in order to make the word are rhymes the
previous line which ends with the word are. The phonetic transcription for the
word are is /ɑ:/. This means that both are not only the same word but also have
the same nucleus in order to rhyme. The following table gives the further
information about the lines.
Table. 8 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb
in Bebe Rexha’s “The Way I Are”
Lyric Rhyme Rhyme Pattern
It could be anybody /i/ A
Tell me are you that somebody /i/ A
Don’t matter who you are /ɑ:/ B
Just love me the way I are /ɑ:/ B
The table above shows the rhyme and also the rhyme pattern of the lines
in the song “The Way I Are”. The first line has the same rhyme like in the second
line. Both last words have the same nucleus /i/ and do not have coda. Besides, the
third line has the same rhyme like in the fourth line. Both last words share the
same nucleus as well which is /ɑ:/. Both words also do not have coda just like the
first and the second line. This creates a rhyme pattern which is A-A-B-B.
b. Deviation of Noun
Besides the deviation of verb, the deviation of noun also creates rhyme.
There is only one line that creates rhyme as the effect of the deviation of noun.
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The line exists in the song “Me, Myself and I”. The line is plus a whole lt f tree
and the full lines are:
As far as I can see
I just need privacy
Plus a whole lot of tree
Fuck all this modesty
The correct form for the third line is plus a whole lot of trees. This is
because the word tree is meant to be plural. However, if the word tree is written in
the correct form it does not rhyme with the previous and the next lines which has
the same nucleus which is /i:/. The table below gives further information about the
rhyme.
Table. 9 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Noun
Lyric Rhyme Rhyme Pattern
As fas as I can see /i:/ A
I just need privacy /I/ B
Plus a whole lot of tree /i:/ A
Fuck all this modesty /I/ B
It can be observed in the table that the last word in the first line has the
sound /i:/ as its nucleus. In the third line, it also has the sound /i:/ in the last word.
This means that the first and the third line have the same rhyme. In addition, the
second and the fourth lines also share the same rhyme which is the sound /I/ as
their nucleus. This also means that both lines are rhymed each other. This makes
the rhyme pattern which is A-B-A-B.
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2. Meter
The second phonological effect as the result of the grammatical deviation
in Bebe Rexha’s songs is meter. “Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllable in a line” (Madden, 2002, p. 71). Therefore, in this part the researcher
analyzes the stressed and unstressed syllable in sentences that are deviated. The
stressed and unstressed syllables in the songs are analyzed based on the way the
singer sings the song and not based on the dictionaries. The researcher uses the
symbol (/) to show the stressed syllable and (ˇ) to show the unstressed syllable.
There are five deviated sentences in Bebe Rexha’s songs that create the
right meter. All the five sentences are in the grammatical deviation process of
omission which is omission of subject. The further discussion about meter in Bebe
Rexha’s songs is discussed below.
There are five sentences that have omission of subjects in three songs of
Bebe Rexha “I Got You”, “I’m a Mess” and “Me, Myself and I”. There are three
deviated lines in “I Got You”, one line in “I’m a Mess” and one line in “Me,
Myself and I”. The metrical patterns of the lines are discussed in this part.
The first is the omission of subject in the song “I Got You”. From six
deviated lines in this song, there are some of them that are discussed below. The
first is:
Tell you no lies
We can get lost
From the two lines above, the first line is deviated. The correct form for
the sentence in the first line is I tell you no lies. The subject I is needed since the
singer talks to the second person you. It can be seen from the previous line in the
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lyric that the singer or I directly talk to you as well. The first line above is
deviated to make the right metrical pattern. The metrical pattern is:
/ ˇ / ˇ
Tell you | no lies
/ ˇ / ˇ
We can | get lost
It can be seen from the two lines above that both lines have the same
metrical pattern. The first line begins with stressed syllable and it is followed by
unstressed syllable. This is called trochaic. The stressed syllable is tell and the
unstressed syllable is you. This also happens in the second line. The stressed
syllable is we and the unstressed syllable is can. Besides, there are two feet in
both lines. This is because the stressed and unstressed pattern is repeated twice.
From the explanation, it means that the first line is deviated in order to have the
same metrical pattern as the previous line.
The second example is in the following lines:
Tell me all your secrets
Lookin’ like you need it
Those lines are in the song “I Got You”. The first line has no subject since it is an
imperative sentence. The second line has no subject as well and this is a deviated
sentence. The second line is supposed to be You are looking like you need it. As it
is discussed above, the subject you is chosen since the singer communicate with
the second person you in the song. The deviation in the sentence is in order to
make the same metrical pattern as in the first line. The metrical patterns of the two
sentences are:
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/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ
Tell me | all your | secrets
/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ
Lookin’ | like you | need it
From the explanation above it can be observed that both sentences are
bigun with stressed syllables. Then, they are followed by unstressed syllables.
This means that the pattern is called trochaic. Besides, the stressed and unstressed
pattern is repeated three times. It means the lines have three feet and they are
called trochaic trimeter.
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CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION
In this part the researcher gives the conclusion of the two main
discussions as the answer of two problems. The first problem is to find the types
of grammatical deviation in five songs of Bebe Rexha. Those songs are “I’m a
Mess”, “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “The Way I Are” and “Meant to be. The
second problem is to describe how the phonological effects are created as the
result of the grammatical deviations in five Bebe Rexha’s songs.
In the first problem, researcher finds that there is only one type of
grammatical deviation which is syntactical deviation. In syntactical deviation, the
researcher finds seven grammatical deviation processes which are omission,
deviation of verb, double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article,
deviation of preposition and overgeneralization. There are 39 deviations of
omission, 5 deviations of verb, 2 double negations, 1 deviation of noun, 1
deviation of article, 1 deviation of preposition and 1 overgeneralization.
Therefore, the total number of the grammatical deviation is 50.
Grammatical deviation process that has the highest number is omission.
The omission occurs in all songs of Bebe Rexha. In this study, there are five types
of omission in the songs which are omission of subject, omission of article,
omission of modal auxiliary, omission of linking verb, omission of preposition
and omission of object. Among the omission processes, omission of subject has
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the highest frequency compared to other omission. Besides, the deviation of verb
occurs in two songs of Bebe Rexha which are “I’m a Mess” and “The Way I Are”.
The double negation occurs in two songs of Bebe Rexha as well. Those songs are
“Meant to be” and “I’m a Mess”. The deviation of noun only occurs in “Me,
Myself and I”. Just like the deviation of noun, the deviation of article only found
in one song which is “The Way I Are”. The deviation of preposition and
overgeneralization also occur in one song. The song is the same which is “Me,
Myself and I”.
The grammatical deviations in the five songs are made by Bebe Rexha on
purpose. In the second problem, the researcher finds that the grammatical
deviations occurs in five songs of Bebe Rexha make some phonological effects.
Those phonological effects are rhyme and meter. There are two grammatical
deviation processes that create rhyme which are the deviation of verb and the
deviation of noun. There are two sentences that have deviation of verb in two
songs. The songs are “I’m a Mess and “The Way I Are”. Besides, there is one
sentence with deviation of noun in “Me, Myself and I”.
The second phonological effect is meter or the metrical pattern. There is
only one grammatical deviation process which is omission that creates the right
meter. That omission that creates meter occurs in three songs of Bebe Rexha. The
first song is “I Got You”, the second is “I’m a Mess” and the third is “Me, Myself
and I”.
As the final point, the researcher finds the type of grammatical deviation
and the phonological effects which are rhyme and meter in five Bebe Rexha’s
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songs. The grammatical deviations made by Bebe Rexha in her songs are intended
to make her songs to be more beautiful and more appealing to hear by making the
lyrics rhymed each other and by creating the same metrical pattern. Besides, this
research gives a proof that stylistic approach can be used to analyze song since
song is similar to poetry.
In this part, the researcher suggests other researchers to conduct the
different analysis with the same object in order to improve the analysis using
stylistic approach. From the four levels of stylistics, other researchers can possibly
use the other levels in their research. Moreover, the researcher encourages other
researchers to analyze the object with theory of deviation except the grammatical
deviation. It can be lexical deviation, phonological deviation, graphological
deviation, semantic deviation, dialectical deviation, deviation of register and
deviation of historical period. Since every researcher has the different way to
analyze, the discussion in their researches would be more interesting.
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APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs
Ommision of Subject
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
Made it right here 'cause I'm sick
with it Cudi
I made it right here
because I’m sick with it
Cudi
Get what I want when I want I get what I want when I
want
Understand what I'm speaking on I understand what I’m
speaking on
Got me for life I got me for life
Keeps me alive It keeps me alive
Say "fuck y'all" to all of y'all faces I say “fuck y’all” to all of
y’all faces
Celebrate nightly and everyone
rages
I celebrate it nightly and
everyone rages
Swimming in liquor I am swimming in liquor
Don't want to work for it They don’t want to work
for it
Pray the lord, my soul to take I pray to the Lord, my soul
to take
Know I'm great I know I’m great
Having dreams that I'm folding cake I am having dreams that I
am folding a cake
“The Way I
Are”
Gonna live it up I am going to live it up
Don't matter who you are I don’t matter who you are
Pop a couple xans with somebody I pop a couple xans with
somebody
Throw a bunch of bands arms get
tired
I throw a bunch of bands
arms get tired
Gotta use a bedroom for a closet I am going to use a
bedroom for a closet
Got a whole bedroom I got a whole bedroom
Kiss both boobs right before I sign
'em
I kiss both boobs right
before I sign them
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Omission of Modal Auxiliary
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“The Way I
Are”
Roll it up ‘cause we so ill You roll it up because
we are so ill
“Me, Myself
and I”
A Stella Maxwell right beside of me A Stella Maxwell is
right beside me
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
Can't dance but kinda grind 'em I cannot dance but I kind
of grind them
Roll it up 'cause we so ill We roll it up because we
are so ill
“I Got You” Lookin' like you need it You are looking like you
need it
Tell you no lies I tell you no lies
Always over thinkin' I am always over thinking
Don't have to be so guarded We don’t have to be so
guarded
Tell a lie for you I would tell a lie for you
Take a shot for you I would take a shot for
you
“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere fast We do not need to go
anywhere fast
See where this thing goes We will see where this
things goes
“I’m a Mess” Have a drink on me cheers to the
failing
They have a drink on me
cheers to the failing
Ommision of Article
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
And as far as I can see I just need
privacy
And as far as I can see I
just need a privacy
I just need space I just need a space
I'm folding cake I’m folding a cake
It's no debate It is not a debate
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Omission of Linking Verb
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“The Way I
Are”
I be right behind her spinal I will be right before
her spinal
Omission of Preposition
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
Pray the Lord, my soul to take
I pray to the Lord, my
soul to take
Omission of Object
Song Grammatical Deviation Graamatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
Celebrate nightly and everyone rages.
I celebrate it nightly
and everyone rages
Deviation of Verb
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“I’m a Mess” Pretty sure he don’t wanna be my
baby
Pretty sure he does not
want to be my baby
He don’t love me
He does not love me
That’s what my therapist say That is what my
therapist says
“The Way I
Are”
Love me the way I are You love me the way I
am
Every time she dance it’s exotic Every time she dances
it is exotic
Double Negation
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Meant to
be”
No need to go nowhere fast You do not need to go
anywhere fast
“I’m a Mess” I don’t trust no one around us I do not trust anyone
around us
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Deviation of Noun
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
Plus a whole lot of tree Plus a whole lot of
trees
Deviation of Article
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“The Way I
Are”
We can turn this dance floor to a
island
We can turn this dance
floor to an island
Deviation of Preposition
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
A Stella Maxwell right beside of me
A Stella Maxwell is
right beside me
Overgeneralization
Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical
“Me, Myself
and I”
It’s no debate
It’s not a debate
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Appendix 2: Phonological Effects In Bebe Rexha’s Songs
No Lyrics Grammatical
Deviation
Processes
Phonological Effects
Rhyme Meter
1. No need to go nowhere
fast
Omission of
subject
2. See where this thing goes Omission of
subject
3. Have a drink on me cheers
to the failing
Omission of
subject
V
4. Gonna live it up Omission of
subject
5. Don't matter who you are Omission of
subject
6. Pop a couple xans with
somebody
Omission of
subject
7. Throw a bunch of bands
arms get tired
Omission of
subject
8. Gotta use a bedroom for a
closet
Omission of
subject
9. Got a whole bedroom on
the private
Omission of
subject
10. Kiss both boobs right
before I sign 'em
Omission of
subject
11. Can't dance but kinda
grind 'em
Omission of
subject
12. Roll it up 'cause we so ill Omission of
subject
13. Made it right here 'cause
I'm sick with it Cudi
Omission of
subject
14. get what I want when I
want
Omission of
subject
15. Understand what I'm
speaking
Omission of
subject
16. Got me for life Omission of
subject
17. Keeps me alive Omission of
subject
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Lyrics Grammatical
Deviation
processes
Phonological Effects
Rhyme Meter
18. Say "fuck y'all" to all of
y'all faces
Omission of
subject
19. Celebrate nightly and
everyone rages
Omission of
subject
20. Swimming in liquor my
liver is muddy
Omission of
subject
21. don't want to work for it Omission of
subject
22. Pray the lord, my soul to
take
Omission of
subject
23. Know I'm great but I’m
broke as hell
Omission of
subject
V
24. Having dreams that I'm
folding cake
Omission of
subject
25. Lookin' like you need it Omission of
subject
V
26. Tell you no lies Omission of
subject
V
27. Always over thinkin' Omission of
subject
V
28. Don't have to be so
guarded
Omission of
subject
29. Tell a lie for you Omission of
subject
30. Take a shot for you Omission of
subject
31. And as far as I can see I
just need privacy
Omission of article
32. I just need space to do me Omission of article
33. Having dreams that I'm
folding cake
Omission of article
34. it's no debate Omission of article
35. Roll it up ‘cause we so ill Omission of
linking verb
36 A Stella Maxwell right
beside of me
Omission of
linking verb
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Lyrics Grammatical
Deviation
processes
Phonological Effects
Rhyme Meter
37. I be right behind her spinal Omission of modal
auxiliary
38. Celebrate nightly and
everyne rages
Omission of object
39. Ray the lord my soul to
take
Omission of
preposition
40. Pretty sure he don’t wanna
be my baby
Deviation of verb
41. He don’t love me Deviation of verb
42. That’s what my therapist
say
Deviation of verb V
43. Love me the way I are Deviation of verb V
44. Every time she dance it’s
exotic
Deviation of verb
45. No need to go nowhere
fast
Double negation
46. I don’t trust no one around
us
Double negation
47. A Stella Maxwell right
beside of me
Deviation of
preposition
48. Plus a whole lot of tree Deviation of noun V
49. We can turn this dance
floor to a island
Deviation of
article
50. it's no debate Overgeneralization
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Appendix 3: Lyrics of “Me, Myself and I”
[Chorus]
Oh, it's just me, myself and I
Solo ride until I die
'Cause I got me for life
Oh I don't need a hand to hold
Even when the night is cold
I got that fire in my soul
[Verse 1]
And as far as I can see
I just need privacy
Plus a whole lot of tree,
fuck all this modesty
I just need space to do me get a world that they're tryna see
A Stella Maxwell right beside of me
A Ferrari I'm buyin' three
A closet of Saint Laurent,
get what I want when I want
'Cause this hunger is driving me, yeah
I just need to be alone,
I just need to be at home
Understand what I'm speaking on
if time is money I need a loan
But regardless I'll always keep keepin' on
Fuck fake friends,
we don't take L's we just make M's
While y'all follow, we just make trends
I'm right back to work when that break ends
[Chorus]
Oh, it's just me, myself and I
Solo ride until I die
'Cause I got me for life
(Got me for life, yeah)
Oh I don't need a hand to hold
Even when the night is cold
I got that fire in my soul
[Post-Chorus]
I don't need anything to get me through the night
Except the beat that's in my heart
Yeah, it's keeping me alive
(Keeps me alive)
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I don't need anything to make me satisfied (You know)
'Cause the music fills me good
and it gets me every time
[Verse 2]
Yeah, and I don't like talking to strangers
So get the fuck off me I'm anxious
I'm tryna be cool but I may just go ape shit
Say "fuck y'all" to all of y'all faces
It changes though now that I'm famous
Everyone knows how this lifestyle is dangerous
But I love it the rush is amazing
Celebrate nightly and everyone rages
I found how to cope with my anger
I'm swimming in money
Swimming in liquor my liver is muddy
But it's all good I'm still sippin' this bubbly
This shit is lovely, this shit ain't random, I didn't get lucky
Made it right here 'cause I'm sick with it Cudi
They all take the money for granted
But don't want to work for it
tell me now, isn't it funny? Nah
[Bridge]
Like ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba-da-ba (Yee!)
Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba
Ba-ba-ba-da-ba
'Cause the music fills me good
and it gets me every time
[Verse 3]
Yeah, lonely nights I laid awake
Pray the Lord, my soul to take
My heart's become too cold to break
Know I'm great but I'm broke as hell
Having dreams that I'm folding cake
All my life I've been told to wait
But I'mma get it now, yeah it's no debate
Yeah
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Appendix 4: Lyrics of “Meant to be”
[Verse 1]
Baby, lay on back and relax,
kick your pretty feet up on my dash
No need to go nowhere fast
let's enjoy right here where we at
[Pre-Chorus1]
Who knows where this road is supposed to lead
We got nothing but time
As long as you're right here next to me,
everything's gonna be alright
[Chorus]
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
So, won't you ride with me, ride with me?
See where this thing goes
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, if it's meant to be
[Verse 2]
I don't mean to be so uptight,
but my heart's been hurt a couple times
By a couple guys that didn't treat me right
I ain't gon' lie, ain't gonna lie
'Cause I'm tired of the fake love,
show me what you're made of
Boy, make me believe
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But hold up, girl, don't you know you're beautiful?
And it's easy to see
[Chorus]
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
So, won't you ride with me, ride with me?
See where this thing goes
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, if it's meant to be
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So, c'mon ride with me, ride with me
See where this thing goes
So, c'mon ride with me, ride with me
Baby, if it's meant to be
[Bridge]
Maybe we do
Maybe we don't
Maybe we will
Maybe we won't
[Chorus]
But if it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be (c'mon)
Baby, just let it be (let's go)
So, won't you ride with me, ride with me?
See where this thing goes
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, if it's meant to be
[Outro]
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, if it's meant to be
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, if it's meant to be
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Appendix 5: Lyrics of “I’m a Mess”
[Verse 1]
Everything's been so messed up here lately
Pretty sure he don't wanna be my baby
Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me
He don't love me, he don't love me
But that's okay
'Cause I love me, yeah, I love me
Yeah, I love me
Yeah, I love myself anyway
Hey
[Pre-Chorus]
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be okay
It's gonna be a good, good, life
That's what my therapist say
Everything's gonna be alright
Everything's gonna be just fine
It's gonna be a good, good life
[Chorus]
I'm a mess, I'm a loser
I'm a hater, I'm a user
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed
I don't trust no one around us
I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new
[Verse 2]
Nobody shows up unless I'm paying
Have a drink on me cheers to the failing
Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me
He don't love me, he don't love me
But that's okay
'Cause I love me, yeah, I love me
Yeah, I love me
Yeah, I love myself anyway
Hey
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Appendix 6: Lyrics of “The Way I Are”
[Intro]
I'm sorry, I'm not the most pretty
I'll never ever sing like Whitney
Ooh, but I still wanna dance with somebody
(Tunechi)
[Verse 1]
So lets let all hearts bleed, 'til they turn to rust
Gonna live it up, 'cause it's dangerous
No, I don't wanna play the part (Amen)
I just wanna dance with somebody (Amen)
I just wanna dance with somebody (yeah)
[Chorus]
I just wanna dance with somebody
I just wanna dance with somebody
It could be anybody,
tell me, are you that somebody?
Don't matter who you are,
just love me the way I are
I just wanna dance with somebody
I just wanna dance with somebody
[Verse 2]
I just wanna dance with somebody
But I could never ever dance like Bobby
You can dance, I'mma watch your body
I just wanna stand right behind it
I just want a chance with somebody
Pop a couple xans with somebody
Every time she dance it's exotic
Throw a bunch of bands arms get tired
I'm the God I just want a goddess
Gotta use a bedroom for a closet
Got a whole bedroom, on the private
I know her body inside, out science
Kiss both boobs right before I sign 'em
Can't dance but kinda grind 'em
Yeah, I be right behind her, spinal
We can turn this dance floor to a island
[Chorus]
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I just wanna dance with somebody (Mula)
I just wanna dance with somebody
It could be anybody,
tell me, are you that somebody?
(Tunechi)
Don't matter who you are,
just love me the way I are
I just wanna dance with somebody
I just wanna dance with somebody
[Bridge]
Bloody noses, speeding cars
Lethal doses, desperate hearts
Roll it up 'cause we so ill
Heaven knows we love the thrill
No, I don't wanna play the part
I jupt wanna dance with somebody
I just wanna dance with somebody
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Appendix 7: Lyrics of “I Got You”
[Verse 1]
I can see you hurting
I've been through the same thing
Baby, don't you worry, I got you
I just wanna know you
Tell me all your secrets
Lookin' like you need it
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause I got you, you, oh
You, I got you, I got you
'Cause I got you, you, oh
You, I got you, I got you
[Chorus]
We can get high, oh, nah-nah-nah
We can get low, oh, nah-nah-nah
Let me be your friend
Baby, let me in
Tell you no lies, oh, nah-nah-nah
We can get lost, oh, nah-nah-nah
Take it all off, oh, nah-nah-nah
Let me be your friend
Baby, let me in
Give it to me all, oh, nah-nah-nah
[Verse 2]
Tell me what you're thinkin'
Always over thinkin'
I just wanna love you, I got you
Don't have to be so guarded
Let's finish what we started
It's all I ever wanted
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause I got you, you, oh
You, I got you, I got you
[Chorus]
We can get high, oh, nah-nah-nah
We can get low, oh, nah-nah-nah
Let me be your friend
Baby, let me in
Tell you no lies, oh, nah-nah-nah
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We can get lost, oh, nah-nah-nah
Take it all off, oh, nah-nah-nah
Let me be your friend
Baby, let me in
Give it to me all, oh, nah-nah-nah
[Post-Chorus]
'Cause I got you, you, oh
You, I got you, I got you
[Bridge]
I'd do the time for you
Tell a lie for you
Yeah, baby, that's what I do
I'd walk the line for you
Take a shot for you
Yeah, baby, that's what I do
'Cause I got you, it's true
I'd die for you, I'd die for you
I got you
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