Figurative language and idiom expression in Justin Bieber’s selected song lyric

• Ira Fitrianti
• 2021

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Music is an effective way to deliver our feeling because it has beautiful words which we call as figurative language and the idiom. This case made the author attracted to analyze the figurative language and idiom in song lyrics. The title of this research is “The Usage of Figurative Language and Idiom Found in Selected song lyrics in Justin Bieber’s Justice Album”. The purposes of the study are (1) to identify the type of figurative language and the type of idiomatic expression, and (2) to identify the dominant type of figurative language and idiomatic expression in five selected songs of Justin Bieber in his new Album that’s called Justice, which are: “Off My Face”, “2 Much”, “As I Am”, “Die For You” and “Love You Different. Hence, a descriptive qualitative method is used in writing this paper.  In collecting the data, the writer listened to the songs and read the lyrics as many as possible until the data are collected. In result, 6 types of figurative language are found:1. Personification, 2.Irony, 3. Metonymy, 4. Simile, 5.Hyperbole, and 6. Metaphor, with 9 data of hyperbole as the dominant type. Beside, 3 types of idiom are also found in this paper which are three of (1) lexemic idiom which are: a. verbal idiom, b. noun idiom, and c. adverbial idiom, (2) frozen idiom, and (3) phraseological idiom, with 8 data of verbal idiom as the dominant.

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