Abstract
This paper sheds light on investigating the lexical cohesion on an Indonesian singer song entitled Coke Bottle by Agnez Mo. Lexical cohesion constitutes linguistic devices that help to create cohesiveness of the text. Lexical cohesion occurs when two words or more in a text are semantically related somehow – in other words, they are related in terms of their meaning. This study's design was a descriptive qualitative that attempted to elaborate the discourse analysis about lexical cohesion in Coke Bottle song by Agnez Mo. Some steps were conducted to collect the data, firstly, the lyrics that become the documentation were collected by the researcher from lyrics.com, secondly the researcher read the lyrics to understand the text. Thirdly, marking some words included as lexical cohesions in which they will be the real data of this study. The findings revealed that reiteration and collocation are found in the song, but the antonym that is part of reiteration is absent. Above all, repetition is the most commonly used in this song, especially the word I. This seems to indicate that the songwriter tried to make the song's lyrics match the music's beat, so the song became easy listening, and the listeners can enjoy the music.
Highlights
Singing and listening song are the part of Indonesia culture
The repetition in the song is very common occurred in the song lyrics, it is proven by Pratiwi et al (2019) in their research that repetition is the highest number from all lexical cohesion devices, and they stated that the many repetitions occurred in the song because the songwriter wants to create a good rhythm
Based on the results above, it can be concluded that repetition is the most common used in Coke Bottle songs
Summary
Singing and listening song are the part of Indonesia culture. These cultures which are inherent with Indonesian people that stretches from Sabang to Merauke. Studies about song’s lyrics viewed from discourse analysis, especially the lexical cohesion have basically been carried out by many researchers before, both in Indonesian and foreign language. In terms of the aspect of discourse, song lyrics have different patterns and structures from one song to another. Lexical cohesion is a form of interaction of the deep structures of language in building meaningful relationships between the morphological units of language in a text. The morphological units referred to here are, in the form of words, including content words and function words in building meaningfulness of discourse (Paltridge, 2012)
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