Lexical Cohesion Found in The Lyrics of Children’ Songs: A Case Study of Children’ Songs in Cocomelon Youtube Channel

Abstract

Song lyrics can be an object in analyzing a discourse, especially musical discourse. Realized it or not, some songs usually have they own pattern according to their genre or the purpose of making those songs. That’s why lyrics in song can be an object to analyze. This research examines lexical cohesive devices found in the lyrics of children’ songs gained from CoComelon YouTube channel. A descriptive qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The framework proposed by Halliday and Hasan (1994) was used to analyze the data. The results reveal that among 6 lexical cohesion devices found in the data, the most frequent lexical cohesion devices is repetition with the total of 193 data (80.08%), then followed by hyponymy with 21 data (8.71%), meronymy with 17 data (7.05%), antonymy with 6 data (2.50%), and the last are synonymy and collocation both with 2 data (0.83%). From the results, it can be concluded that most of the whole lyrics in children songs tend to repeat some words and sentences throughout the whole song. Also, they tend to use words that are in the same type or using words that are related to each other as the main topic or story builder of the song. Further, the use of these cohesive devices in children songs is to make the song easier for children to understand, remember and follow.