Dwiadha Jinengga Dikara , 2201415174 (2020) THE IDEOLOGY NEGOTIATED IN DREAM THEATER’S ALBUM “BLACK CLOUDS AND SILVER LININGS”: A Text Analysis Utilizing Appraisal System. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study aimed to describe the utilization of Appraisal system to uncover the ideology in Dream Theater’s album “Black Clouds and Silver Linings” especially on A Nightmare to Remember, The Best of Times, and Wither song lyrics. The writer used Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal system to analyze the song lyrics. This study used a qualitative approach to describe the outcome of Appraisal analysis and the ideology of the song in the Dream Theater’s song lyric in the Black Clouds and Silver Linings album. The data were collected by segmenting lyric into word, phrase, or clause. Afterwards, the writer analyzed and classified the Appraisal instrument found in the song lyric based on Martin and White (2005) classification. Next, the data were counted in order to find the dominant Appraisal instrument and correlate it with rock music ideology. The least is the writer reported the findings of this final project. There are 286 data analyzed are found in Dream Theater song lyrics. Three sub domain of Appraisal from Martin and White’s (2005) is used in the analysis. The findings of the analysis as follows: Appraisal instrument found in the song lyric are: attitude with frequency of 92 data (affect 20,82%; judgment 3,72%; appreciation 9,67%; inscribed 21,56%; invoked 12,64%; positive 16,36%; negative 17,84%) engagement with frequency of 145 data (mono-glossic 39,41%; heteroglossic 14,50%), graduation with frequency of 32 data (force 11,52%;focus 0,37%). Based on the findings above, the Appraisal analysis is dominated by attitude. According to the analysis of the ideology of each song, the lyric is used as feature information of the topic discussed. Most of the lyrics are packed up by the story line form to persuade and make the reader feel the atmosphere and situation. Hyperbole, repetition, concretization also added in the lyric to emphasize the meaning. It is seen that discursive structure and strategies is used to express ideological beliefs of personal opinions derived from the songwriters.

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