Idiomatic Expressions in Imagine Dragons Song Lyrics on Album "Evolve" and Its Contribution to Lexical Teaching
Keywords:
idiomatic expressions, imagine dragons song lyrics, album “evolve”, lexical teachingAbstract
Idioms (idiomatic expressions) is a type of word which has different meaning from the meaning of the words in the sentence. The aim of this research is to know what the meaning of idioms in Imagine Dragons song lyrics on album “Evolve”is, what the most dominant type of idioms found in Imagine Dragons song lyrics on album “Evolve”is, and the contribution of this research in the lexical teaching. This research uses Adam Makkai concept which classified as phrasal verb idioms, tournure idioms, irreversible binomial idioms, phrasal compound idioms, incorporating verbs idioms, and pseudo idioms. It uses qualitative method. In this research can be known the information of idioms which be needed by reading the song lyrics and comprehend the meaning of the idioms. It has found many idioms in the lyrics of this song along with their explanations in the table. The researchers have found that there are 109 idioms in this song, the most number of idioms is on the song whatever it takes with 26 idioms and the least number of idioms is Dancing in the Dark Song Lyric with 9 idioms. In this album, the most dominant type of idioms is Tournure that have 56 idioms which consist 51% percentage. The contribution of idiomatic expressions to lexical teaching are as references for additional idiom sentences in lexical studies learning and to emphasize the college student to learn lexical studies with song lyric as learning media in the material “Idiom” in Lexical Studies 2.
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