GRAMMATICAL DEVIATION AND ITS PHONOLOGICAL EFFECTS IN BEBE …

GRAMMATICAL DEVIATION AND ITS PHONOLOGICAL

EFFECTS IN BEBE REXHA’S SONG LYRICS

AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra

in English Letters

By

VATMA ANGGRAINI PUTRI

Student Number: 154214128

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

FACULTY OF LETTERS

UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA

YOGYAKARTA

2019

PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI

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GRAMMATICAL DEVIATION AND ITS PHONOLOGICAL

EFFECTS IN BEBE REXHA’S SONG LYRICS

TITLE PAGE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra

in English Letters

By

VATMA ANGGRAINI PUTRI

Student Number: 154214128

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS

FACULTY OF LETTERS

UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA

YOGYAKARTA

2019






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SO VERILY, WITH THE HARDSHIP THERE IS RELIEF

WITH THE HARDSHIP THERE IS RELIEF

— QS. 94:5-6

MOTTO PAGE


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This thesis is dedicated to

my parents,

Yutrianti and Suratman

and also my sister,

Berlian Rahmada Romadhona

DEDICATION PAGE


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First of all I would like to send my deepest gratitude to my Allah SWT,

who always gives me His blessing and love as well as gives me everything I need

in my life especially during the process of writing this thesis. I thank Him, for He

has sent me a lot of good people that make my life full of happiness. I could never

ask for more.

I would like to give my sincere thanks to my beloved thesis advisor

Arina Isti’anah, S.Pd., M.Hum., who guided me to write my thesis. I thank her

for the help given to me so I could pass through all the hard days full of

confusions in writing my thesis. I thank my co-advisor Fransisca Kristanti

S.Pd., M.Hum. who gave me her best to help me finishing my thesis. I also thank

my academic advisors F.X. Risang Baskara, S.S., M.Hum. and Dr. Bernadine Ria

Lestari, M.Sc., for the help and support given to me in these 8 semesters.

I would like to thank my parents and my little sister who always give me

their endless love and support. I thank my college best friends Putri, Widi, Mitha,

Ayu and Mbak Uuz, The Micins in Blue Group. Without them, I would probably

die in the first semester. I also thank my other best friends in Zimbabwe, Mantap

Anjeng, Geng Rempong and BBS groups for the huge support in finishing my

thesis. Finally, I want to thank all of my friends in English Letters Department

batch 2015 and my other friends I cannot mention here for their support and help.

Vatma Anggraini Putri


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE ..................................................................................................... ii

APPROVAL PAGE .......................................................................................... iii

ACCEPTANCE PAGE ..................................................................................... iv

STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................. v

LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH .. vi

MOTTO PAGE ................................................................................................ vii

DEDICATION PAGE ..................................................................................... viii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................. ix

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................... x

LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................... xii

ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... xiii

ABSTRAK ........................................................................................................ xiv

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 15

A. Background of the Study ................................................................................... 15

B. Problem Formulation ..........................................................................................4

C. Objectives of the Study .......................................................................................4

D. Definition of Term ..............................................................................................4

CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE................................................... 6

A. Review of Related Studies ..................................................................................6

B. Review of Related Theories .............................................................................. 10

1. Stylistics.................................................................................................... 10

2. Deviation .................................................................................................. 11

3. Grammatical Deviation .............................................................................. 13

4. Phonology ................................................................................................. 18

5. Song .......................................................................................................... 22

C. Theoretical Framework ..................................................................................... 23

CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ................................................................ 24

A. Object of the Study ........................................................................................... 24

B. Approach of the Study ...................................................................................... 25

C. Method of the Study............................................................................................ 25

1. Data Collection .......................................................................................... 25


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2. Data Analysis ............................................................................................. 26

CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS ...................... 27

A. Types of Grammatical Deviation Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics .............. 27

1. Omission ................................................................................................... 29

2. Deviation of Verb ...................................................................................... 37

3. Double Negation ....................................................................................... 39

4. Deviation of Noun ..................................................................................... 41

5. Deviation of Article ................................................................................... 41

7. Overgeneralization .................................................................................... 43

B. Phonological Effects of Rhyme and Meter as the Result of Grammatical

Deviation in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics ..................................................................... 43

1. Rhyme....................................................................................................... 44

2. Meter ........................................................................................................ 48

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ....................................................................... 51

REFERENCES ................................................................................................ 54

APPENDICES .................................................................................................. 56

Appendix 1 ............................................................................................................... 56

Appendix 2 ............................................................................................................... 60

Appendix 3 ............................................................................................................... 63

Appendix 4 ............................................................................................................... 65

Appendix 5 ............................................................................................................... 67

Appendix 6 ............................................................................................................... 68

Appendix 7 ............................................................................................................... 70


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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1. The Summary of Grammatical Deviations

Occur in Bebe Rexha’s songs..................................................................28

Table 2. Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs ……................................ 30

Table 3. Omission of Article in Bebe Rexha’s Songs …….................................. 33

Table 4. Omission of Linking Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs...……..................... 34

Table 5. Deviation of Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs..…………………................38

Table 6. Double Negation in Bebe Rexha’s Songs..………………………......... 40

Table 7. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb

in Bebe Rexha’s “I’m a Mess”....……………………………................ 45

Table 8. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb

in Bebe Rexha’s “The Way I Are”....……………………….................. 46

Table 9. Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Noun........................................................47


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ABSTRACT

Putri, Vatma Anggraini. (2018). Grammatical Deviation and Its Phonological

Effects Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics. Yogyakarta: Department of

English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma.

Language is a tool that helps people to express feeling, idea, and

information. In using a language, people have their own way to deliver the

information to other people. In other words, everyone has his or her own style in

using a language, whether in written or in spoken language. Besides, people use

language for entertainment purposes as well, for example in literary works. One of

the literary works is poem. In writing song lyrics, a song writer also has his or her

own style. It is common for the song writers to deviate the rules of a language

such as grammar. This also occurs in the songs of Bebe Rexha, an American

singer and song writer. Bebe Rexha makes grammatical deviation in her songs in

order to make certain phonological effects. As the result, the songs become more

beautiful and appealing.

This study focuses on the grammatical deviation in five songs of Bebe

Rexha. Those songs are “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “The

Way I Are” and “I’m a Mess”. The aim of this study is to find (1) the types of

grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs and (2) the phonological effects as

the result of the grammatical deviation occuring in the songs.

The approach used to analyze the data of the study is stylistics. Stylistics is

one of the linguistic branches that studies about the style in a language and the

description of the purpose and the effects as the result. This makes stylistics

become the appropriate approach in analyzing the data. In addition, the data is

taken by using the purposive sampling strategy.

Based on the analysis conducted by the researcher, there is only one type

of grammatical deviation which is syntactical deviation. There are seven

grammatical deviation processes in five songs of Bebe Rexha. Those are

omission, deviation of verb, double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of

article, deviation of preposition and overgeneralization. There are two

phonological effects from the grammatical deviations, those are rhyme and meter.

In rhyme, the grammatical deviation was applied in order to make the last syllable

in a line rhymes with the previous or the next line. In meter, the grammatical

deviation was applied to make the right metrical pattern in the song. To conclude,

there is only syntactical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs after analyzing the songs

using stylistics approach. The deviation create the phonological effects which are

rhyme and meter.

Keywords: stylistics, song, grammatical deviation, phonology


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ABSTRAK

Putri, Vatma Anggraini. (2018). Grammatical Deviation and Its Phonological

Effects In Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics. Yogyakarta: Program Studi Sastra Inggris,

Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Sanata Dharma.

Bahasa adalah alat yang membantu manusia dalam mengekspresikan

perasaan, pemikiran, dan informasi. Dalam menggunakan bahasa, manusia

memiliki cara mereka sendiri untuk menyampaikan informasi kepada orang lain

untuk berkomunikasi. Dengan kata lain, setiap orang memiliki gaya mereka

sendiri dalam menggunakan bahasa, baik tertulis maupun lisan. Selain itu,

manusia juga menggunakan bahasa di dalam dunia hiburan seperti dalam karya-

karya sastra. Salah satu karya sastra adalah puisi. Dalam menulis lagu, seorang

pencipta lagu juga memiliki gaya tersendiri. Dalam membuat lagu, seorang

pencipta lagu terkadang melakukan penyimpangan di tata bahasa dan ini adalah

sesuatu yang biasa terjadi. Hal ini juga terjadi dalam lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha,

seorang penyanyi dan pencipta lagu dari Amerika. Bebe Rexha membuat

penyimpangan dalam tata bahasa di dalam lagunya untuk menghasilkan efek-efek

fonologi tertentu. Hasilnya adalah lagu-lagunya menjadi lebih indah dan menarik.

Penelitian ini terfokus pada penyimpangan tata bahasa dalam lima lagu

Bebe Rexha yang berjudul “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “The

Way I Are” and “I’m a Mess”. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk

menemukan (1) tipe-tipe penyimpangan tata bahasa di lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha dan

(2) efek-efek fonologi sebagai hasil dari penyimpangan tata bahasa tersebut.

Pendekatan stilistika adalah pendekatan yang digunakan untuk

menganalisis data di penelitian ini. Stilistika adalah salah satu cabang ilmu

linguistik yang mengkaji gaya dalam sebuah bahasa dan menjabarkan mengenai

tujuan dan efek yang ditimbulkan. Hal ini membuat stilistika menjadi pendekatan

yang tepat dalam menganalisis data. Selain itu, data tersebut diambil

menggunakan teknik sampel bertujuan.

Berdasarkan analisis, hanya ada satu tipe penyimpangan tata bahasa di

lima lagu-lagu Bebe Rexha yaitu penyimpangan sintaksis. Terdapat 7 proses

penyimpangan tata bahasa yang ditemukan yaitu omission, deviation of verb,

double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article, deviation of preposition

and overgeneralization. Selain itu ada dua efek fonologi dari penyimpangan tata

bahasa tersebut: rima dan meter. Penyimpangan tata bahasa diterapkan di dalam

lagu untuk membuat suku kata terakhir di sebuah baris berima sama dengan baris

sebelum atau setelahnya dan untuk membuat pola meter yang sama. Kesimpulan

yang dapat diambil yaitu hanya ada penyimpangan sintaks di dalam lagu-lagu

Bebe Rexha setelah dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan stilistika. Penyimpangan-

penyimpangan tersebut membuat efek-efek dalam fonologi yaitu rima dan meter.

Kata kunci: stilistika, lagu, penyimpangan tata bahasa, fonologi


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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

A. Background of the Study

Language is a tool that people use to communicate with others. Language

helps people to transfer the idea in their mind into words. They can produce the

words through the organ of speech in order to deliver the idea to the people they

are talking to. By knowing a language, someone can speak and he or she is able to

be understood by others who know that language (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams,

2011, p. 4). This means that a language makes people connected from one another

and becomes a tool to maintain their relationship.

Language is also a science that is studied by the scientists. The study of

language is called linguistics. Linguistics is defined as the scientific study of

language and its structures rather than the learning of individual languages (Barry,

2009, p. 196). In linguistics there are some components that are observed by the

linguists such as phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Those

components are treated in different ways by the linguists even though they are

actually connected.

In linguistics, the style also becomes the important thing to study. “Style

is the way in which a language is used in a given context by a given person for a

given purpose” (Leech & Short, 1994, p. 10). Style is used in the spoken and

written language. In written language, style is applied in non-literary works and

also in literary works. However, “style is particularly associated with written


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literary text” (Leech & Short, 1994, p. 11). The branch of linguistics that

discusses the style in a language is called stylistics.

Stylistics is defined as the study of style (Leech & Short, 2007, p. 11).

“Stylistics is a critical approach which uses the methods and findings of the

science of linguistics in the analysis of literary text” (Barry, 2009, p. 196). The

literary text can be a novel, a prose, a short story, or a poetry. There are rhyme and

meter which commonly applied in a poetry. This is supported by Obermeier et al

(2013) that “metrical patterning and rhyme are frequently employed in poetry” (p.

1). A song lyrics is also possible to be analyzed using the theory of stylistics

because the lyric and poetry have the same characteristic such as rhyme

(Vosahlik, 2016, p. 13). Besides the rhyme, the meter is also one of the

characteristics that a lyric and a poetry have. Both rhyme and meter are commonly

applied in a poetry and also in a lyric. This indicates that a lyric and a poetry can

be treated the same way in the analysis of stylistics.

In some song lyrics, the song writer makes the lyrics without following

the rules of the language. In other words, the writer of the song violates the

grammar of a language that is used in writing the song. The grammatical error that

the song writers make is called grammatical deviation. Grammatical deviation is

“when a sentence or sentences break the rules of grammar” (Budiharto, 2018, p.

86).

The song writer does not make the grammatical errors without purposes.

The song writer usually violates the language rules in order to make the song

becomes more appealing. The example is in the lyric of song entitled “Swalla”


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sung by Jason DeRulo featuring Nicky Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign. There are lines

in the lyric which are He copping that Valentino ain’t telling me no and the next

line is I’m that bitch and he know. In the second line it should be I’m that bitch

and he knows since the third singular is always followed by verb with suffix {–s}.

However, the songwriter chose to use the word know in order to make the same

rhyme with the previous line which ends with the word no. This makes the lines

rhyme each other and make the song more appealing.

In this study, Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics are analyzed since there are some

predicted deviations in the lyrics. Stylistics becomes the approach that is used in

order to answer the problem formulation in this study. Besides, the phonological

effects from the grammatical deviation are discussed as well. The phonological

effects are related to the rhyme and meter.

Bebe Rexha is an American singer who is also a songwriter. Her music

genre is mostly pop and RnB. Rexha does not write songs for herself. She writes

some songs which are sung by other musicians such as Selena Gomez, Eminem,

Iggy Azalea and other singers. However, in this study the researcher chooses five

songs of Bebe Rexha, “I Got You”, “Meant to be”, “Me, Myself and I”, “The Way

I Are”, and “I’m a Mess”. This is because the songs are listed in Hot 100 songs in

the Billboard’s chart history according to www.billboard.com. This means her

songs are listened by many people. Besides, as it is stated in

www.aceshowbiz.com, an online magazine, she got 17 nominations and 5 awards

for her work as a singer and a songwriter.


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B. Problem Formulation

This study discusses some problems in order to analyze the grammatical

deviation in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics. The problems are:

1. What types of grammatical deviation are found in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics?

2. How does the grammatical deviation create phonological effects of rhyme and

meter in the song lyrics?

C. Objectives of the Study

There are two objectives of the study that are going to be analyzed based

on the problem formulation above. The first objective is to find out the types of

grammatical deviations that are found in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics. The second

objective is to describe the phonological effects of rhyme and meter that occur in

several lines in Bebe Rexha’s song lyrics influenced by the grammatical

deviation. The phonological effects of rhyme and meter are explained more in this

study. The lines that are not deviated grammatically are not discussed in this

study.

D. Definition of Term

There are some terms that will be repeated several times. Those terms

will be used by the researcher in the analysis to provide answers to the problem.

Those terms are grammatical deviation and phonological effect.


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Grammar is something important to know if someone wants to be able

to speak in a language. Grammar is defined as “the knowledge that the speakers

have about the units and rules of their language” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams,

2011, p. 13). The example is the rules that make the sounds are combined and

becomes words, the words are combined and becomes phrases then sentences.

Grammatical means that “a sentence conforms to the rules of mental

grammar” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 13). Meanwhile, grammatical

deviation means that a sentence is not following the rules and violates the

grammar of a language that is used.

Phonology is the study of how speech sounds form pattern (Fromkin,

Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 227). In phonology, it discusses the sounds in a

language which differ from one to another language. Phonological effects mean

the results of the phonological phenomena in sentences or in texts. In this study,

the phonological effects are found due to the grammatical deviation in the Bebe

Rexha’s song lyrics.


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CHAPTER II

REVIEW OF LITERATURE

This chapter is divided into three parts. The first part reviews related

studies. In this part the researcher discusses similar studies that other researchers

have done. The second is review of related theories. In this part, the theories that

are going to be used to discuss the study are presented. The third is theoretical

framework. In the last part, the researcher explains how the theories and the

reviews are used to solve the problems in this study.

A. Review of Related Studies

The first similar study is “Grammatical Errors and Their Effects in Rich

Brian’s Songs” written by Petra (2018). The object of the study focuses on the

song lyrics by Rich Brian. He chooses three songs that are written by Rich Brian,

those are “Dat $tick”, “Glow Like That”, and “Who That Be”.

The aims of the study are to find the grammatical deviations in Rich

Brian’s songs and to find the effects of the grammatical deviations in the songs. In

his study, Petra (2018) analyzes the sentences, phrases, and words in Rich Brian’s

“Dat $tick”, “Glow Like That”, and “Who That Be” using the stylistics approach

on the grammatical and phonological level. In his study, Petra (2018) finds out

several grammatical errors which include the omission, double negative, error of

preposition, error of verb, error of pronoun, and overgeneralization. The effects of


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the grammatical errors in the songs are rhyme and meter in order to make some

desired effects towards the listener of the songs.

The difference between Petra’s (2018) study and this current study is that

the object of the study. Even though both studies use songs lyrics, the singers are

not the same. However, the approach is similar. This study will also use stylistics

as the approach to analyze the problems.

The second similar topic is Asmara’s (2018) study entitled Phonological

Features in Robert Frost’s “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” Poems. In

his study, he discusses the phonological features that are found in Robert Frost’s

poems. Those two poems are Frost’s works that are obtained in the New

Hampshire.

The purpose of the study in Asmara’s (2018) study is to discover the

phonological features in the poems that are used by Robert Frost in writing those

poems. Another purpose is to discover the style that is used by Robert frost in

making “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems. In his study, the

researcher analyzes every line in the “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay”

poems using the stylistics approach. The phonological level of stylistics is the

main approach in his study.

In his study, the researcher finds the types of rhyme, the end rhyme

pattern, meter, and repetition of sound which the poet used in both “Fire and Ice”

and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems. Another finding is the style that Robert Frost

used in writing the poems. He states that Robert Frost has a style called

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There are similarities and differences in this study and Asmara’s (2018)

study. The difference lies on the object of the study. In Asmara’s (2018) study, he

chooses “Fire and Ice” and “Nothing Gold Stay” poems written by Robert Frost as

the object while in this study the researcher chooses songs by Bebe Rexha.

However, the approach that is used by Asmara (2018) and the researcher of this

study is the same. Both researchers choose stylistic approach.

The third study is “Grammatical Deviation in President Jokowi’s Speech

to the APEC CEO Summit” written by Budiharto (2018). In his study, the

researcher analyzes the speech of President Jokowi. The aim of the study is to find

out the types of grammatical deviation in the speech. Another aim of this study is

to find out the extent of the grammatical deviation in President Jokowi’s speech

related to the the speaker’s social status.

In order to solve the problems, Budiharto (2018) uses the analytical

descriptive method. President Jokowi’s speech in the APEC CEO Summit was

observed and analyzed in order to find its grammatical deviation on the basis of

the framework which uses the theory by Leech. Furthermore, he also identified

the social status of the speaker by using Trudgill’s theory

In Budiharto’s (2018) study, the researcher finds that there are two types

of grammatical deviation in the speech. The first one is morphological deviation.

This means that there are addition and reduction of morphemes incorrectly from a

word (Budiharto, 2018, p.93). The second one is syntactic deviation which means

it is about the pattern of the grammar arranged incorrectly. Another finding in the

study is related to the social status of the speaker, or in this case is President


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Jokowi. In his study, Budiharto (2018) states that the grammatical deviation is not

only done by an uneducated person, but it can happen to educated people as well

(Budiharto, 2018, p.95). According to Budiharto (2018), this againsts the theory

of Trudgill about the Standard English that is used by honorable and educated

people while they who do not speak in Standard English are considered as ‘poor’

and not educated. However, the theory of Trudgill is irrelevant in this case since

Trudgill’s theory is about the native speaker of a language which is English. Thus,

it makes Budiharto’s (2018) finding in this part becomes his weakness in his

study.

The study that is done by Budiharto (2018) has several differences

compared to this study. Budiharto’s (2018) study chooses the speech of President

Jokowi in OPEC CEO Summit as his object of the study, while in this study the

researcher uses Bebe Rexha’s song as mentioned before. Even though the

approach that is used in both studies is stylistic approach, Budiharto (2018) uses

analytical descriptive method including the theories from Leech about

grammatical deviation and Trudgill about the Standard English. Meanwhile, in

this current study the researcher uses stylistic approach that will lead to the

phonological matters in order to solve the problems. However, Budiharto’s (2018)

study and this study discuss the same topic which is grammatical deviation.

The fourth study is “A Stylistic Analysis of The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner” written by Shaukat Khan et al (2016). The object of the study is the

poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge entitled “The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner”. The aims of the study are to show the special interpretive capacity of


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the elements of the poem, bring out the interpretive potential of the semantically

deviant units in the poem, point out the typographical deviations in the encoding

of the poem’s unique message (Khan et al, 2016, 43). In his study, Khan et al

(2016) uses the approach of stylistics to analyze the poem.

The first result of Khan et al’s study is the typographical deviation that is

found has marked the climax of the poem. Besides, the interpretive value in

deviant parts of the poem can be concluded that it is quite high. The study of

Khan et al (2016) and this study are similar due to the approach that is used. Khan

et al (2016) and the researcher of this study uses the stylistics approach. The

difference lies on the object of the study. Khan et al (2016) uses poem while this

study uses songs. The aim of the study is also different since this study leads to

the phonological effects that exist in the song while the study by Khan et al

(2016) leads to semantic matters.

B. Review of Related Theories

In this part the researcher discusses the theories that are used in order to

analyze the object of this study. The theories that are discussed in the following

discussion are only the theories that are close to the problems of this study. The

theories are stylistics, deviation, phonology, and also song.

1. Stylistics

“Stylistics is defined as the analysis of distinctive expression in language

and the description of its purpose and effect” (Verdonk, 2002, p. 4). It means the

language that a writer or a speaker uses has characteristics that differentiate a


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writer or a speaker with other writers or speakers. This is because everyone has

his or her own preference in using or choosing words.

Stylistics can be used to analyze a written and spoken language. Stylistics

can be used to analyze a non-literary and literary text. In literary work, “it is used

to show how the technical linguistic features of the literary work contribute to the

meaning and effects” (Barry, 2009, p. 196). One of the examples of the technical

linguistic feature is grammatical structure. A writer has his or her preference in

choosing dictions for sentences used in his or her literary work. This makes every

writer has his or her own style.

In stylistics, there are several levels of stylistic analysis which are

semantic level, syntactic level, graphological level, and phonological level (Leech

& Short, 2007, pp. 101-105). Among four levels of stylistic analysis, the

researcher only uses two levels: syntactic level and phonological level. The

syntactic level discusses about grammar or the grammatical structure in a text. In

this study it is used to analyze the lyric of Bebe Rexha’s songs. Besides, the

phonological level is also used in this study. This is because phonology deals with

meter and rhyme that are also needed to discuss the object of this study.

2. Deviation

A linguistic deviation is “a disruption of the normal processes of

communication: it leaves a gap, as it were, in one’s comprehension of the text”

(Leech, 1969, p. 61). This means the language that is used by a writer or a speaker

is being violated. The writer or the speaker does not follow the rules of the

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Shamisa states that “there is almost no literary work that does not involve

a sort of deviation from ordinary language” (Shamisa as cited in Pirnajmuddin and

Medhat, 2011, p. 1329). In other words, deviation is something common in

literary works including in a poem. The deviation in the literary work such as

poem differentiates the daily language that people use and the language that a poet

uses in a poem. In poem, it needs a strong word to deliver the ideas of the writer

and the daily language is assumed to be ineffective. Therefore, according to

Shamisa, the deviation in a poem is seen as something that cannot be neglected

since the importance and the influence of a literary work depends on it (Shamisa

in Pirnajmuddin and Medhat, 2011, p.1329).

According to Budiharto (2018), Leech asserts deviations with the concept

of foregrounding (2018, p. 88). Leech (1969) states that linguistic deviation is the

foregrounded figure in a literary work and the language of the literary work

considered as the background (1969, p.57). In other words, deviation in linguistics

is related to the word foregrounding. Foregrounding is the psychological effect

that rises within the literary readers (Verdonk, 2002, p.6). It means the

foregrounding refers to the aesthetic effects that appear in literary works affected

by the deviation.

Leech (1969) also mentions eight types of deviation. Those deviations

are grammatical, lexical, phonological, graphological, semantic, dialectical,

register, and historical period deviation (Leech, 1969, pp. 42-52). In this study, the

grammatical deviation is discussed further in order to analyze the object in this

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3. Grammatical Deviation

“When a sentence is ungrammatical or breaking the rules of grammar,

the sentence is deviated” (Budiharto, 2018, p. 86). In other words, grammatical

deviation is the term for a sentence that is grammatically incorrect or breaking the

grammar rules of a language. The example is the deviations that occur in African

American Vernacular English (AAVE). In AAVE, one of the distinctive

grammatical features is the omission of verb be in a sentence. For example is in

the sentence the soup hot. The sentence is not conforming the grammatical rules.

The sentence is supposed to be the soup is hot.

In grammatical deviation, there are two different features or types. Those

features are syntax and morphology (Leech, 1969, p. 44). In syntax, it deals with

the word pattern in sentences. In morphology, it deals with the grammar of the

word. These types of grammatical deviation are the important things that the

researcher tries to find. This is because the first problem in this study is to find the

types of grammatical deviation in the Bebe Rexha’s songs.

a. Syntax

“Syntax is part of grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of

sentences and their structures” (Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2011, p. 118). This

means that when someone speaks in a particular language, he or she already

knows the structure of the language in his or her head. The speaker knows how to

combine some words into sentences. This is called the rules of syntax which

require the correct word order in a language.


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The rules of syntax depend on the language. A different language will

have different rules as well. In English, it is SVO language or Subject-Verb-

Object language. For example is the word Sally baked a cake. In that sentence,

Sally is the subject, baked is the verb and cake is the object.

In grammatical deviation, syntax deals with the errors of grammar in a

sentence that makes it incorrect in its structure. Besides, it also deals with

syntactic rearrangement or hyperbaton (Leech, 1969, p. 45). “Hyperbaton is the

freedom poets have enjoyed by custom so that he or she can make the arranging

syntactic elements in irregular order” (Leech, 1969, p. 18). This creates a

possibility for a poet to violate the grammatical rules such as putting a verb after

the direct object. Leech (1969) also gives the example in the words he me saw that

is supposed to be he saw me (1969, p. 45).

There are some errors in English grammar that people make. For a poet it

is common for them to make errors in order to create their literary works more

aesthetic. Those errors in English grammar will be discussed in following

discussion.

i. Double Negation

According to Blanchette (2015), double negation is “a sentence with

multiple negative elements corresponding to a single semantic negation or it is

also called negative concord” (p. 2). In other words, double negation occurs when

two negative expressions are in the same sentence. For example is in the sentence

I didn’t eat no food this morning. In that sentence there are two negatives

expressions which are didn’t and no.


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According to Crystal (2008) double negation in a single sentence is not

acceptable in Standard English (p.324). The reason is that the listener or the

reader may confuse with the meaning. For example is in the sentence I don’t eat

nothing and the speaker actually means that he or she has not eat anything.

However, the sentence means he or she eats something. This is because of the two

negative expressions in the sentence.

ii. Omission

Ellipsis or omission is “a term in grammatical analysis which means an

omission of a part of structure in a sentence” (Crystal, 2008, p. 166). It means that

a sentence with ellipsis is not a complete sentence. The example is in the sentence

Been there before as the answer of Have you ever visited that city?. The full

answer or sentence is actually I have been there before. However, the subject I

and the auxiliary verb have is omitted.

There are several types of omission since there are several parts in a

sentence. There are omission of subject, omission of article, omission of modal

auxiliary, omission of linking verb, omission of preposition and omission of

object. For example, in a sentence the subject is omitted then it is called the

omission of subject.

iii. Overgeneralization

“Overgeneralization refers to the process whereby children extend their

use of grammatical feature to context beyond those found in the adult language”

(Crystal, 2008, p. 345). Meaning to say that overgeneralization is commonly done

by children when they start to acquire a language and have not known yet certain


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words in correct form as it is supposed to be. However, it is not only children who

acquire a language. Some adults in this world also try to acquire a foreign

language and they also tend to make a mistake which is overgeneralization. This

is stated by Matiini (2016) that overgeneralization is the learners’ own way to

make rules of the second language because of the influence of the first language

(Matiini, 2016, hal. 145). The example is when someone who learns English say

‘mouses’ instead of ‘mice’. This is because commonly the plural noun in English

is added a suffix which is {–s} or {–es}.

iv. Deviation of Verb

“Verb is a term used in the grammatical classification of words to refer to

a class traditionally defined as ‘doing’ or ‘action word” (Crystal, 2008, p. 510).

From the definition, it means that verb is used in a sentence to describe what the

subject does. Besides, the deviation of verb means that the verb is used

incorrectly. For example is in the sentence He doin’ it. The sentence is supposed

to be He does it since the subject of the sentence is the third singular person.

v. Deviation of Preposition

“Preposition is a term in grammatical classification of words that refers

to a set of items which typically precedes noun phrases to form a single

constituent of structure” (Crystal, 2008, p. 383). In other words, preposition is

used to connect between two nouns. The example of preposition is in, for, of, on,

and so on. The example of deviation of preposition can be seen in the sentence we

arrive to Jakarta. The preposition to is not correct and it is supposed to be at since

the correct preposition of arrive is at or in.


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vi. Deviation of Pronoun

“Pronoun is the lexical category functions as noun phrase in isolation”

(Trask, 1996, pp. 221-222). This means that pronoun can stand without any

article. Moreover, pronoun can be a subject and also object in a sentence. The

example of pronoun is they, we, I, you, she, he, me, my, mine, and so on. Those

pronouns sometimes appear in incorrect way which is called deviation of pronoun.

The example is in the words this is me phone. In that sentence, the pronoun me is

supposed to be my since the sentence needs a possessive pronoun to show the

owner of the object.

vii. Deviation of Article

“Article is a determiner which lacks independent meaning but serves to

indicate the degree of specificity of noun phrase” (Trask, 1996, p. 21). In other

words, an article is meaningless if it stands alone. In English, there are two kinds

of article, which are definite article and indefinite article. The example of definite

article is the and the example of indefinite article is a or an. The example of

deviation of article is in the words they hid in a isolation place. In that sentence,

the correct article is an since the following word is begun with vowel.

viii. Deviation of Noun

“Noun is defined as one of the lexical categories that denote individual

physical entities” (Trask, 1996, p. 188). Commonly, noun is associated with the

notion of ‘name’ and ‘thing’ (Crystal, 2008, p. 333). It means, the noun can be the

subject and the object. The example of noun is dog, table, the girl, and so on.


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The deviation of noun sometimes occurs in a sentence. The example of

deviation of noun is in the sentence he eats some candy. The noun candy in the

sentence is incorrect. It is supposed to be candies because the number of the

candy is more than one and it can be seen from the determiner some.

b. Morphology

“Morphology is the branch of grammar which studies the structure or

forms of words” (Crystal, 2008, p. 314). This means morphology discusses word-

formation or the process to make new words. For example is the information of

how a word can be formed by adding affixes which is called affixation. When the

word happy is added by the prefix {-un} then it becomes unhappy. The word that

is changed also changes the meaning from happy which means a good feeling into

unhappy which means unpleasant feeling.

4. Phonology

“Phonology is a branch of linguistics that studies the sound system of

languages” (Crystal, 2008, p. 365). In phonology, the speech sounds are being

studied. By studying phonology, someone can differentiate which sounds that

have meaning and which sounds that are meaningless in a language. For example

is the word blcak is meaningless in English. However, the word black has a

meaning in English which is the name of color. Besides that, phonology also deals

with rhyme and also meter that is explained in following discussion.

In phonology, it also studies the poetic devices which are used to analyze

the literary text which is poetry. Those devices are rhyme, meter, consonance,


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assonance, and alliteration. However, this study will only discussed the effects in

rhyme and meter.

a. Rhyme

Rhyme, as stated by Madden (2002), is the sounds that come at the final

lines when the final vowel and consonant sounds in a word at the end of one line

match the vowel and consonant sounds at the end of another (2002, p. 70). This

means that rhyme focuses on the nucleus and the coda in the last word of a line

which similar to the last word in the previous or in the next line. “This will make

the mind of the listener starts to recognize the patterns and to anticipate what will

follow” (Bradley, 2009, p. 50).

There are three kinds of rhyme. First is monosyllabic rhyme. The

example of it is the words rat and cat. Second is disyllabic just like in the words

jelly and belly. Third is multisyllabic in the words achromatic and acrobatic.

Besides, “rhyme comes in numerous varieties and each has a distinct function in

sound and sense” (Bradley, 2009, p. 57). First is perfect rhyme or full rhyme

which words have the same vowel and also the consonants that are identical. The

examples for the perfect rhyme are the words tall and call. Second is slant rhyme

or imperfect rhyme which involves shared final-consonant sounds but different

vowel sounds (Bradley, 2009, p. 57). The example is the word all and bowl.

b. Meter

Meter refers to “the measurable repetition of accented and unaccented

syllables in poetry” (Arp & Johnson, 2009, hal. 1664). Madden (2002) defines

meter as the pattern of stressed ( / ) and unstressed ( ˇ ) syllables in a line (2002, p.


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71). This stressed and unstressed pattern are something important to observe in

the poetry. Besides, this element is also used to observe other literary work. In this

case, song is also included.

According to Madden (2002) the group of syllables making up one

metrical unit is called foot (p. 71). There are four types of metrical feet: iambic,

trochaic, anapestic and dactylic. Those metrical feet are usually applied by poets

in writing poems. Furthermore, the number of feet in each line is described as

monometer, dimeter, trimeter, tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter and

octameter.

i. Iambic

In this iambic foot, it begins with unstressed syllable. The unstressed

syllable is marked with ( ˇ ). Then it is continued by the stressed syllable. The

stressed syllable is marked with ( / ). The example is:

ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ /

1) Shall I | compare | thee to | a sum | mer’s day

ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ /

2) Thou art | more love | ly and | more tem | perate

From the example above it can be seen that those lines are begun with

unstressed syllables shall and thou. They are followed by the stressed syllables I

and art. This metrical pattern is repeated 5 times which makes 5 feet in every line.


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ii. Trochaic

In this foot there are two syllables as well. Those are stressed syllable

and unstressed syllable. In this foot, the stressed syllable is followed by the

unstressed syllable. The example is:

/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ

1) Deep in | heart-wrung | tears I’ll | ledge thee

/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ / ˇ

2) Warring | sighs and | groans I’ll | wage thee

The two lines are begun with stressed syllable deep and war-. They are

followed by unstressed syllable in and -ring. This metrical pattern is repeated 4

times. This means there are 4 feet in every line above.

iii. Anapestic

Anapestic is different from iambic and also trochaic. In anapestic, it

contains two unstressed and one stressed syllable. Anapestic begins with two

unstressed syllable then follows the one stressed syllable. The example is:

ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ /

1) The Assyr | ian came down | like the wolf | on the fold

ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ /

2) When the blue | waves rolls nigh | tly on deep | Galilee

It can be seen from the example above that in the first foot in every line

has two unstressed syllable and it is followed by one stressed syllable. This

metrical pattern is repeated 4 times that makes 4 feet in every line.


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iv. Dactylic

Dactylic has the same number of syllables with the anapestic. The

difference is that in dactylic foot, it begins with one stressed syllable and followed

by two unstressed syllables. The example is:

/ ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ

1) Are you still | standing there | east of the | Garden of Eden or

/ ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ / ˇ ˇ

2) Were you re | lieved by the | flood that re | vised our ge | ography

The example above shows that in dactylic each line is begun with a

stressed syllable: are and were. They are followed by 2 unstressed syllables in one

foot: you still and you re-. There are 4 feet in every line since the metrical pattern

is repeated 4 times.

5. Song

According to Ammer (2004), song is defined as “any piece of vocal

music” (p. 389) and “lyric is the text of the song” (p. 223). The lyric in a song is

similar to a poetry since both share the same characteristics which one of them is

rhyme. This is supported by Vosahlik (2016) that “common feature for both lyric

and poetry is rhyme” (p. 13).

The writer of lyric and poetry also have their own style in creating the

lyric and poetry related to the rhyme. In other words, lyric and poetry can be

treated the same way in stylistics. In addition, they can be analyzed through the

perspective of phonetic since rhyme is one of the phonetic devices.


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Usually, a song lyric is categorized in lyric poetry. Lyric poetry is

“characterized by the expression of the speaker’s innermost feelings, thoughts,

and imagination” (Madden, 2002, p. 76). This makes the contents of songs mostly

are telling a story and expressing the singer’s mind.

C. Theoretical Framework

The approach that is used in this study is stylistic approach and the level

that the researcher chooses in this study is on the syntactical level or grammatical

level. In this syntactical level, the theory helps the researcher to analyze the

structure in the songs. Moreover, the researcher also chooses the stylistic

approach in phonological level. This helps the researcher to find the possible

effects of the song to the listener through the rhyme and the meter of the songs.

The theory of deviation is also important in this study. The theory of

deviation that focuses on the grammatical deviation helps the researcher find the

answer of the first problem in this study which is about the types of the

grammatical deviation. Then, the researcher analyzes the songs and makes a

conclusion about the types of grammatical deviation found in the songs.

Another theory in this study is phonology. The theory of phonology

consists of two main theories which are rhyme and meter. These theories are used

in this study to analyze the pattern of the songs including the stressed and

unstressed syllable in the songs that will relate to the grammar and structure. This

will help the researcher to find the answer of the second problem which is about

the phonological effects of the grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs.


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CHAPTER III

METHODOLOGY

In this chapter there are three main parts to discuss. The first is the object

of the study. In this part the researcher discusses the data of this study. The second

is approach of the study. In this part, the researcher discusses the approach that is

used to analyze the data that the researcher has collected. The third is the method

of the study. In this part, it shows the way the researcher collected the data and

then analyzed the data.

A. Object of the Study

The object in this study is the song lyrics of Bebe Rexha’s songs. As a

singer and also a songwriter, Bebe Rexha is quite productive in writing and

arranging songs. There are several song lyrics that she wrote and sang herself.

However, in this study the researcher chose five Bebe Rexha’s songs which are

placed in Hot100 in the billboard’s chart history according to www.billboard.com.

Those songs are “I’m a Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and

I” and “I Got You”. The lyrics of the songs are taken from www.azlyrics.com.

The five songs of Bebe Rexha were chosen based on the grammatical

deviation which found as well. One of the example of the grammatical deviation

was clearly found in one of the song titles which is “The Way I Are”. In the title,

the pronoun I was followed by an auxiliary are, however it should be followed by

an auxiliary am.


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B. Approach of the Study

This study applied stylistic approach in analyzing the object which were

the songs of Bebe Rexha. Stylistic approach was conducted in two levels:

grammatical level and phonological level. “Stylistics is defined as the analysis of

distinctive expression in language and the description of its purpose and effect”

(Verdonk, 2002, p. 4). This means that stylistics also discusses the purpose and

the effect of a certain text and in this case the text is from the lyric of Bebe

Rexha’s songs. Since this study analyzed the language style in Bebe Rexha’s

songs and its effects, stylistic approach was suitable for this research.

C. Method of the Study

1. Data Collection

This research applied a sample study as the data collection method. This

means that the researcher only chose some of Bebe Rexha’s songs. In this study,

the researcher chose five songs of Bebe Rexha and those songs were “I’m a

Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and I” and “I Got You”.

Furthermore, in this study the researcher applied the purposive sampling strategy.

This required the researcher to choose what to be sampled and it had to be able to

purposefully inform an understanding of the research problem and central

phenomenon in the study (Creswell, 2007, p. 125). In other words, the sample was

not randomly chosen.

In analyzing the data in this study, the researcher conducted several steps.

First, the researcher chose the data which were Bebe Rexha’s songs entitled “I’m


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a Mess”, “Meant to be”, “The Way I Are”, “Me Myself and I” and “I Got You”

from the Billboard’s chart history. Second, the researcher found the lyrics in

www.azlyrics.com. Third, the researcher observed the grammatical deviations in

the lyrics. Forth, the researcher analyzed the process that made the grammar in the

lyrics were deviated in order to answer the problem formulations in this study.

2. Data Analysis

In order to answer the two problems, the researcher observed the lyrics of

Bebe Rexha’s songs. First of all, the researcher looked for the grammatical

deviations in the song lyrics. Then, the grammatical deviations were analyzed and

classified into some categories based on the process that occur such as double

negation, ellipsis, deviation of verb and so on. Next, the grammatical deviations in

the lyrics were categorized into two types of grammatical deviation which were

syntax and morphology. This was in order to answer the first problem in this

study which was about the types of grammatical deviation in Bebe Rexha’s songs.

After answering the first problem in this study, the researcher conducted

the next analysis which was phonological analysis towards the lyrics of Bebe

Rexha’s songs. The researcher analyzed the rhyme and meter in the lyrics as the

possible effects of the grammatical deviations that occurred in the lyrics of Bebe

Rexha’s songs. However, the researcher only observed the sentences or lines in

the lyrics that were grammatically deviated. The sentences which were not

grammatically deviated were not discussed in this study. This was conducted in

order to answer the second problem which was the phonological effects caused by

the grammatical deviations in the lyrics of Bebe Rexha’s song.


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CHAPTER IV

ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

In this chapter, there will be two main parts that will be discussed by the

researcher. The first part discusses about the types of grammatical deviation in

Bebe Rexha’s songs in order to find the answer for the first problem formulation.

The second part discusses about the phonological effects of the grammatical

deviation which are found in the Bebe Rexha’s songs. This part is for answering

the second problem formulation in this study.

A. Types of Grammatical Deviation Found in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics

In this part the researcher analyzes the types of grammatical deviation in

Bebe Rexha’s songs. There are two types of grammatical deviation which are

syntax or syntactical deviation and morphology or morphological deviation

(Leech, 1969, p. 44). However, in the five Bebe Rexha’s songs there is only

syntactical deviation and the researcher does not find the morphological deviation

in the songs.

In syntactical deviation, the deviations in Bebe Rexha’s songs that are

already analyzed by the researcher are categorized into seven grammatical

deviation processes. Those processes are omission, deviation of verb, double

negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article, deviation of preposition and

overgeneralization. In this part, researcher discusses all the grammatical

deviations occur in the songs based on the grammatical deviation processes.


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The researcher provides the information about the grammatical

deviations processes found in Bebe Rexha’s songs in the table below.

Table 1. The Summary of Grammatical Deviations Occur

in Bebe Rexha’s Songs

The table above shows the total deviations found in five songs of Bebe

Rexha which is 50 deviations. The table shows there are seven grammatical

deviation processes as well. The grammatical deviation process of omission

dominates the whole grammatical deviation since it has the highest percentage

which is 78 %. The frequency for the omission is 39. The deviations of verb found

in the songs are 5 and the percentage for it is 10 %. This makes the deviation of

verb lies in the second position after the omission. The third place is in the

deviation that is categorized as double negation. There are two double negations

in the songs and the percentage is 4 %. The rest of the grammatical deviation

processes such as deviation of noun, deviation of article, overgeneralization and

deviation of preposition have the same frequency which is only 1 deviation. The

percentage is also the same: 2 %. Those grammatical deviation processes is

discussed in the following discussion.

No Grammatical Deviation

Process

Frequency Percentage (%)

1. Omission 39 78 %

2. Deviation of Verb 5 10 %

3. Double Negation 2 4 %

4. Deviation of Noun 1 2 %

5. Deviation of Article 1 2 %

6. Deviation of Preposition 1 2 %

7. Overgeneralization 1 2 %

Total 50 100 %


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1. Omission

The omission is one of the grammatical deviation processes that is mostly

found in the five Bebe Rexha’s songs. There are 39 grammatical deviations of

omission found from a total 50 grammatical deviations in those five Bebe Rexha’s

songs. It means that grammatical deviation of omission dominate more than a half

of grammatical deviations found in the songs. The omission in the songs mostly

occurs in the subject of the sentences. This means that most of the sentences in the

song lyrics have no subject in them. The example is in the line Pop a couple xans

with somebody in Bebe Rexha’s song “Meant to be”. In the sentence, the subject

is omitted. The correct form of the sentence is I pop a couple xans with somebody.

In five songs of Bebe Rexha, the researcher finds six types of omission.

Those are omission of subject, omission of article, omission of modal auxiliary,

omission of linking verb, omission of object and omission of preposition. The

further explanation of those six types of omission is provided bellow.

a. Omission of Subject

The first type of omission is the omission of subject. All five songs by

Bebe Rexha have the grammatical deviation in omission of subject in them. The

omission of subject in the songs in total is 30 from 39 grammatical deviation of

omission. Those 30 omissions of subject occur in the four songs out of five songs

that are being studied. Those are “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “The Way I

Are” and “I’m a Mess”. The full display of omission of subject is provided in the

appendix 1. The table below only provides the sample from the five songs of Bebe

Rexha.


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Table 2. Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs

Song Grammatical Deviation Grammatical

“Me, Myself and I” Get what I want when I

want

I get what I want when I

want

Don't want to work for it They don’t want to work

for it

Made it right here 'cause

I'm sick with it Cudi

I made it right here

because I’m sick with it

Cudi

“The Way I Are” Can't dance but kinda

grind 'em

I cannot dance but I kind

of grind them

Roll it up 'cause we so ill We roll it up because we

are so ill

“I Got You” Lookin' like you need it We don’t have to be so

guarded

Tell a lie for you I would tell a lie for you

“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere

fast

We do not need to go

anywhere fast

See where this thing goes We will see where this

things goes

“I’m a Mess” Have a drink on me

cheers to the failing

They have a drink on me


The table shows the grammatical deviations in omission of subject in five

songs of Bebe Rexha. In the song “Me, Myself and I” there are 12 omissions of

subject. In “The Way I Are” there are 9 omissions of subject. In the song “I Got

You” there are 6 omissions of subject. Meanwhile, in “I’m a Mess” there is only

one omission of subject.

The subjects omitted are different in each sentence. This depends on the

context of the song. This also depends on the person or people that the singer is

talking to. For example is in the song “Me, Myself and I”. All the subjects in the

song is I. This is because in the song, the singers which are Bebe Rexha and G-


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Eazy want to show their expression. They want to show their mind and opinion to

others. It can be seen in the line:

Get what I want when I want

Know I’m great

Those sentences show the speaker’s or the singer’s mind about himself or herself.

The correct sentences are:

I get what I want when I want

I know I’m great

This is different from the sentence with omission of subject in the song “I

Got You”. One of the sentences in “I Got You” is:

Tell a lie for you

The subject that is needed is I since the song is talking about the singer’s hope

towards someone else. In that sentence the speaker or the singer commits to do

something in the future. Therefore, the auxiliary will or would is needed after the

subject I. The sentence that precedes the sentence above is I’d do the time for you

or in the full form is I would do the time for you. Thus, the correct sentence for the

deviated sentence above is:

I would tell a lie for you

The auxiliary would is used in order to keep the consistency of the sentences since

in the previous sentence it uses the word would.

Another example is in the song “The Way I Are” in the line:

Roll it up ‘cause we so ill


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In this song, the singer tells others about her and her friends. This means the

subject is first person plural we. This can be seen from the line that after the

conjunction ‘cause or because, the subject is we. Therefore, the correct subject for

the line above is we.

We roll it up because we are so ill

The line above is the correct sentence for the deviated sentence in the lyric.

In the song “I’m mess” there is only one sentence that is grammatically

deviated. The deviated sentence in the lyric is:

Have a drink on me cheers to the failing

The correct sentence for the sentence above is:

They have a drink on me cheers to the failing

The subject they is chosen because in this part of the song, the singer is

describing people around her which act meanly to her. This means the singer talks

about the third person plural. The third person plural that is needed is they since

its role is an active subject that does something. Their and them are not correct for

it does not show the possession of something and it is not an object that is

affected.

b. Omission of Article

Omission of article only occurs in one out of five Bebe Rexha’s songs.

The song is “Me, Myself and I”. The further information is provided in the table

below:


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Table 3. Omission of Article in Bebe Rexha Songs

The table above shows the grammatical deviation which is omission of

article. The four omissions of article are found in Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and

I”. The four sentences are considered deviate the rules in English. This is stated by

Fromkin et al (2011) in one of the sentence examples in their book that in a

sentence which lack of article is ungrammatical (2011, p. 63). Meaning to say that

an article cannot be omitted in a sentence. In Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and I”

there are four sententences that the articles are omitted.

I just need privacy

I just need space

I’m folding cake

It’s no debate

Those sentences are lack of article which make them grammatically incorrect. The

sentences should be added by an indefinite article since the noun is indefinite.

Besides, the nouns in the four sentences are also firstly mentioned in those

sentences so it needs an indefinite article a or an. The correct forms of the

sentences are:

I just need a privacy

I just need a space

I’m folding a cake

It’s not a debate


“Me, Myself

and I”

And as far as I can see I

just need privacy

And as far as I can see I just need

a privacy

I just need space I just need a space

I'm folding cake I’m folding a cake

It's no debate It is not a debate


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Since all the nouns in the four lines above begin with non-vowel letter then the

indefinite article that is used is a.

c. Omission of Linking Verb

The researcher finds two omissions of linking verb after analyzing the

five songs by Bebe Rexha. The omissions of verb found in Bebe Rexha’s “The

Way I Are” and “Me, Myself and I”. The table below provides the examples about

the omissions of linking verb in two Bebe Rexha’s songs.

Table 4. Omission of Linking Verb in Bebe Rexha’s songs

Song Grammatical

Deviation

Grammatical

“The Way I Are” Roll it up ‘cause we

so ill

You roll it up because we are so ill

“Me, Myself and I” A Stella Maxwell

right beside of me

A Stella Maxwell is right beside

me

From the table it can be observed the sentences that are grammatically

deviated. For example is in the sentence:

Roll it up ‘cause we so ill

In that sentence there is no verb after the subject we and before the

adverb and adjective so and ill. The sentence will be correct when a linking verb

is added after the subject since the sentence is followed by adverb so and adjective

ill. This is supported by Fromkin et al (2011) that verb be is needed before the

adjective and it acts as an auxiliary (2011, pp. 153-154). Meaning to say that there

must be a verb after a subject and before the adjective or in this case is adjective

that precede by adverb. Therefore, the correct sentence will be:

We roll it up because we are so ill


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The linking verb that is added is are because the subject that precedes it is we

which is plural.

d. Omission of Modal Auxiliary

There is only one omission of modal auxiliary in Bebe Rexha song called

“The Way I Are”. The omission of modal auxiliary is found in the line:

I be right behind her spinal

The sentence shows what the speaker is going to do in the future. The sentence

above is grammatically incorrect since there is no modal auxiliary after the subject

I. According to Fromkin et al (2011), “auxiliaries provide the verb with a time

frame and one of them is events that occur in the future” (2011, p. 129). This

means that the appropriate modal auxiliary for showing the coming events is will.

Therefore, the sentence needs modal auxiliary will after the subject I. The correct

form of that sentence will be:

I will be right before her spinal

According to the discussion above, it shows the importance of modal

auxiliary in a sentence. If it is left behind then the sentence is incomplete. This

makes the sentence is grammatically deviated.

e. Omission of Preposition

The researcher analyzes five songs by Bebe Rexha and finds one

omission of preposition in one of the songs. The song is “Me, Myself and I”. The

omission of preposition is in the line:

Pray the Lord, my soul to take


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In the sentence, the speaker or singer wants to say that he or she pray to

the Lord. However, the sentence is incorrect because the preposition to is omitted.

The correct sentence will be:

I pray to the Lord, my soul to take

This is supported by the rule about the verb phrase containing preposition phrase

by Fromkin et al (2011) that one of the rules for the verb phrase is a verb and

followed by a prepositional phrase (2011, p. 132). It is described as:

VP V PP

For example is in the sentence The man sits on the bench. It explains in the

following discussion:

The man sits on the bench

V PP

The verb sit is followed by the prepositional phrase on the bench. Prepositional

phrase of course needs a preposition in it so it is called prepositional phrase. In the

example above, the preposition that is used is in.

In the lyric of “Me, Myself and I”, the line Pray the lord, my soul to take

it should be added by preposition so that it can be a prepositional phrase. The

appropriate preposition for the sentence is to since it is in a phrasal verb.

Pray the lord, my soul to take

V N

The rule is VP V PP so the sentence should be:

I pray to the Lord, my soul to take

V PP

The phrase to the Lord in the sentence above is the correct form for a

prepositional phrase.


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If the preposition to is omitted then it is not a prepositional phrase. This

will break the rule of verb phrase VP V PP which makes the sentence is

deviated or grammatically incorrect.

f. Omission of Object

Omission of object is found in one of Bebe Rexha’s songs that are being

analyzed in this study. It is in Bebe Rexha’s “Me, Myself and I”. The lyric in the

song is:

Celebrate nightly and everyone rages.

The sentence is incomplete since there is no object after the verb celebrate. The

verb celebrate in this sentence is functioned as a transitive verb. Transitive verb is

a verb that can take a direct object (Crystal, 2008, p. 494). Meaning to say that

transitive verb requires an object or more than one objects. The appropriate object

for the sentence is it since a pronoun can be a direct object. The correct sentence

would be:

I celebrate it nightly and everyone rages

The word it refers to the success and the popularity that are gained by the speaker

or the singer as in the lyric.

2. Deviation of Verb

There are five deviations of verb found in Bebe Rexha’s songs. From five

songs that are being analyzed, the researcher only finds the deviation of verb in

the song “I’m a Mess” and “The Way I Are”. The detailed information about

deviations of verb that occur in the two songs is provided bellow.


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Table 5. Deviation of Verb in Bebe Rexha’s Songs


“I’m a Mess” Pretty sure he don’t

wanna be my baby

Pretty sure he does not want to be

my baby

He don’t love me

He does not love me

That’s what my therapist

say

That is what my therapist says

“The Way I

Are”

Love me the way I are You love me the way I am

Every time she dance it’s

exotic

Every time she dances it is exotic

The table shows the deviations in each song of Bebe Rexha. In “I’m a

Mess” there are three deviations of verb. Meanwhile, in the song “The Way I Are”

there are two deviations of verb. From the five deviations of verb exist in the two

songs, the four mistakes in verbs have third person singular as the subject.

According to Eastwood (2002) third person singular has a verb form which is S-

verb (p. 76). This means the verb should be added by suffix {-s}. In the song “I’m

a Mess” the sentences which have the incorrect form of verb are:

Pretty sure he don’t wanna be my baby

He don’t love me

That’s what my therapist say

The first and the second sentence has he as the subject and the third sentence has

my therapist. Those subjects are the third person singular which means the

following verb needs to be in S-form. Therefore the correct sentences are:

Pretty sure he does not want to be my baby

He does not love me

That’s what my therapist says


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The incorrect form of verb also occurs in the song “The way I Are” in the

sentence:

Every time she dance it’s exotic

The sentence has the third person singular as well which is she. Therefore the

correct sentence should be:

Every time she dances it’s exotic

However, it is different from another sentence that has deviation of verb in “The

Way I Are”. The sentence is:

Love me the way I are

In that sentence the subject is the first person singular I and it is followed by a

linking verb are. Based on Eastwood’s (2002) explanation, a singular noun I is

followed by an auxiliary verb am (p.105). Therefore, the correct sentence from the

sentence above is:

Love me the way I am

This rule is also used in the title of the song which comes from the

sentence above. The title of the song is “The Way I Are”. However, just like in

the sentence that is corrected. It should be “The Way I Am”.

3. Double Negation

There are two sentences in Bebe Rexha’s songs that contain double

negation. The two sentences are in her song entitled “Meant to be” and “I’m a

Mess”. The double negations in those two songs are discussed in the following

table.


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Table 6. Double Negation in Bebe Rexha’s Songs


“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere

fast

You do not need to go anywhere

fast

“I’m a Mess” I don’t trust no one

around us

I do not trust anyone around us

Crystal (2008) states that double negation in a sentence is not acceptable

in Standard English (p. 324). This is because the two negative expressions affect

the meaning of the sentence. This can make people who read or listen a sentence

with double negative get confused because this distracts the logical structure. The

sentences in the songs are:

No need to go nowhere fast

I don’t trust no one around us

The speaker or the singer wants to deliver is actually:

You do not need to go anywhere fast

I do not trust anyone around us

Those sentences above are the correct forms. However, when the two negative

expressions are used in those sentences then the meaning will be different. Those

can be:


You need to go somewhere fast

I don’t trust no one around us

I trust everyone around us

This is the reason people who read or listen to a sentence with double negation

can get confused in term of the meaning.


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4. Deviation of Noun

From five songs of Bebe Rexha that are analyzed in this study, there is

one song that has a deviation of noun. That deviation of noun exists in the song

“Me, Myself and I”. The deviation is in the line:

Plus a whole lot of tree

The sentence above is incorrect. This is because the line stating there is a

noun which is tree that is supposed to be in the plural form. This can be observed

by looking at the adverb that is used before the word tree: a lot of. Fromkin et al

(2011) explains that a plural noun should be added by suffix {-s} (p. 91). This

means that the noun tree in the line needs to be added by {-s} since it becomes

plural noun.

Plus a whole lot of trees

The sentence above is the correct form for the line in the lyric.

5. Deviation of Article

There is only one deviation of article that is found among the five songs

of Bebe Rexha. The only deviation of article exists in the song “The Way I Are”.

It is in the sentence bellow:

We can turn this dance floor to a island

In the sentence above is incorrect because the article a is not the

appropriate form for the noun island. The indifinite article a is used for a noun

that begins with a consonant sound while an is used for a noun that begins with a

vowel sound (Eastwood, 2002, p. 158). Therefore, the correct sentence for the

lyric is:


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We can turn this dance floor to an island

In the sentence above, the noun island is begun with the diphthong which

is /ʌɪ/ then the correct article for the noun is an. This is because diphthong is the

sequence of two vowels (Fromkin et al, 2011, pp. 248-249). This means,

diphthong is part of vowel as well.

6. Deviation of Preposition

There is only one deviation of preposition found in the songs of Bebe

Rexha. That sentence is a part of the song entitled “Me, Myself and I”. The

deviation is in the sentence:

A Stella Maxwell right beside of me

In the sentence above there are three prepositions. Those prepositions are

the word right, beside and of. The preposition beside in the sentence shows the

position or it is called preposition of place. Meanwhile, the preposition of of and

right are additional prepositions.

Eastwood (2002) explains that it is possible to modify the preposition

using right such us in right in front of the building (p. 287). However, Eastwood

(2002) also explains that the use of of is only in the words on to of, out of and in

front of. (p. 289). Therefore, the correct form of the senctence is:

A Stella Maxwell is right beside me

The additional preposition of of is not necessary in the sentence above. The

preposition right in the sentence above is an addition as well but it is still allowed

according to Eastwood (2002). Thus, it is correct to use it in that sentence.


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7. Overgeneralization

There is one deviation that is categorized as overgeneralization in five

songs of Bebe Rexha that are being analized in this study. It is in Bebe Rexha’s

“Me, Myself and I”. The sentence is:

It’s no debate

The sentence is incorrect because it uses the incorrect negative expression. It is

supposed to be not. The correct sentence is:

It’s not a debate

According to Eastwood (2002) the negative expression not or n’t comes

after an auxiliary (p.17). This means that the negative expression not in the

sentence is supposed to be preceded by an auxiliary is.

B. Phonological Effects of Rhyme and Meter as the Result of Grammatical

Deviation in Bebe Rexha’s Song Lyrics

There are two phonological effects caused by the grammatical deviations

in Bebe Rexha’s songs. The first effect is rhyme. The second effect is meter or the

metrical pattern. These phonological effects are intended to make the songs

become more aesthetic and appealing when people listen to the songs.

From seven grammatical deviation processes that are discussed in this

study, three grammatical deviation processes have phonological effects. Those

grammatical deviation processes are omission, deviation of verb and deviation of

noun. The deviation of verb and deviation of noun in Bebe Rexha’s songs are

made to make the line is rhymed to previous and after the line. Besides, the


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omission is made in order to get the right metrical pattern in the lines of the songs.

Further explanation is discussed in the following discussion.

1. Rhyme

The first phonological effect caused by the grammatical deviation in

Bebe Rexha’s songs is rhyme. Rhyme is the sounds that come at the final lines

when the final vowel and consonant sounds in a word at the end of one line match

the vowel and consonant sounds at the end of another (Madden, 2002, p. 70). In

other words, rhyme occurs when the nucleus and the coda of two or more words

in different lines match one another in the end of the lines. In her songs, Bebe

Rexha deviates the grammatical rules in order to make the lines in the lyrics

rhymed. The discussion bellow is provided in order to discuss the rhyme in Bebe

Rexha’s songs in detail.

a. Deviation of Verb

The deviations of verb that create rhyme lie in two Bebe Rexha’s songs

from five songs that are analyzed in this study. Those songs are “I’m a Mess” and

“The Way I Are”. There is one line in each song that applies deviation of verb.

The first is the line in “I’m a mess” which is That’s what my therapist say. The

full lines are:

Everything's gonna be alright

Everything's gonna be okay

It's gonna be a good, good, life

That's what my therapist say

From the lyric it can be seen that the grammatical deviation occurs in the

last line above. The word say /seɪ/ is supposed to be says since the subject before

it is a third person singular. Besides, the second line ends with the word okay


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/əʊkeɪ/ which rhymes with the last line. This is because the word say and okay

have the same nucleus which is /eɪ/ and both words do not have coda. This means

that the songwriter deviates the last line in order to rhyme it to the previous line

which is the second line.

Table. 7 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb

in Bebe Rexha’s “I’m a Mess”

Lyric Rhyme Rhyme Pattern

Everything's gonna be alright /aɪt/ A

Everything's gonna be okay /eɪ/ B

It's gonna be a good, good, life /aɪf/ C

That's what my therapist say /eɪ/ B

From the table above, it can be seen that the rhyme pattern of the lines is

A-B-C-B. The word say in the fourth line and okay in the second line rhyme each

other since the nucleus are the same. Besides, the first line and the third line also

have the similarity which is in the nucleus /aɪ/.

The second line that applies deviation of verb is in the song “The Way I

Are”. The line is Just love me the way I are. Meanwhile, the full lines are:

It could be anybody

Tell me are you that somebody

Don’t matter who you are

Just love me the way I are

In the last line is suppossed to be Just the way I am. This is because the

subject I is followed by to be am which in the line is functioned as a verb.


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Therefore the correct form of the line should be Just love me the way I am.

However, the deviation is made in order to make the word are rhymes the

previous line which ends with the word are. The phonetic transcription for the

word are is /ɑ:/. This means that both are not only the same word but also have

the same nucleus in order to rhyme. The following table gives the further

information about the lines.

Table. 8 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Verb

in Bebe Rexha’s “The Way I Are”


It could be anybody /i/ A

Tell me are you that somebody /i/ A

Don’t matter who you are /ɑ:/ B

Just love me the way I are /ɑ:/ B

The table above shows the rhyme and also the rhyme pattern of the lines

in the song “The Way I Are”. The first line has the same rhyme like in the second

line. Both last words have the same nucleus /i/ and do not have coda. Besides, the

third line has the same rhyme like in the fourth line. Both last words share the

same nucleus as well which is /ɑ:/. Both words also do not have coda just like the

first and the second line. This creates a rhyme pattern which is A-A-B-B.

b. Deviation of Noun

Besides the deviation of verb, the deviation of noun also creates rhyme.

There is only one line that creates rhyme as the effect of the deviation of noun.


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The line exists in the song “Me, Myself and I”. The line is plus a whole lt f tree

and the full lines are:

As far as I can see

I just need privacy

Plus a whole lot of tree

Fuck all this modesty

The correct form for the third line is plus a whole lot of trees. This is

because the word tree is meant to be plural. However, if the word tree is written in

the correct form it does not rhyme with the previous and the next lines which has

the same nucleus which is /i:/. The table below gives further information about the

rhyme.

Table. 9 Rhyme Effect of Deviation of Noun


As fas as I can see /i:/ A

I just need privacy /I/ B

Plus a whole lot of tree /i:/ A

Fuck all this modesty /I/ B

It can be observed in the table that the last word in the first line has the

sound /i:/ as its nucleus. In the third line, it also has the sound /i:/ in the last word.

This means that the first and the third line have the same rhyme. In addition, the

second and the fourth lines also share the same rhyme which is the sound /I/ as

their nucleus. This also means that both lines are rhymed each other. This makes

the rhyme pattern which is A-B-A-B.


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2. Meter

The second phonological effect as the result of the grammatical deviation

in Bebe Rexha’s songs is meter. “Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed

syllable in a line” (Madden, 2002, p. 71). Therefore, in this part the researcher

analyzes the stressed and unstressed syllable in sentences that are deviated. The

stressed and unstressed syllables in the songs are analyzed based on the way the

singer sings the song and not based on the dictionaries. The researcher uses the

symbol (/) to show the stressed syllable and (ˇ) to show the unstressed syllable.

There are five deviated sentences in Bebe Rexha’s songs that create the

right meter. All the five sentences are in the grammatical deviation process of

omission which is omission of subject. The further discussion about meter in Bebe

Rexha’s songs is discussed below.

There are five sentences that have omission of subjects in three songs of

Bebe Rexha “I Got You”, “I’m a Mess” and “Me, Myself and I”. There are three

deviated lines in “I Got You”, one line in “I’m a Mess” and one line in “Me,

Myself and I”. The metrical patterns of the lines are discussed in this part.

The first is the omission of subject in the song “I Got You”. From six

deviated lines in this song, there are some of them that are discussed below. The

first is:

Tell you no lies

We can get lost

From the two lines above, the first line is deviated. The correct form for

the sentence in the first line is I tell you no lies. The subject I is needed since the

singer talks to the second person you. It can be seen from the previous line in the


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lyric that the singer or I directly talk to you as well. The first line above is

deviated to make the right metrical pattern. The metrical pattern is:

/ ˇ / ˇ

Tell you | no lies

/ ˇ / ˇ

We can | get lost

It can be seen from the two lines above that both lines have the same

metrical pattern. The first line begins with stressed syllable and it is followed by

unstressed syllable. This is called trochaic. The stressed syllable is tell and the

unstressed syllable is you. This also happens in the second line. The stressed

syllable is we and the unstressed syllable is can. Besides, there are two feet in

both lines. This is because the stressed and unstressed pattern is repeated twice.

From the explanation, it means that the first line is deviated in order to have the

same metrical pattern as the previous line.

The second example is in the following lines:

Tell me all your secrets

Lookin’ like you need it

Those lines are in the song “I Got You”. The first line has no subject since it is an

imperative sentence. The second line has no subject as well and this is a deviated

sentence. The second line is supposed to be You are looking like you need it. As it

is discussed above, the subject you is chosen since the singer communicate with

the second person you in the song. The deviation in the sentence is in order to

make the same metrical pattern as in the first line. The metrical patterns of the two

sentences are:


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/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ

Tell me | all your | secrets

/ ˇ / ˇ / ˇ

Lookin’ | like you | need it

From the explanation above it can be observed that both sentences are

bigun with stressed syllables. Then, they are followed by unstressed syllables.

This means that the pattern is called trochaic. Besides, the stressed and unstressed

pattern is repeated three times. It means the lines have three feet and they are

called trochaic trimeter.


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CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION

In this part the researcher gives the conclusion of the two main

discussions as the answer of two problems. The first problem is to find the types

of grammatical deviation in five songs of Bebe Rexha. Those songs are “I’m a

Mess”, “Me, Myself and I”, “I Got You”, “The Way I Are” and “Meant to be. The

second problem is to describe how the phonological effects are created as the

result of the grammatical deviations in five Bebe Rexha’s songs.

In the first problem, researcher finds that there is only one type of

grammatical deviation which is syntactical deviation. In syntactical deviation, the

researcher finds seven grammatical deviation processes which are omission,

deviation of verb, double negation, deviation of noun, deviation of article,

deviation of preposition and overgeneralization. There are 39 deviations of

omission, 5 deviations of verb, 2 double negations, 1 deviation of noun, 1

deviation of article, 1 deviation of preposition and 1 overgeneralization.

Therefore, the total number of the grammatical deviation is 50.

Grammatical deviation process that has the highest number is omission.

The omission occurs in all songs of Bebe Rexha. In this study, there are five types

of omission in the songs which are omission of subject, omission of article,

omission of modal auxiliary, omission of linking verb, omission of preposition

and omission of object. Among the omission processes, omission of subject has


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the highest frequency compared to other omission. Besides, the deviation of verb

occurs in two songs of Bebe Rexha which are “I’m a Mess” and “The Way I Are”.

The double negation occurs in two songs of Bebe Rexha as well. Those songs are

“Meant to be” and “I’m a Mess”. The deviation of noun only occurs in “Me,

Myself and I”. Just like the deviation of noun, the deviation of article only found

in one song which is “The Way I Are”. The deviation of preposition and

overgeneralization also occur in one song. The song is the same which is “Me,

Myself and I”.

The grammatical deviations in the five songs are made by Bebe Rexha on

purpose. In the second problem, the researcher finds that the grammatical

deviations occurs in five songs of Bebe Rexha make some phonological effects.

Those phonological effects are rhyme and meter. There are two grammatical

deviation processes that create rhyme which are the deviation of verb and the

deviation of noun. There are two sentences that have deviation of verb in two

songs. The songs are “I’m a Mess and “The Way I Are”. Besides, there is one

sentence with deviation of noun in “Me, Myself and I”.

The second phonological effect is meter or the metrical pattern. There is

only one grammatical deviation process which is omission that creates the right

meter. That omission that creates meter occurs in three songs of Bebe Rexha. The

first song is “I Got You”, the second is “I’m a Mess” and the third is “Me, Myself

and I”.

As the final point, the researcher finds the type of grammatical deviation

and the phonological effects which are rhyme and meter in five Bebe Rexha’s


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songs. The grammatical deviations made by Bebe Rexha in her songs are intended

to make her songs to be more beautiful and more appealing to hear by making the

lyrics rhymed each other and by creating the same metrical pattern. Besides, this

research gives a proof that stylistic approach can be used to analyze song since

song is similar to poetry.

In this part, the researcher suggests other researchers to conduct the

different analysis with the same object in order to improve the analysis using

stylistic approach. From the four levels of stylistics, other researchers can possibly

use the other levels in their research. Moreover, the researcher encourages other

researchers to analyze the object with theory of deviation except the grammatical

deviation. It can be lexical deviation, phonological deviation, graphological

deviation, semantic deviation, dialectical deviation, deviation of register and

deviation of historical period. Since every researcher has the different way to

analyze, the discussion in their researches would be more interesting.


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APPENDICES

Appendix 1: Omission of Subject in Bebe Rexha’s Songs

Ommision of Subject


“Me, Myself

and I”

Made it right here 'cause I'm sick

with it Cudi

I made it right here

because I’m sick with it

Cudi

Get what I want when I want I get what I want when I

want

Understand what I'm speaking on I understand what I’m

speaking on

Got me for life I got me for life

Keeps me alive It keeps me alive

Say "fuck y'all" to all of y'all faces I say “fuck y’all” to all of

y’all faces

Celebrate nightly and everyone

rages

I celebrate it nightly and

everyone rages

Swimming in liquor I am swimming in liquor

Don't want to work for it They don’t want to work

for it

Pray the lord, my soul to take I pray to the Lord, my soul

to take

Know I'm great I know I’m great

Having dreams that I'm folding cake I am having dreams that I

am folding a cake

“The Way I

Are”

Gonna live it up I am going to live it up

Don't matter who you are I don’t matter who you are

Pop a couple xans with somebody I pop a couple xans with

somebody

Throw a bunch of bands arms get

tired

I throw a bunch of bands

arms get tired

Gotta use a bedroom for a closet I am going to use a

bedroom for a closet

Got a whole bedroom I got a whole bedroom

Kiss both boobs right before I sign

'em

I kiss both boobs right

before I sign them

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Omission of Modal Auxiliary


“The Way I

Are”

Roll it up ‘cause we so ill You roll it up because

we are so ill

“Me, Myself

and I”

A Stella Maxwell right beside of me A Stella Maxwell is

right beside me


Can't dance but kinda grind 'em I cannot dance but I kind

of grind them

Roll it up 'cause we so ill We roll it up because we

are so ill

“I Got You” Lookin' like you need it You are looking like you

need it

Tell you no lies I tell you no lies

Always over thinkin' I am always over thinking

Don't have to be so guarded We don’t have to be so

guarded

Tell a lie for you I would tell a lie for you

Take a shot for you I would take a shot for

you

“Meant to be” No need to go nowhere fast We do not need to go

anywhere fast

See where this thing goes We will see where this

things goes

“I’m a Mess” Have a drink on me cheers to the

failing

They have a drink on me


Ommision of Article


“Me, Myself

and I”

And as far as I can see I just need

privacy

And as far as I can see I

just need a privacy

I just need space I just need a space

I'm folding cake I’m folding a cake

It's no debate It is not a debate


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Omission of Linking Verb


“The Way I

Are”

I be right behind her spinal I will be right before

her spinal

Omission of Preposition


“Me, Myself

and I”


I pray to the Lord, my

soul to take

Omission of Object

Song Grammatical Deviation Graamatical

“Me, Myself

and I”

Celebrate nightly and everyone rages.

I celebrate it nightly

and everyone rages

Deviation of Verb


“I’m a Mess” Pretty sure he don’t wanna be my

baby

Pretty sure he does not

want to be my baby

He don’t love me

He does not love me

That’s what my therapist say That is what my

therapist says

“The Way I

Are”

Love me the way I are You love me the way I

am

Every time she dance it’s exotic Every time she dances

it is exotic

Double Negation


“Meant to

be”

No need to go nowhere fast You do not need to go

anywhere fast

“I’m a Mess” I don’t trust no one around us I do not trust anyone

around us


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Deviation of Noun


“Me, Myself

and I”

Plus a whole lot of tree Plus a whole lot of

trees

Deviation of Article


“The Way I

Are”

We can turn this dance floor to a

island

We can turn this dance

floor to an island

Deviation of Preposition


“Me, Myself

and I”


A Stella Maxwell is

right beside me

Overgeneralization


“Me, Myself

and I”

It’s no debate

It’s not a debate


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Appendix 2: Phonological Effects In Bebe Rexha’s Songs

No Lyrics Grammatical

Deviation

Processes

Phonological Effects

Rhyme Meter

1. No need to go nowhere

fast

Omission of

subject

2. See where this thing goes Omission of

subject

3. Have a drink on me cheers

to the failing

Omission of

subject

V

4. Gonna live it up Omission of

subject

5. Don't matter who you are Omission of

subject

6. Pop a couple xans with

somebody

Omission of

subject

7. Throw a bunch of bands

arms get tired

Omission of

subject

8. Gotta use a bedroom for a

closet

Omission of

subject

9. Got a whole bedroom on

the private

Omission of

subject

10. Kiss both boobs right

before I sign 'em

Omission of

subject

11. Can't dance but kinda

grind 'em

Omission of

subject

12. Roll it up 'cause we so ill Omission of

subject

13. Made it right here 'cause

I'm sick with it Cudi

Omission of

subject

14. get what I want when I

want

Omission of

subject

15. Understand what I'm

speaking

Omission of

subject

16. Got me for life Omission of

subject

17. Keeps me alive Omission of

subject


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Lyrics Grammatical

Deviation

processes


Rhyme Meter

18. Say "fuck y'all" to all of

y'all faces

Omission of

subject

19. Celebrate nightly and

everyone rages

Omission of

subject

20. Swimming in liquor my

liver is muddy

Omission of

subject

21. don't want to work for it Omission of

subject

22. Pray the lord, my soul to

take

Omission of

subject

23. Know I'm great but I’m

broke as hell

Omission of

subject

V

24. Having dreams that I'm

folding cake

Omission of

subject

25. Lookin' like you need it Omission of

subject

V

26. Tell you no lies Omission of

subject

V

27. Always over thinkin' Omission of

subject

V

28. Don't have to be so

guarded

Omission of

subject

29. Tell a lie for you Omission of

subject

30. Take a shot for you Omission of

subject

31. And as far as I can see I

just need privacy

Omission of article

32. I just need space to do me Omission of article

33. Having dreams that I'm

folding cake

Omission of article

34. it's no debate Omission of article

35. Roll it up ‘cause we so ill Omission of

linking verb

36 A Stella Maxwell right

beside of me

Omission of

linking verb


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Lyrics Grammatical

Deviation

processes


Rhyme Meter

37. I be right behind her spinal Omission of modal

auxiliary

38. Celebrate nightly and

everyne rages

Omission of object

39. Ray the lord my soul to

take

Omission of

preposition

40. Pretty sure he don’t wanna

be my baby

Deviation of verb

41. He don’t love me Deviation of verb

42. That’s what my therapist

say

Deviation of verb V

43. Love me the way I are Deviation of verb V

44. Every time she dance it’s

exotic

Deviation of verb

45. No need to go nowhere

fast

Double negation

46. I don’t trust no one around

us

Double negation

47. A Stella Maxwell right

beside of me

Deviation of

preposition

48. Plus a whole lot of tree Deviation of noun V

49. We can turn this dance

floor to a island

Deviation of

article

50. it's no debate Overgeneralization


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Appendix 3: Lyrics of “Me, Myself and I”

[Chorus]

Oh, it's just me, myself and I

Solo ride until I die

'Cause I got me for life

Oh I don't need a hand to hold

Even when the night is cold

I got that fire in my soul

[Verse 1]

And as far as I can see

I just need privacy

Plus a whole lot of tree,

fuck all this modesty

I just need space to do me get a world that they're tryna see


A Ferrari I'm buyin' three

A closet of Saint Laurent,

get what I want when I want

'Cause this hunger is driving me, yeah

I just need to be alone,

I just need to be at home

Understand what I'm speaking on

if time is money I need a loan

But regardless I'll always keep keepin' on

Fuck fake friends,

we don't take L's we just make M's

While y'all follow, we just make trends

I'm right back to work when that break ends

[Chorus]

Oh, it's just me, myself and I

Solo ride until I die

'Cause I got me for life

(Got me for life, yeah)

Oh I don't need a hand to hold

Even when the night is cold

I got that fire in my soul

[Post-Chorus]

I don't need anything to get me through the night

Except the beat that's in my heart

Yeah, it's keeping me alive

(Keeps me alive)


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I don't need anything to make me satisfied (You know)

'Cause the music fills me good

and it gets me every time

[Verse 2]

Yeah, and I don't like talking to strangers

So get the fuck off me I'm anxious

I'm tryna be cool but I may just go ape shit

Say "fuck y'all" to all of y'all faces

It changes though now that I'm famous

Everyone knows how this lifestyle is dangerous

But I love it the rush is amazing

Celebrate nightly and everyone rages

I found how to cope with my anger

I'm swimming in money

Swimming in liquor my liver is muddy

But it's all good I'm still sippin' this bubbly

This shit is lovely, this shit ain't random, I didn't get lucky

Made it right here 'cause I'm sick with it Cudi

They all take the money for granted

But don't want to work for it

tell me now, isn't it funny? Nah

[Bridge]

Like ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba

Ba-ba-ba-da-ba (Yee!)

Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba

Ba-ba-ba-da-ba

Ba-ba-ba-ba-da-ba

Ba-ba-ba-da-ba

'Cause the music fills me good

and it gets me every time

[Verse 3]

Yeah, lonely nights I laid awake


My heart's become too cold to break

Know I'm great but I'm broke as hell

Having dreams that I'm folding cake

All my life I've been told to wait

But I'mma get it now, yeah it's no debate

Yeah


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Appendix 4: Lyrics of “Meant to be”

[Verse 1]

Baby, lay on back and relax,

kick your pretty feet up on my dash


let's enjoy right here where we at

[Pre-Chorus1]

Who knows where this road is supposed to lead

We got nothing but time

As long as you're right here next to me,

everything's gonna be alright

[Chorus]

If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be

Baby, just let it be



So, won't you ride with me, ride with me?

See where this thing goes


Baby, if it's meant to be

[Verse 2]

I don't mean to be so uptight,

but my heart's been hurt a couple times

By a couple guys that didn't treat me right

I ain't gon' lie, ain't gonna lie

'Cause I'm tired of the fake love,

show me what you're made of

Boy, make me believe

[Pre-Chorus 2]

But hold up, girl, don't you know you're beautiful?

And it's easy to see

[Chorus]










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So, c'mon ride with me, ride with me


So, c'mon ride with me, ride with me


[Bridge]

Maybe we do

Maybe we don't

Maybe we will

Maybe we won't

[Chorus]

But if it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be


If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be (c'mon)

Baby, just let it be (let's go)





[Outro]






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Appendix 5: Lyrics of “I’m a Mess”

[Verse 1]

Everything's been so messed up here lately

Pretty sure he don't wanna be my baby

Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me

He don't love me, he don't love me

But that's okay

'Cause I love me, yeah, I love me

Yeah, I love me

Yeah, I love myself anyway

Hey

[Pre-Chorus]


Everything's gonna be okay

It's gonna be a good, good, life

That's what my therapist say


Everything's gonna be just fine

It's gonna be a good, good life

[Chorus]

I'm a mess, I'm a loser

I'm a hater, I'm a user

I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new

I'm obsessed, I'm embarrassed

I don't trust no one around us

I'm a mess for your love, it ain't new

[Verse 2]

Nobody shows up unless I'm paying

Have a drink on me cheers to the failing

Oh, he don't love me, he don't love me

He don't love me, he don't love me

But that's okay

'Cause I love me, yeah, I love me

Yeah, I love me

Yeah, I love myself anyway

Hey


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Appendix 6: Lyrics of “The Way I Are”

[Intro]

I'm sorry, I'm not the most pretty

I'll never ever sing like Whitney

Ooh, but I still wanna dance with somebody

(Tunechi)

[Verse 1]

So lets let all hearts bleed, 'til they turn to rust

Gonna live it up, 'cause it's dangerous

No, I don't wanna play the part (Amen)

I just wanna dance with somebody (Amen)

I just wanna dance with somebody (yeah)

[Chorus]

I just wanna dance with somebody


It could be anybody,

tell me, are you that somebody?

Don't matter who you are,

just love me the way I are



[Verse 2]


But I could never ever dance like Bobby

You can dance, I'mma watch your body

I just wanna stand right behind it

I just want a chance with somebody

Pop a couple xans with somebody

Every time she dance it's exotic

Throw a bunch of bands arms get tired

I'm the God I just want a goddess

Gotta use a bedroom for a closet

Got a whole bedroom, on the private

I know her body inside, out science

Kiss both boobs right before I sign 'em

Can't dance but kinda grind 'em

Yeah, I be right behind her, spinal

We can turn this dance floor to a island

[Chorus]


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I just wanna dance with somebody (Mula)


It could be anybody,

tell me, are you that somebody?

(Tunechi)

Don't matter who you are,

just love me the way I are



[Bridge]

Bloody noses, speeding cars

Lethal doses, desperate hearts

Roll it up 'cause we so ill

Heaven knows we love the thrill

No, I don't wanna play the part

I jupt wanna dance with somebody



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Appendix 7: Lyrics of “I Got You”

[Verse 1]

I can see you hurting

I've been through the same thing

Baby, don't you worry, I got you

I just wanna know you

Tell me all your secrets

Lookin' like you need it

[Pre-Chorus]

'Cause I got you, you, oh

You, I got you, I got you



[Chorus]

We can get high, oh, nah-nah-nah

We can get low, oh, nah-nah-nah

Let me be your friend

Baby, let me in

Tell you no lies, oh, nah-nah-nah

We can get lost, oh, nah-nah-nah

Take it all off, oh, nah-nah-nah


Baby, let me in

Give it to me all, oh, nah-nah-nah

[Verse 2]

Tell me what you're thinkin'

Always over thinkin'

I just wanna love you, I got you

Don't have to be so guarded

Let's finish what we started

It's all I ever wanted

[Pre-Chorus]



[Chorus]

We can get high, oh, nah-nah-nah

We can get low, oh, nah-nah-nah


Baby, let me in

Tell you no lies, oh, nah-nah-nah


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We can get lost, oh, nah-nah-nah

Take it all off, oh, nah-nah-nah


Baby, let me in

Give it to me all, oh, nah-nah-nah

[Post-Chorus]



[Bridge]

I'd do the time for you

Tell a lie for you

Yeah, baby, that's what I do

I'd walk the line for you

Take a shot for you

Yeah, baby, that's what I do

'Cause I got you, it's true

I'd die for you, I'd die for you

I got you


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