Lexical Cohesion and Grammatical Cohesion in Song Lyrics “Untuk Kita Renungkan”, “Lakon Anak-Anak Bencana”, and “Kesaksian Anak Sampah” by Ebiet G.Ade

The purpose of this study is to reveal the
lexical cohesion contained in the lyrics of an
environmental theme song by Ebiet G. Ade. The lyrics
of the songs studied were entitled “Untuk Kita
Renungkan”, “Lakon Anak-Anak Bencana”, and
“Kesaksian Anak Sampah” and reveal the grammatical
cohesion contained in the lyrics of of the three song
lyrics. The method used is this research is listening
method by listening to the three songs followed by
recording the fragments of the song lyrics that contain
lexical and grammatical cohesion in the lyrics of the
song. Data analysis uses discourse theory, especially
lexical cohesion and grammatical cohesion. The results
of the study show that in the lyrics of the songs “Untuk
Kita Renungkan”, “Lakon Anak-Anak Bencana”, and
“Kesaksian Anak Sampah” use lexical cohesion in the
form of repetition, synonyms, antonyms, collocations,
hyponyms, equivalences. The grammatical cohesion
used in the three song lyrics are reference, substitution
and deletion. The use of the two cohesion markers
makes the song lyrics easy to understand.