Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)

Vulgar and Obscene Terms in Indonesian Song Lyrics (The Reflection Language Creativity)

Authors
Dewi Kusumaningsih, Djatmika Djatmika, Riyadi Santosa, H.D. Edi Subroto
Corresponding Author
Dewi Kusumaningsih
Available Online August 2018.
DOI
10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Keywords
vulgar, obscene. language social creativity
Abstract

Language is dynamic, social, complex, and multimodal, patterned and purposive just as all these kids of behavior. It is characterized from the language creativity emerging in the society as both linguistics and social phenomena. This article brings out the phenomenon of vulgar terms used in Indonesian song lyrics which is pondered belonging as the social language creativity. This research aims to describe the variation of vulgar terms found in Indonesian song lyrics. It takes 50 titles of Indonesian songs popularized between 1998 up to 2017 as the data sources. The data collected comprised of vocabularies and other forms of linguistic unit containing the phenomena of romance, loving, husband and wife relationship and family. The application of content analysis in this article is directed efficiently to describe various kinds of vocabularies or terms representing those phenomena. It focuses mainly on the transformation of general vocabularies toward explicit vulgar and obscene. The research results show that there are variation vocabulary starting implied, express, than clearly explicit and vulgar of various vocabulary who refers to romance, husband and wife relationship, and family.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Fourth Prasasti International Seminar on Linguistics (Prasasti 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
August 2018
ISBN
10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.11
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.11How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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