Abstract :
To understand the degree between the positive and the negative poles of
the language in Song Lyrics of the Album, an appropriate way is needed. Then,
functional grammar is the best way to analyze Song Lyrics of album. One of the
materials in Functional Grammar is about modality. The term of modality to refer
to all positioning by speakers about probability, usuality, obligation and
inclination. From the explanation above, the writer is interested to conduct the
research that analyzes in the album of Brithney Spears entitled “Oops..! I Did It
Again†and Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled “Chrysalisâ€
After formulating the statement of the problems, the writer describes the
objective of the research are (1) To find out types of Modalityused in the songs’
lyrics in the album of Brithney Spears entitled “Oops..! I Did It Again†and
Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled “Chrysalis (2) To find out degrees of modality used
in the songs’ lyrics in the album of Brithney Spears entitled “Oops..! I Did It
Again†and Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled “Chrysalisâ€.
The design of this research is descriptive qualitative research. It describes
types and degrees of modality found in the album of Brithney Spears entitled
“Oops..! I Did It Again†and Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled “Chrysalisâ€
The result of this research are (1) The types of modality used in the song
lyric of the songs’ lyrics in the album of Britney Spears entitled “Oops..! I Did It
Again†are 29 (Probability), 10 (Usuality), 10 (Obligation) and 36 (Inclination)
and Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled “Chrysalis†are 26 (Probability), 6 (Usuality), 9
(Obligation) and 25 (Inclination) and (2) The degrees of used in the song lyric of
the songs’ lyrics in the album of Britney Spears entitled “Oops..! I Did It Againâ€
are 17 (High), 37 (Medium) and 31 (Low) and Anggun Cipta Sasmi entitled
“Chrysalis†are 13 (High), 31 (Medium) and 22 (Low)
The writer provides several suggestions; (1) For the lecturers, they are
suggested to use real texts seems like; articles, journals, letters, speeches, movie
scripts or songs' lyrics as what has explained by the writer in her research to
develop their students' abilities in analyzing modality. (2) For the students, they
should master the ability of analyzing modality of real texts like song lyrics that
are very popular in students' environments because modality is one of important
way to make good compositions or utterances. (3) For the further researchers, they
are suggested to make other researches in other field of discussions or conduct
their researches more specific.