The Transitivity Of Lewis Capaldi's Songs Lyrics In Divinely Unispired To A Hellish Extent Album

Abstract

This research examined the ideational meaning of Lewis Capaldi’s songs lyrics in Divinely Uninspired to A Hellish Extent album. The objectives of this research are to identify transitivity elements in Lewis Capaldi’s songs lyrics, then analyze them to get the ideational meaning. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative with three songs lyrics in the album as main source of data. The result of the analysis are 63 data and 93 transitivity processes. The data are realized by transitivity system that are divided into 52 relational processes, 17 mental processes, 17 material processes, 6 verbal processes, and 1 existential process. Lewis Capaldi’s songs lyrics mostly used relational process to represent the relation and quality of things and phenomena that had been experienced by him. Furthermore, mental process is the second dominant process in the songs lyrics. It means that Lewis Capaldi as the song writer also wanted to describe his feeling, thought and desire when he had many problems. He wanted the listener to know his regret while hoping his relationship would get better.