protest while the Anti-Flag’s position notify the identity of the group in doing protest.
Besides grammar features, lexical features is also included in the analysis. The analysis focuses on the signal words. The words which signal an event or an
issue that the spekear presentes. The speaker surely has word-choices to represent a reality. The words also indicate the ideology of the speaker.
S13.C6 We dont need your war machine, or your filthy blood stained dollars.
The bold word are the speaker’s word choice to present an event or issue. The word, war machine could be the situation of war while the word, filthy blood
stained dollars could be an economical problem. After doing the grammatical and lexical features, the clauses are categorized
based on the ideologies. The ideologies are determined based on the characteristics of the ideology. How the analysis works shown using the example
S5.C6, S5.C8 and S8.C8 above. The first example noticeably contains the ideology of anti-authoritarian capitalism. It is because the ideology shows the
authority of government to use the society the common people for their own needs to settle their scores. It is called as “Anti”- to obviously show the protest
of Anti-Flag against the government. The second example reveals the ideology of anti-authoritarian nationalism. The lexical term, national brainwashing indicates
the ideology. The “Anti” shows from their choice to fight. The third example reveals the social movement ideology. It shows the society response to attack the
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CHAPTER 4 ANALYSIS RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
The chapter is the analysis results and discussion of the two research questions of the study. They are the linguistic features use by Anti-Flag to present
the ideology and the main ideologies conveyed by Anti-Flag in their song lyrics. The chapter consists of two major sections. The first section is the discussion of
the first research question while the second section is to discuss the second research question.
The first section, the linguistic features, is discussed in two subsections namely grammatical features and lexical features. Analyzing the grammatical
features help to show the way Anti-Flag present their ideology in clauses. In the other side, the lexical features help to show the word choice use by Anti-Flag to
signal the ideology. The second section, the ideologies, is discussed in two subsections. The first is about the concept of the ideology. It presents the term and
the characteristic of the ideology. The second is about the social issues. It portrays the historical, political or the social background of the ideologies. The relation of
the two sections is the first section provides linguistic evidence of how the hidden ideologies are unmasked from the song lyrics. The second section supports the
linguistic evidence by showing its existence through the social issues. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
4.1 Linguistic Features Conveyed in Anti Flag Protest Song Lyrics.
This part is about the microstructure analysis. It shows the linguistic evidence in revealing the ideologies conveyed by Anti-Flag. The linguistic
features will be analyzed are the grammatical features and the lexical features. The analysis of the grammatical features uses the Systemic Functional Grammar
proposed by Halliday. The analysis focuses on the transitivity, modality and pronoun. In transitivity analysis, the clause is analyzed to represent experience; to
describe the events and the states of the real and world. In modality and pronoun analysis, the clause is analyzed to find out the speakers’ intention and judgments.
It is to see how the speakers persuade the society to support their intention.
4.1.1 The Grammatical Features
The grammatical features are the syntactic system consists of word or phrase in the context of particular clause or sentence. The analysis of grammatical
features is significant since Halliday 1985 states that grammar explains everything with the reference to how language is used. The analysis of
grammatical features on the present study focuses on analyzing the transitivity, modality and pronoun. It analyzes the clause taken from the song lyrics.
4.1.1.1 Transitivity Analysis
In transitivity system, the meaningful grammatical unit is the clause which expresses what’s happening, what’s being done, what’s felt and what the state is
and so on. The transitivity analysis consists of analyzing six processes namely, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
material processes, relational processes, mental processes, verbal processes, behavioral processes and existential processes. To begin with, the transitivity
analysis was conducted in the song lyrics of Anti-Flag. The analysis of the processes is over 289 clauses.
The material processes as the foremost transitivity’s type are assorted into the action of doing and the action of happening. The analysis of this process aims
at revealing the three points; who the participants are, what the actions are and what the circumstances are. The participants are divided into the Actor, Goal and
Beneficiary: Client and Recipient. The actions show the doing and happening. The actionof doing carried out by the powerful actor who is capable to initiate and
control the action and usually cause a change of the goal. The action of happening reveals that action has no goal. It is merely about the action of the actor. The
Circumstance is the experiential category that can co-occur at clause rank with Process and Participant and conflates with circumstantial Adjunct, usually realized by
an adverbial group or a prepositional phrase. It shows the extent, location, manner, cause, contingency, accompaniment role etc.
Some extracts provides below will be analyzed to show how the material processes help to reveal an ideology.
Table 4.1 The Excerpts of Material Processes
No. Verbs
Participants Circumstances
Actor Goal
Beneficiary
1. Is built
by The rich This whole
system -
- 2.
Enslaving A
government run by the
corporations of the world
Mothers, fathers,
sons and daughters
- -
3. Brainwash They
Us -
To be their patriotic slaves
4. Call onto
die They
Me For them
- 5.
Are fighting
We -
- For the rights
of freedom. 6.
Has to stop
WeI Greed,
envy, hate – the
competition -
-
Those six excerpts are the doing process. The excerpt first has two participants, the rich Actor and this whole system Goal. The rich denotes the
people who have large amount of money and possessions. This whole system describes the complete or not divided system. The action of building indicates the
power of the rich to affect the whole system. The second excerpt has A government run by the corporations of the world Actor and Mothers, fathers,
sons and daughters Goal as the participants. The action of enslaving shows power of the Actor towards the Goal. The Goal depicted as the powerless group;
the victim of the Actor’s performing action. From the two excerpts, the power imbalance does exist. The imbalance
happens because a group is hegemonic over other group. The participants include in the so-called powerful group are the rich and government run by the
corporations of the world while the so-called powerless group refers to mothers, fathers, sons and daughters. In powerful group, there is a controlling share
between, the rich, the government and the corporation of the world. In the excerpt, it depicts how the government as the highest authority in the state is able to get
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The power of control is typically signaled an authoritarian character. The authoritarian is about “demanding that people totally obey and refusing to allow
them freedom to act as they wish” CALD3. The notion is the powerful group demand the powerless group’s obedience and refuse their freedom.
It clearly presented through the action of enslaving. It is about forcefully controlling and keeping someone’s actions, thoughts, emotions, or life completely
CALD3. The slave refers to “a person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for them” CALD3. The groups of people who own the slaves are
usually the rich because they have money to buy their slaves, and the business and industry as they need the slaves for working. Since, the slaves has been bought,
they has no power to rebel. They have to submit their whole life to their owner and also to get minimum wages from them.
In the action of building, the power also exists. The power to build a matter expresses that action merely performed by group of people who has power. The
Goal, presents this whole system not the partly system. It indicates the great power of control by the Actor, the rich. Their power might refer to money. It is certain
for the rich to use money as their power-controlled tool. For instance, they are able to bribe to change regulation or laws.
The analysis shows that the ideologies conveyed in the excerpts are the authoritarianism and capitalism. It is authoritarianism as it presents the authority
of the a group over another group. Besides, it is capitalism because it presents some related issues, like slavery and acceptingtaking bribe. Although, they are
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about power. As the authoritarianism and capitalism is interlinked, therefore the writer would like to use the term, authoritarian capitalism. But then, since it is
protest song lyric, the notion is to protest the authoritarian capitalism. Thus, it is more appropriate to use term –anti to be –anti-authoritarian capitalism.
Back to table 4.1, the third and the fourth excerpts also carry the action of doing. The third excerpt has two participants shown by pronoun, they Actor and
us Goal. It also has an action of brainwash has meaning of “making someone believe something by repeatedly telling them that it is true and preventing any
other information from reaching them” CALD3 and the Circumstance, to be their patriotic slaves.
To determine whom the participants referred to is to analyze the action performed by the Actor to the Goal. The powerful Actor possibly performs the
action of brainwash. It is because to influence the thought of the Goal, the Actor should have authority and position. The bigger the authority owned by and the
higher the position of the Actor determine the success of doing brainwash. Furthermore, the Circumstance helps to clarify the finding. The patriotic slaves
needs to fragment into patriotic and slaves. The word, patriotic shows feeling of love for country and proud of it CALD3 while slaves are someone works for
someone else because the slaves bought and legally owned by people who buy them. Therefore, the patriotic slaves refer to a group of people who become the
servant of the country. It refers to the citizen of a country. Explicitly, the Goal, us, refer to citizens and the Actor, they refer to the government. It is because
