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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Language is a fundamental medium for people to communicate to each other. It is a system which helps people to deliver the information.
Language has a prominent function to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas. It triggers people to carry
out messages and understand them. Furthermore, language enables people
to denote a personal’s identity. People can communicate with others by using their own style of language. It will trigger
people to create language varieties while conveying the message. The influence of language towards the
personal ’s identity is quite powerful. Language can assess
either their culture or their background through people’s utterances. The example is
by choosing certain words that become a characteristic of a group. Grammar is one of language components. Radford defines that grammar
functions as a tool to help people understand a language. Its goal is to make them know the language like the native speaker does 1997: 2. Grammar contains the rules
of combining words, phrases, and sentence structures. People are encouraged to construct sentence structures properly while they are conveying a message.
Moreover, grammar provides the knowledge for people in order to be able to understand the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in a language.
While conveying the message, people unconsciously make errors in their utterances. Error is the deviation process for learners to develop rules of language
Corder,1967: 52. It means that the mistakes people make ask them to understand more rules of certain languages. However, there are many factors causing the errors,
for instance is the lack of knowledge. It will affect their competence in the process of communication.
This research aims to analyze errors of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences found in Will I Am
’s songs. The research employs three distinctive studies as the principle of theoretical grounds. The studies include morphology, syntax and
sociolinguistics. Morphology and syntax will give a profound understanding towards the categorization of grammar errors
in Will I Am ’s songs. The research overwhelms
eleven types of grammar errors such as noun phrase errors, verb phrase errors and word order errors. Furthermore, the processes of grammar errors are categorized into
four types of strategies namely omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. Through a sociolinguistic study, the research aims to see how the language
use in Will I Am ’s songs contributes to the errors. Will I Am uses African American
Vernacular English AAVE that influences a language in his songs. There are five characteristics of AAVE that distinguish them from Standard English, such as uses of
the form be and double negations. The categorizations show the vernacular system affect a sentence structure formation.
By conducting two different studies, the data can be seen
through two different perspectives.
B. Problem Formulation
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