The Lexical Features Linguistic Features Conveyed in Anti Flag Protest Song Lyrics.
Nazi S6.C, right wing S6.C, republican convention S6.C, a greedy gang of liars S7.C, war profiteering whores S7.C, and Uncle Sam S7.C below.
9 First World War veterans slaughtered by General
EisenhowerS1.C5
10 This machine kills fucking fascists S6.C6. 11 You don’t have to be a Racist S6.C7a
12 You don’t have to be a Nazi, fuck S6.C7b 13 You spew your right wing rhetoric when we got your attention
S6.C9
14 You’ve mistaken the punk scene for the republican convention
S6.C10
In extract 9, the use of ‘General Eisenhower’ is as the model of the American president brutality. During his presidency, Eisenhower managed Cold
War-era tensions with the Soviet Union under the looming threat of nuclear weapons. He sent many troops to the war. The term “fascists” used in 10 and
“racist” and “Nazi” in 11 and 12 have similarity. It is about the belief of being extremely proud for the race. Fascist is “someone who extremely proud of country
and race, and in which political opposition is not allowed”. Racist is “someone who believes that other races are not as good as their own and therefore treats
them unfairly”CALD3 while Nazi is “someone who is cruel or who demands an unreasonable degree of obedience, or someone who has extreme and unreasonable
beliefs about race”CALD3. The negative side of those beliefs is the adherents are passionate to fight for their race even to die for.
The next term, “right wing” in 13, the “republican” in 14 shared about the political beliefs. The right wing is a traditional opinion that believes on low
taxes, private ownership of industry property, less help for the poor. The republican belief is about cutting the government spending and eliminating the
government waste. The society has to be responsible for the pocketbook of themselves and the government’s.
Those special terms have shown the way the authoritarianism works through the nationalism. The authoritarian government use society’s obedience for the
country to ruin their life.
Table 4.17 Excerpts of the Word-Choice 3
No. Song Titles Special Terms
S2. Kill the Rich:
Put the trigger to the man, crashing down until they’re all dead S6.
Got the Numbers:
Need a fucking revolution, got the numbers, protest against injustice state terror on the streets of the world for the disempowered,
S6. This Machine Kills Fascists:
This machine, fucking fascists S8.
What’s the Difference: March on the raise our voice
S9. Class Plague:
Capitalisms time to fall has come, have revolution
S10. Protest Song:
Take our rights back
S11. Tearing Down the Borders:
Tearing down the borders, fighting for the rights of freedom, a call – a ringing sound – a freedom sound, a voice in heart,
S12. You can Kill the Protestor but You can’t Kill the Protest: protest,
Protestors, bullets can’t silence ideas
S14. No Borders, No Nations:
Change the world, make a change S15
911 for Peace: A plea for peace world peace, oppressors of the world, leaders of
nations, corporate profit takers, the everyday citizen, the competition
The existence of social movement ideology mostly appears in the action verbsverb phrases. The use of nouns to state identity is less in numbers. From
the table, the identity of government represents by terms such as, fucking fascists PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
S6 and injustice state terror S13. Government placed as the target of the social movement
15 This machine kills fucking fascistsS6.C6 16 You have been to our shows. You have sung our songs. Now, we are
asking you to add to each chorus you have sung and protest against injustice state terror on the streets of the world for the
disempowered S10.C2
The term, fascist 15 indicates the very powerful leader, state control being extremely proud of country and race and reject the political opposition CALD3.
Government represented as undefeated figure. The term, injustice state terror 16 represents the state; a state with an unfair system. These two conditions becomes
the trigger of masses to do revolution. Society and Anti-Flag presented as the actor of the social movement. The
identity represented through the terms as like, the protestors and the rebel S15
17 You can kill the protestor but you can’t kill the protest. S12.C4 18 You can murder the rebel but you can’t murder the rebellion.
S12.CC5 The two bold terms are quite similar in meaning. Both of them are about the
disagreement. However, they also assorted in action. If a protest is typically done by standing somewhere, shouting, carrying signs etc. CALD3 then the rebel is
more to use force to defeat the people in authority. As the output of their disagreement, the rebels behave differently CALD3. Those terms are two types
of doing social movement. Another terms which are identified as social movement are like march S8,
change the world S9, revolution S10, a plea for world peace S11, fighting for the rights of freedom S12, Got the numbers S13.C7.
19 So, we march on to raise our voice because we are left with no
choice. S8.C8
20 I always thought if you want to change the world, then you have to
start with yourselfS14.C1
21 revolution, it’s time to make the rich pay S9.C13 22 This is a plea for peace world peace to the oppressors of the world
and to the leaders of nations, corporate profit takers, to the everyday citizen S15.C6
23 We are fighting for the rights of freedom S12.C5. 24 We have got the numbersS6.C7
The portrayal of social movement is like marching on 19 and fighting for the rights of freedom 23. About the march, it mostly conducted in masses by
walking through a public place expressing disapproval of something or with someone CALD3. Fighting for the rights of freedom is the common purpose of
doing the social movement. The two further terms, change the world 20 and revolution 21 are synonyms. It is about to do a movement as the product of the
disagreement. As the social movement is typically massive, thus, the numbers needed. The italic term refers to people who do social movement. The pleas for
peace world peace 22 signals the protest song lyric as a medium of propaganda. The speaker tries to persuade the listeners for joining the social
movement.