Alan Walker's Song "Who I Am": It’s Deixis and English Students’ Perception of It’s Content
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This research is aimed at identifying (a) the majority of deixis found in the song lyrics of Alan Walker’s “Who I Am” and (b) the perceptions of English students of the song about the content of the song, the message that the songwriter wants to convey, and people to address in the song lyrics. This research uses a qualitative method. The needed data were gained by (a) accessing the song and its lyrics on the internet and (b) interviewing five English students who were in the eighth semester of a private university in West Java, Indonesia. the data from the song lyrics were computed using Microsoft Excel. Meanwhile, the data from the interview was analyzed qualitatively using Miles & Hubberman's (2014) concept of qualitative data analysis. Based on the data, we found that the dominant deixis was the first person personal deixis as a subject pronoun (the pronoun “I”) consisting of 16 words, referring to the songwriter as the main subject, experiencer, doer, and performer of what is talked about in the song. Furthermore, regarding the content of the song, the participants mostly had the same view that the songwriter tried to tell listeners about his strong determination, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-efficacy, and efforts in achieving his dreams. In addition, the songwriter expected the listeners to take some positive lessons of how to achieve success.
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