Abstract:
This study deals with Process and Circumstances in the Katy Perry’s songs lyrics. The
objectives of the study are to describe the types of Process and Circumstances, to find
the dominant type of Process and Circumstances. The source of data for this research
was taken from Katy Perry’s songs lyrics. The research design of this study was
qualitative research. The technique of data collection was collecting the lyrics, reading
the lyrics, marking the lyrics, identifying the lyrics and classifying types of process and
circumstance of Katy Perry’s songs that has relation with the problem discussed. The
researcher was applied the theory of Miles & Huberman to analyzed this study. They
were data reduction, data display and drawing and verifying conclusions. The result
show that the types process in the Katy Perry’s songs lyrics found that: material was 19
(19%), mental was 30 (30%), relational was 45 (45%), verbal 3 (3%), behavioural was 2
(2%), existential was 1 (1%) and the types of Circumstances were found that: location
was 13 (50%) and manner was 11 (42,31%), cause was 2 (7,69%). The dominant type
of process was relational and the dominant type of circumstances was location that
occur in the Katy Perry’s songs lyrics.
