Process and Circumstances in The Katy Perry’s Songs Lyrics

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.