Abstract:
This study deals with the use of coordinating conjunctions in lover album by
Taylor Swift. This study aimed to find out the most dominant type of coordinating
conjunction, to elaborate the realization of types of coordinating conjunction in
that album and the reason for using the dominant type of coordinating conjunction
in that album. The source of data was the script of Lover Album. Descriptive
qualitative research was applied in this data. The data were classified into types of
the coordinating conjunction. The data were analyzed based on the types of the
coordinating conjunction. The study found that there were five types of
coordinating conjunction, they are For, And, But, Or, and So. There were 242
coordinating conjunctions in that album. The percentages of coordinating
conjunction were 22 conjunctions(9,09%) for For, 151 conjunctions (62,39%) for
And, 52 conjunctions (21,49%) for But, 5 conjunctions (2,07%) for Or, and 12
conjunctions (4,96%) for So. The realization of types of coordinating conjunction
occurred because the lyric has the grammatical reasons. The speakers used types
of coordinating conjunctions for indicating something that has many references
depends on speaker‟s means which can explain words or sentences to be
understood listener. The dominant type of coordinating conjunction found in
Lover Album was 150(61,98%) for And conjunction because more than the other
types as the way to connect word to word or sentence to sentence
