


But does it matter who is singing to them?Ī new U of T Scarborough study highlights that when it comes to music, infants prefer to listen to familiar tunes – regardless of whether their mom or a stranger is singing. If they are able to improve their skill in interpersonal meaning, they would have been able to appreciate any kinds of literary works.Early life for infants is surrounded by music and songs, mostly sung by family or caregivers. This knowledge is also significant for English student. Thus, the English teachers should master the knowledge of interpersonal meaning especially and functional grammar generally to help them in deciding good materials for the students. The singer played a role to give information and the audiences were invited to accept the information given about the change wanted by American people, about the dream to heal the world, and about the will to reach prosperity. It was a process of exchanging information. It can also be found that the text found in the lyrics is one way or direct communication. The last step was drawing the conclusions based on the findings.Īfter analyzing the lyrics, it can be found that the all clauses belong to declarative and all the clauses are in the form of statements.

The clauses then were classified based on their mood types to figure out the speech roles of each clause. The analysis of the data used the following steps: First, the lyrics were divided into clauses and then analyzed through the mood system. All the clauses were taken and then analyzed to figure out the realization of the tenor and reveal the possible purpose of the song. The data of the study were in the form of clauses of the lyrics in Yes, We Can that is sung by Will.I.Am and first released on 2 February, 2008 by and also on You Tube. While, from library, some references and text books related to the subject matter were selected. The data of the study is from the lyrics of Yes, We Can that is gained from. The techniques are choosing, documenting, and then analyzing the data to draw conclusion. While the speech roles indicate the possible purpose of the song. The tenor found in the song was realized through mood system and mood types. In this study, the discussion was limited by finding out the answer of these questions: how is the interpersonal meaning (tenor) realized in this song? And what is(are) the possible purpose(s) of this song? Qualitative descriptive research was used in this study. The topic of this study is the analysis of the interpersonal meaning of Yes, We Can song and its pedagogical implication.
