LANGUAGE STYLE OF MINANG'S POP SONG "KONCO LAMO" ON THE YOUTUBE CHANNEL “MAK LEPOH”

Abstract

This research examines the language style of the Minang pop song "Konco Lamo" by Mak Lepoh which can be found on the video sharing site, YouTube. Mak Lepoh named his channel with the same name. Mak Lepoh's songs can be said to be humorous songs because there are many jokes made by Mak Lepoh in his songs. These jokes are often presented in the form of dialogue. It is called dialogue, because Mak Lepoh is not alone in singing. There are other people, namely Cakra, Lepai, and Etek Kadai. And dialogue actually becomes dominant compared to lyric singing. On this basis, this research focuses on language styles in the dialogue in Mak Lepoh's songs. Armed with the theory of stylistic elements: sound, lexical, grammatical, imagery and imagery, as explained by Burhan Nurgiantoro, this qualitative research found that the dialogue elements in Mak Lepoh's songs are dominated by the language style of smile, metaphor, personification, repetition, hyperbole, irony, and sarcasm. These language styles are used by Mak Lepoh as a means of achieving humor.