Personalized Speech Actions in Song Lyrics by Bernadya: An Inclusivity Perspective

This study aims to describe personal illocutionary speech acts in song lyrics by Bernadya. The theory used is Yule's speech act theory. This theory is used to determine the type of personal illocutionary speech acts and the function of Bernadya's song lyrics. The descriptive qualitative research approach with discourse analysis focuses on how language is used to construct meaning in a social context. Data sources are two song lyrics by Bernadya. Data collection used the method of listening and noting. The results of data analysis show that Bernadya's song lyrics have four illocutionary speech acts, namely 48.6% representative speech acts, 31.4% expressive speech acts, 17.1% directive speech acts, and 2.9% commissive speech acts. The use of personal in Bernadya's song lyrics is the second person singular at 50%, 45.7% first person singular, second person plural and third person plural at 2.2% each. These results show that Bernadya's song lyrics contain statements and express feelings, the contents of the heart that have been experienced by many people and are very relate to the lives of teenagers using the second person singular because the author deliberately wants to explore "seseorang" in the song lyrics. The author is positioned as the first person singular and represents the feelings of teenagers in general.