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| Information Flow on the English Premier League Supporters' Mocking-Chant from the Theme and Rheme Analysis (Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistics) |
Nur Rochman Fatoni, Riyadi Santosa, Djatmika
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Abstract:
One of the interesting phenomenon in the social interaction is the correlation between participants in spoken language. There are some domains that create a close interaction between participants. One of them is sport domain. This phenomenon is still rarely uncovered in language's study. This study is aimed to know the meaning of participants' expression. In addition, this study explores the information flow from the participants. This study focuses on the textual meaning of the mocking-chants to football players sung by supporters of the English Premier League (EPL), especially its 6 biggest clubs (the big six). It describes textual meaning through the analysis of the Topical Theme; consists of Unmarked Topical Theme and Marked Topical Theme, Textual Theme and Interpersonal Theme within the Halliday's Systemic Functional Linguistic approach. It is a qualitative descriptive study using content analysis. The data are clauses taken from the lyrics of mocking-chants to the football player from the supporters of the big six clubs. There are six chants that are analyzed by theme and rheme analisys. The result shows that Topical Theme analysis, that is the most dominant theme, brings the main point of the information and underline for whom the song is. The Interpersonal Theme, which is the second dominant theme, shows that the interaction and transaction are socially close. Textual Theme indicates the logical of connecting clause from the previous. These all themes create the information flow well to deliver the meaning of these chant's lyrics from the speaker to the listener.
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