The Impoliteness Strategies of Eminem's Song

Abstract

ABSTRACT Eminem is a famous American singer. He is one of the greatest Rapper in the world. With over 47.4 million albums and 107.5 million singles sold in America and 220 million records globally. Eminem is declared one of the best and one of the most influential writers in the history of music industry. But Eminem music was very controversial. Eminem’s songs are controversial and full of dirty lyric. And in this world, Eminem is perhaps the most successful musician who is able to use dirty lyric or impolite utterance to hypnosis his listener. This research investigated the impoliteness in the Eminem songs title Kill You, Marshall Mathers and Kim. This research used a qualitative descriptive method. The researcher used the theory of impoliteness from Culpeper (1996) to analyze Eminem’s songs. This research investigated what kinds of impoliteness strategies used by Eminem in his songs and what is the most frequently impoliteness strategies used by Eminem in his songs. The researcher took three of Eminem songs to be analyzed title Kill you, Marsahall Mathers and Kim. The research results that have been found include the following. The total number of impoliteness found is 42 data. In Kill You song are bald on record (1) data 2,38 %. Accusation (1) data 2,38 %.Taboo word (2) data 4,7% . Sarcasm (5) data 11,9 % . Ridicule (1) data 2,38 % . In Kim song are taboo word (1)  data 2,38 % . Ridicule (2) data 4,7 %. Sarcasm (2) data 4,7 %. In Marshall Mathers song are sarcasm (3) data 7,14 %. Ridicule  (6) data 14,2 %. Taboo word (4) data 9,5 %. Bald on record (1) data 2,38 %. Sarcasm (1) data 2,38 %.  There were (2) data 4,7 % of bald on record. That was (10) data 23,8 % of sarcasm. Threat (1) data 2,38%.Taboo word (7) data 16 %.Ridicule (8) data 19 %.Accusation (1) data 2,38 %.The total impoliteness strategies found were (42)data 100 %. Based on data analysis, there are three impoliteness strategies used, namely bald on record, negative impoliteness and sarcasm. The theory of impoliteness that is the most frequently used by Eminem in his songs is sarcasm.