AN ANALYSIS OF INTERPERSONAL METAFUNCTION IN “A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS” COLDPLAY’S ALBUM OF SONG LYRICS

Abstract

Coldplay is a band from the British, begin its career in 1998. Until today Coldplay has already eight song albums, one of the albums is A Head Full of Dreams. In its album, the songs make use of interpersonal metafunction. The objectives of the research is to describe the mood types used in the lyrics of Coldplay’s album A Head Full of Dreams, to describe the modality in the lyrics of Coldplay’s album A Head Full of Dreams. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative for the research approach and content analysis for the type of research. The data of this research is taken from A Head Full of Dreams’ song lyrics which are taken by Coldplay’s official website. Documentation is used in the data collection technique. The researchers use Flow model by Miles and Huberman and functional approach to the data analysis technique. The result of the research reveal: (1) Mood shows three kinds of mood which are declarative, imperative, and interrogative and found 76 declaratives, 83 imperatives, and 2 interrogatives. (2) Modality shows that there are categorized of modality, which is low, medium, and high and found can’t, can, will, would, and might.