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Appraisal Analysis: Attitudes Used in Bruno Mars’ Hits Song Lyrics


Gender, ethnicity, sexuality, class, history, education, and culture are social contexts which affect our perception of the world trough language use. This social life is part of culture that based on believe, perspectives, and thoughts of community belongs to the certain culture. The impact of social life which emerges from certain culture creates new variations of genres in discourse of language. It means human being and language can not be separated from social context. As an illustration, in expressing and elaborating their thoughts, feeling in language, people do have two methods that influence by the social context whether are spoken and written. The social contexts make the language become complex from its point of view. This complexity does give profound meaning in the spoken or written language. Therefore, perspectives needed to unveil the complexity of the text, since text is a fundamental element in language. To reveal the profound meaning in text, in this way, aninterdisciplinary field concerned with the study of language use in context which is discourse analysis is able to unveil the profound meaning in the text.

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