| dc.description.abstract | The study scrutinizes nihilism, a philosophical viewpoint, in Linkin Park
song lyrics. Being a Nu- Metal band, Linkin Park has been an influential rock band
since the early 2000s. As a part of socio cultural group, the band, as the social
agent, is believed to construe nihilism, which is viewed as social reality. The
research aims to reveal nihilism as realized through the language use in two song
lyrics, Papercut, and Crawling in Hybrid Theory album. Halliday’s Systemic
Functional Grammar on transitivity system and Fairclough’s framework of CDA
are applied to provide evidences on how nihilism is produced and manifested in
the song lyrics as social practice. The analysis on clauses reveals that nihilism is
strongly established and prevalent in the lyrics representing the emotion and the
apocalyptic life experienced by the band. The findings also demonstrate that CDA
and Systemic Functional Grammar succeed in disclosing and addressing social
problems as represented in the linguistic features used in the text as the product
of the band’s discourse. | en_US |
