A Critical Discourse Analysis of How Background Music Exhilarates Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s Narratives.

Authors

  • Rizky Anugrah Putra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58989/plj.v1i2.13

Keywords:

Critical Discourse Analysis, Metal Gear Rising, Music, Narrative, Semantics

Abstract

Games have evolved beyond entertainment and become captivating spectacles with interesting stories and visuals. While most prioritize visuals, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is popular in 2022 due to its combination of music and story, making it a phenomenal meme. Because of this phenomenon, the researcher wants to examine how music can enhance the story elements of a game. To get an answer to this phenomenon, the researcher operates Fairclough's critical discourse analysis to examine the seven-song lyrics contained in the game Metal Gear Rising into three dimensions of analysis: microstructure, mesostructure and macrostructure. The researcher found that the song's lyrics enrich the narrative elements of the MGSR series by utilizing six styles of language: symbolism, metaphor, hyperbole, rhetoric, personification, and tautology. This research can provide an initial report on the association between literature, aesthetics and music in popular culture.

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Published

2022-11-30

How to Cite

Putra, R. A. (2022). A Critical Discourse Analysis of How Background Music Exhilarates Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance’s Narratives. Pulchra Lingua: A Journal of Language Study, Literature & Linguistics, 1(2), 131–145. https://doi.org/10.58989/plj.v1i2.13

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Vol. 1 No. 2 (2022): Pulchra Lingua: A Journal of Language Study, Literature & Linguistics

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