Discourse Analysis on Philippine Nationalistic Songs: Circa 70’s and 80’s

ABSTRACT
This qualitative data analysis sought to discover the various linguistic features and identify the social leanings embedded in the 15 selected Philippine Nationalistic songs of the 70's and 80's which exhibit cultural, social and political notions related to how Filipinos retaliate and express their feelings towards the government during those era. Employing qualitative design using discourse analysis, the linguistic nature of the data source – Philippine nationalistic songs, the analysis, resulted to the prevailing linguistic features which comprised the morphological processes, lexical features, phonological features, semantic features and syntactic features of the nationalistic songs. Furthermore, it emerged in the analysis that the social leanings embedded in the songs are nationalism, patriotism, motivation, happiness, embracing the beauty and realities of life, political chaos, call for unity, valuing strength, understanding meaning of life and unresolved conflicts. Philippine Nationalistic songs therefore are rich in linguistic features making it more meaningful to the listeners, as the songs mirror the emotions which embed social leanings and lessons in life.
Keywords: applied linguistics, discourse analysis, nationalistic songs, linguistic features, social leanings, Philippines

applied linguistics, discourse analysis, nationalistic songs, linguistic features, social leanings, PhilippinesLanguage and Literature

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