LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS USED IN MAHER ZAIN’S SONGS

Language is a tool of expressing though, feeling, idea, and so on to another person. Song is one of many ways that people used to express their mood, attitude or inform story to other. Human create song for sharing their story through song lyric whether it is sad or happy. In this era, many of the lyricists modified song lyrics for spreading their own religion. One of the most popular religious singer is Maher Zain. This research aims to analyze language functions uses in Maher Zain’s songs. The researcher chooses to analyze five of his best and hits songs which were revealed by Allmusic.com. Among of them are “The Way of Love”, Number One for Me”, Always Be There”, “Ins Sha Allah”, and “Barak Allahu Lakuma” written and sung by Maher Zain. This research used Roman Jakobson’s theory. “function of language is refers to things the speaker do with their language communication”. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative and the data was taken from internet. This method used to describe the data based on Jakobson’s theory. The researcher used observation technique for collecting data. After analyzing the data, the researcher found 34 stanzas from five songs and the researcher took 20 stanzas as example. From twenty data there were one the stanza which is belonging emotive, phatic, referential and conative function, five data that were using emotive, poetic and referential function, one data used phatic, referential and emotive function, two data used poetic, conative and referential function, two data which were used referential and poetic function, one data used referential and phatic function, two data used emotive and poetic function, two data used referential and emotive function, one data used conative and referential function, one data used emotive and conative function, two data used emotive function and one data used referential functio