A Psycholinguistic Analysis of Affective Lexicon Processing and Emotional Resonance in Khloe Rose's 'Fictional' Among English Education Students
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https://doi.org/10.1234/prosiding.v2i1.4996Keywords:
Psycholinguistics, Affective lexicon, Emotional resonance, EFL Responses, Song lyrics, EscapismAbstract
abstrak—Penelitian ini mengkaji jenis leksikon afektif, pemrosesannya secara psikolinguistik, dan resonansi emosional yang ditimbulkan dalam lagu "Fictional" (2023) karya Khloe Rose di kalangan mahasiswa Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris. Menggunakan desain metode campuran, penelitian ini mengintegrasikan anotasi lirik kualitatif dengan kerangka leksikon afektif SentiSense dan kerangka kategorisasi gramatikal. Analisis kuantitatif data kuesioner terstruktur dari 10 peserta mahasiswa sarjana. Temuan menunjukkan bahwa lagu ini mengandung dua belas unit leksikal afektif dominan yang mencakup tujuh kategori SentiSense—Kesedihan, Keputusasaan, Ketakutan, Harapan, Cinta, Kegembiraan, dan Ketenangan—yang disusun melalui kontras antonimik antara domain realitas dan fiksi. Mahasiswa menunjukkan empat kecenderungan pemrosesan: bias leksikal konkret-pertama (90% untuk "broken heart"), rekonfigurasi kognitif optimistis terhadap metafora negatif (70% menginterpretasikan "down the rabbit hole" sebagai Harapan), pemrosesan komparatif skalar, dan akurasi tinggi untuk adjektiva afektif eksplisit (80%). Resonansi emosional secara keseluruhan sangat tinggi, dengan dua indikator mencapai konsensus 100%—resonansi perlindungan diri dan identifikasi isolasi. Empat faktor moderasi teridentifikasi: kecenderungan escapisme, tekanan akademik, keakraban dengan lagu, dan latar belakang pengalaman emosional individu.
Kata kunci—Psikolinguistik, Leksikon afektif, Resonansi emosional, EFL respons, Lirik lagu, Escapisme
Abstract—This study examines the types of affective lexicons, their psycholinguistic processing, and the emotional resonance they evoke in Khloe Rose's song "Fictional" (2023) among English Language Education students. Employing a mixed-methods design, this research integrates qualitative lyric annotation using the SentiSense affective lexicon framework and the grammatical categorization framework. Quantitative analysis of structured questionnaire data from 10 undergraduate participants. Findings reveal that the song contains twelve dominant affective lexical units spanning seven SentiSense categories—Sadness, Despair, Fear, Hope, Love, Joy, and Calm—structured through an antonymic contrast between the reality and fictional domains. Students demonstrated four processing tendencies: concrete-first lexical bias (90% for "broken heart"), optimistic cognitive reframing of negative metaphors (70% interpreted "down the rabbit hole" as Hope), scalar comparative processing, and high accuracy for explicit affective adjectives (80%). Emotional resonance was uniformly high, with two indicators reaching 100% consensus—self-protection resonance and isolation identification. Four moderating factors were identified: escapism tendency, academic pressure, song familiarity, and individual emotional experience. These findings validate the SentiSense framework's cross-linguistic applicability and underscore the pedagogical value of affectively rich authentic texts in EFL vocabulary instruction.
Keywords— Psycholinguistics, Affective lexicon, Emotional resonance, EFL Responses, Song lyrics, Escapism
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