A STUDY OF TERM FOR WOMEN IN THE SONGS FOR LIFE : THE CASE STUDY OF THE CARABAO BAND

Abstract

The study of women's terms in songs for life, the Carabao band case study was aimed to analyze the meaning and the creativity structure of the terms of woman appeared in 80 Carabao songs, and to analyze the strategies of creating a woman called in the songs for the life of Carabao. The samples were 23 female vocal selections selected from the first eight to eight albums of the Carabao band released in 1981 to 1987, totally 80 songs. The results of the study were as follows. First, for the meaning of the term used for women, it is found that the explicit meaning is used more than the implicit meaning. The words with the explicit meaning are found 52.17 percent while the implicit meaning is 47.83 percent.  Second, the term "woman" means "straight" was accounted for 4.35%.  Third, the words used to call other women were mostly found with the percentage of 43.48 while the words used to call younger women, beloved women and valuable women are rarely found with the percentage of 4.35 percent. In accordance with the creativity structure for the terms of woman, the most used structure was compound word method. The compound words created from Thai and Thai word accounted for 34.78 percent. The other structure found used in the songs are morphemes representing 21.73 percent which are created by Thai words. The least known word formation technique was strategies to create words by women repeatedly, called repeating words, with the percentage of 4.35 percent.