POLYSEMY ANALYSIS OF SONG LYRICS IN THE ALBUMS OF “POSITIONS” BY ARIANA GRANDE

Yuliyanti, Ahmad Juheni (2023) POLYSEMY ANALYSIS OF SONG LYRICS IN THE ALBUMS OF “POSITIONS” BY ARIANA GRANDE. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Polysemy has always become a significant issue in interdisciplinary studies, mainly because particular words or phrases tend to have multiple meanings and the way to decide on the intended meanings involves cultural understanding that may be problematic for different groups of people. This paper divides the main research questions into two inquiries: 1) What are the types of polysemy in Ariana Grande song lyrics on the albums “Positions”?; and 2)What are the word classes of polysemy words in Ariana Grande‟s song lyrics on the albums “Positions”?. The purpose of this research is to find the polysemy words consisted in the Grades‟ song lyric and the word class of the polysemy found. It is found that the phenomena of polysemy found in the song lyric. This has been done by implementing two stages of procedures in this research: (1) identifying the translation of the most significant polysemous words, phrases, clauses, and sentences found in the song lyric by using meaning patterns and contextual patterns and (2) discovering the words of polysemy involved and the word class of polysemy words. The analysis shows that there are 9 polysemy words that is contained on the Grande‟s song such as like, left, right, back, get, mind, head, and up. From those 9 words, there are seven words as accidental polysemy and two words as logical polysemy. Further, it is fund that 6 data contained different word classes Like has a function as preposition and verb, left has a function as the verb and adverb, right has a function as adverb and noun, back has a function as adverb and noun, mind has a function as noun and verb, , up has a function as adverb and preposition. Key words: Polysemy Words, Word Class, Translation, Ariana Grande’ Song, Qualitative.

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