SEMANTIC ANALYSIS IN THE LYRICS OF COLDPLAY’S SONGS

YULIANA, ELLA PUSPITA (2023) SEMANTIC ANALYSIS IN THE LYRICS OF COLDPLAY’S SONGS. Diploma thesis, UIN RADEN INTAN LAMPUNG.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Semantic is the branches of Linguistic that focus with the study of meaning in utterence or language. In semantic, there are lexical and contextual meaning. The lexical meaning is meaning that refers to the meaning in dictionary. Meanwhile, the contextual meaning is meaning based on the context . Therefore, both of lexical and contextual meaning appear in every literary work in order to convey the message of literary work. Thus, this research was focused on analyzing the lexical and contextual meaning in song lyrics. The writer choose Coldplay’s new Album“Music of The Spheres” to analyze. The objective of the research was to find the words have lexical and contextual meaning and identify the types of contextual meaning in the lyrics of Coldplay’s song. The writer takes three songs in “Music of The Spheres” Album by Coldplay, they are Let Somebody Go, Humankind, and My Universe. Descriptive qualitative methode used in this study. The writer would analyze and interpret the research object of Coldplay’s songs. To conduct this study, the writer use lexical and contextual meaning theory by Parera. The researcher collected the data through searching the source on the internet, selected the songs, read the lyrics, and took a note to analyze the word that contain the lexical and contextual meaning . The result of this study showed that there are 20 words which have lexical and contextual meaning. Moreover, the types of contextual meaning that found from the song lyrics are object of the context, context of the language, personal context, situational context and mood of speaker or listener. The most found is object of the context types, there are 9 words that include in object of the context types. Keywords: Semantic, Lexical Meaning, Contextual Meaning, Song Lyrics, Coldplay

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