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    Associative Meanings Used in The Song Lyrics of World of Our Own Album: Semantic Analysis

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    2020
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    Tarigan, Melva Santi
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    Hanafiah, Ridwan
    Muchtar, Muhizar
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    This research entitles The Associative Meanings in Westlife’s Song Lyrics: Semantic Analysis. The objective of the research is to find out the types of associative meanings, to describe the associative meanings used in the song lyrics of the World of our own album, to find out the reasons of for the use the associative meaning as it is. The data of the research were the phrases and words in the song lyrics of Westlife’s World of Our Own album. The method used in this research was the descriptive qualitative method. The theory used in the research was the theory of associative meaning by Leech in Semantics study of meaning. The types of associative meaning found in the data were Reflective Meaning (RM) with 72 lines (36%), Affective Meaning (AM) with 49 lines(25%), Collocative Meaning (CLM) with 31 lines (16%), Social Meaning (SM) with 24 (12%), Connotative Meaning (CM) with 21 lines (11%). The reason of using the reflective meaning was because it had relationship with the individual experience and the real word terms. For social meaning, it was because it showed social circumstance, especially related to the family and experience in apologies for mother. Then, the using of affective meaning was to express the personal feelings or attitudes of the singer to the listener through those songs. Furthermore, the using of reflected meaning was because it gave the new meaning based on the context. The last, the use of collocative meaning was because it was communicated through association with word tends to occur in the environment and it had different sense when it was combined with another noun. The finding showed that the associative meanings used in the album are Reflective Meaning, Affective Meaning, Collocative Meaning, Social Meaning, and Connotative Meaning. Reflective Meaning was the highest rank of associative meaning compared to other types. Meanwhile, Connotative Meaning was the least one.
     
    Penelitian ini berjudul The Associative Meanings in Westlife’s Song Lyrics: Semantic Analysis. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui jenis makna asosiatif, untuk menggambarkan makna asosiatif yang digunakan dalam lirik lagu dari album World of Our Own, untuk mengetahui alasan penggunaan makna asosiatif. Data dari penelitian ini adalah frasa dan kata-kata dalam lirik lagu dari Westlife di album World of Our Own. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori makna asosiatif oleh Leech dalam studi makna semantik. Jenis makna asosiatif yang ditemukan di dalam data penelitian ini adalah Reflective Meaning (RM) dengan 72 baris (36%), Affective Meaning (AM) dengan 49 baris (25%), Collocative Meaning (CLM) dengan 31 baris (16%), Social Meaning (SM) dengan 24 baris (12%), Connotative Meaning (CM) dengan 21 baris (11%). Alasan menggunakan Reflective Meaning adalah karena memiliki hubungan dengan pengalaman individu dan istilah dunia nyata. Untuk Social Meaning, itu karena menunjukkan keadaan social, terutama terkait dengan keluarga dan pengalaman dalam permintaan maaf untuk ibu. Kemudian, penggunaan Affective Meaning adalah untuk mengekspresikan perasaan atau sikap pribadi penyayni kepada pendengar melalui lagu-lagu itu. Lebih jauh, penggunaan makna yang direfleksikan adalah karena memberikan makna baru berdasarkan konteks. Terakhir, penggunaan makna kolokatif karena dikomunikasikan melalui asosiasi dengan kata cendrung terjadi di lingkungan dan memiliki arti yang berbeda ketika dikombinasikan dengan kata benda yang lain. Temuan penelitian menunjukan bahwa makna asosiatif yang digunakan dalam album adalah Reflecyive Meaning, Affective Meaning, Collocative Meaning, Social meaning dan Connotative Meaning. Reflective Meaning adalah peringkat tertinggi dibandingkan dengan tipe lainnya. Sementara itu, Conotative Meaning adalah yang paling sedikit.

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    Journal Elektronik Berlangganan

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