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An in-depth semantic analysis of Foster the People's album 'Torches'. The study identifies and explains the use of figurative language, including hyperbole, personification, and simile, in the song lyrics. The research is based on qualitative analysis using theories by Perrine and Leech.
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Komang Dian Permatajaya English Department, Faculty of Letters and Culture, Udayana University
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Studi ini difokuskan kepada analisis aspek semantik dari lirik-lirik lagu di album Torches dari band Foster the People. Tujuan dari studi ini dibagi menjadi dua. Pertama, studi ini bertujuan untuk mengidentifikasi fitur-fitur semantik diantaranya hiperbola, personifikasi, dan simile yang ditemukan pada lirik-lirik lagu di album Torches dari band Foster the People. Kedua, studi ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan makna kata dari fitur-fitur semantik diantaranya hiperbola, personifikasi, and simile yang digunakan di dalam lirik-lirik lagu tersebut. Metode yang digunakan untk memilih data pada studi ini adalah metode obervasi dan teknik pengambilan catatan. Studi ini menganalisis secara kualitatif berdasarkan teori figuratif dari Perrine (2005) dan teori makna kata dari Geoffrey Leech (1974). Hasil analisis dalam studi ini menunjukkan bahwa lirik-lirik lagu di album Torches mengandung fitur-fitur semantik diantaranya hiperbola, personifikasi, dan simile. Makna kata diantaranya makna konseptual, stylistik, and afektif juga dipresentasikan di dalam fitur-fitur semantik tersebut. Fitur-fitur semantik dan makna kata tersebut digunakan oleh penulis lagu dengan tujuan untuk menghibur pendengar dari lagu-lagu tersebut.
Kata kunci: Lirik lagu, fitur-fitur semantik, makna kata.
express their thoughts through the language in written or spoken forms. Song
lyrics are also being the way in order to express the thoughts of people as the
development of art in today‟s life. Nowadays, song lyric is merely like poetry
since composing song lyric is not a simple and easy thing. Moreover, song lyric
have stanzas and lines like poetry does. It can be assumed that song lyric and
poetry are similar things that are only separated by their names and the way how
they are delivered by its users. Every lyric absolutely have meanings within.
Those meanings are much related with the study of semantic. There are several
linguistic aspects of the songs such as semantic aspects and their meanings are
discussed in this study. Those semantic aspects are hyperbole, personification and
simile, and those meanings are conceptual meaning, stylistic meaning, and
affective meaning. The data that were used in this study are the song lyrics from
the album Torches by an American band, Foster the People.
delivered in the service of truth. It can be seen that the writer of this song lyric writes an exaggerated word to support his plead in saying a truth to God as the person in this song is a reflection of himself and his life.
b) Personification According to Perrine (Arp, T. R., & Johnson, 2005: 73) personification consists in giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept. It is really a subtype of metaphor, an implied comparison in which the figurative term of the comparison is always a human being. In other words, an animal, object, or a concept is given human characteristic.
with a sense of personification, the word “smokes” in this song lyric can do something like human being.
c) Simile According to Perrine (Arp, T. R., & Johnson, 2005: 70) metaphor and simile are both used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike. The only distinction between them is that in simile the comparison is expressed by the use of some word or phrase, such as like, as, than, similar to, resembles or seems; in metaphor the comparison is implied – that is, the figurative term is substituted for or identified with the literal term.
d) Conceptual meaning Leech (1974: 11) states that the aims of conceptual meaning is to provide, for any given interpretation of a sentence, a configuration of abstract symbol, that shows exactly what we require to know if we are to distinguish that meaning from all other possible sentence meanings in the
f) Affective meaning Leech (1974: 16) states that affective meaning is one type of meaning that reflects the personal feeling of the speaker, including his attitude to the listener, or his attitude to something he is talking about.