lexical analysis

INTRODUCTION

      Language is one of media used for communication among people around the world and many people learn English because they want make communication pass well, so that we have attention on the meaning based on the context where and when we are speaking. We should be understood about lexical meaning. It covers among other things the discussion about denotation, connotation, synonymy, antonym, ambiguity, hyponymy, polysemy, homophony, and homonymy. The contributions of semantics have essentially two sources, namely linguistics and philosophy. Linguistics has contributed primary of the core meaning or sense of individual words whereas philosophers have especially contributed to the study of both sentential and discourse meanings. The meaning of words or lexical meaning is part of linguistic knowledge and is therefore a part of grammar. It is complementary to the grammar in that the vocabulary or lexicon not only lists the lexemes of the language, but associate with each lexeme all the information that is required by the rule of the grammar.

      Finally, here we will try analyze the lyric of “my heart will go on” by Celina Dion. Some of the words have lexical meaning that can we can analyze. The data of lexical meaning category is present discussed or analyzed and conclude. In that lyric, we found the several aspects of lexical meaning such as antonym, synonym, polysemy, hyponymy, and ambiguity. Furthermore, let we see the lyric.

CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

2.1 The Data of Song Lyric

                                            My heart will go on

Every night in my dreams

I see you, I feel you

That is how I know you go on

Far across the distance

And spaces between us

You have come to show you go on

Near, far, wherever you are

I believe that the heart does go on

Once more you open the door

And you’re here in my heart

And my heart will go on and on

Love can touch us one time

And last for a lifetime

And never let go till we’re gone

Love was when I loved you

One true time I hold to

In my life we’ll always go on

Near, far, wherever you are

I believe that the heart does go on

Once more you open the door

And you’re here in my heart

And my heart will go on and on

You’re here, there’s nothing I fear

And I know that my heart will go on

We’ll stay forever this way

You are safe in my heart

And my heart will go on and on

2.2 The Analysis of Data

The lyric of song “my heart will go on” above shows that Celina Dion used the lexical meaning. There are several aspects that could be found such as denotative, connotative, synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, hyponymy, and ambiguity.

a)      Denotative and connotative

The meaning of a word is primarily what it refers to the real world, its denotation: this is often the kind of definition that is given in dictionary. Connotation arise as words become related with certain characteristics of item to which they refer, positive or negative feelings to which they evokes, which may or may not be indicated in a dictionary definition.

In this lyric, we can find” Love can touch us one time”. The word “touch” has denotative meaning. It indicates to atmosphere. But the word love can touch also connotative meaning. The word “touch” touch is related with human to do something with their hand, whether it about happiness, sadness or problem.

b)     Antonym

Antonym is words which are the same sense opposite in meaning. There are several types of antonym, complementary pairs, gradable pairs and relational antonym pairs of antonym. We can see the example of the antonym from the lyric of “My heart will go on ”, there are sentences:

“Near, far, wherever you are”

“Far across the distance”

The example of gradable pairs of antonymy is the word far/near.The characteristic of pairs of gradable antonym is that one is marked and the other one is unmarked.

c)      Ambiguity

A word or sentence can be called as ambiguous if it can be understood or interpreted in more than one ways. The different words having same form or pronunciation may cause ambiguity among listeners or readers who do not attention to their context carefully. For example in this lyric of “my heart will go on”.

                   I.            And you’re here in my heart

                II.            I see you, I feel you

In the first sentence (I), and you’re here in my heart’ in my understand that the singer more deeply love the someone”. And the second sentence (II), I see you, I feel you’ mean that the singer really miss her boyfriend.

So that, from the example above we can know that word ambiguous have many interpretation by all people.

d)      Polisemy

Polisemy is a single word that has multiple meaning. For example, we can find the word “door” in the one of lyric “my heart will go on”.

“Once more you open the door”

While the word “door” we found in standard dictionary of English as a single lexeme with several distinguishable meaning, as being polysemous:

“Door” = thing that closes an entrance

“Door” = a trick

“Door” = in some fixed phrases

e)      Hyponymy

A word whose meaning contains the entire meaning of other words is called a hyponymy which is known as the super ordinate. Or the meaning of word includes the meaning of other words. For example in this lyric “my heart will go on”:

“You are safe in my heart”

The word heart is super ordinates of the other words such as liver, lung, and kidney. Let’s see in this diagram:

                                                          

CHAPTER III

CONCLUSION

The lexical meaning or the meaning of word is part of linguistic knowledge. From the analysis, a complete conclusion can be derived that Celina Dion frequently use several aspects about lexical meaning in the lyric of “my heart will go on”, such as denotative, connotative, polysemy, ambiguity, antonym and hyponym.

And the last, your suggestion or opinion to our analyzing is our pleasure. If there are mistake and not good analyzing of this lyric, we beg your critic and suggest us. And we hope that for next analysis will be better.