CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
In human’s life
communication, getting understood what other people say is not easy. It is
because the way how people communicate each other varies. The variety of how
they communicate could be expressed by many things, such as using oral
speaking, movement, written words in a song, poem, etc. At the same opportunity,
many linguistic branches are developed to study about human communication, such
as Semantics, morphology, pragmatic and so’on.
In
real communication, understanding what peole say becomes the important part to
discuss. It is intended to get the intended messages from what the person says
to someone. As a result, communication takes place among people as well as they
can understand each other and what the other say. Then semantic will be the
linguistic branch that will give a broad understanding about human
communication. Semantic is linguistic branch which studies about meaning. There
are two aspects of meaning that will be concerns. They are lexical and contextual
meaning
Actually, people can interact with other people
through many ways. One of them is Song. Many people interact with others
through song. It is not surprising as song is part of what people need to
consume every day. What can be found in song is that the messages which the
song maker wants to deliver to the listener. In this research, I will analyze the lyric of
song Grenade and the singer is Bruno mars.
CHAPTER II
ANALYSIS
2.1 The Song Lyric
Grenade – bruno mars
Easy come, easy go, that's just how you live
Oh, take, take, take it all but you never give
Should've known you was trouble from the first kiss
Had your eyes wide open, why were they open?
Gave you all I had and you tossed it in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, you did
To give me all your love is all I
ever asked
'Cause, what you don't understand is
I'd catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
Reff:
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won't do the same
No, no, no, no
Black, black, black and blue,
beat me 'til I'm numb Tell the devil I said, hey,
when you get back to where you're
from
Bad women, bad women, that's just what you are, yeah
You'll smile in my face then rip the brakes out my car
Gave you all I had and you tossed it
in the trash
You tossed it in the trash, yes, you
did
To give me all your love is all I
ever asked
'Cause what you don't understand is
I'd catch a grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my
brain
Yes, I would die for ya, baby
But you won't do the same
If my body was on fire
Ooh, you'd watch me burn down in flames
You said you loved me, you're a liar
'Cause you never, ever, ever did,
baby
But darling, I'd still catch a
grenade for ya
Throw my hand on a blade for ya
I'd jump in front of a train for ya
You know I'd do anything for ya
I would go through all this pain
Take a bullet straight through my
brain
Yes, I would die for you, baby
But you won't do the same
No, you won't do the same
You wouldn't do the same
Ooh, you never do the same No, no, no, no
2.2 The Analysis of data
1. Denotation
Denotation is the meaning
of word which is primarily refers to the real word and this is often the
definition that is given in dictionary. The denotation found in the lyric ‘trash’ in the dictionary
is unwanted or undesired waste material.
2. Connotation
Conotation arises as words
become related which certain charateristic as item to which they refer at the
association of positive or negative feelings to which they evokes, which may or
may not be indicated in the dictionary definition. We can found the denotation and connotation of
this lyric such as in the sentence ‘die’ someone will do everything. But in the
dictionary someone who passed away.
3. Ambiguity
Word or sentence is
ambiguous if it can be understood or interpreted in more than one way (Fromkin
et.al, 1990) the different word having same from or pronunciation may cause
ambiguity among listeners or reader who do not pay attention to their context
carefully. We can found the
ambiguity from the lyric such as in sentence ‘on fire’ as I know on fire have
some meaning:
a.
burning; being burned with flames
b. very
attractive or sexy
c. doing
very well; very enthusiastic.
4. Antonym
A word that means the opposite to another word. They can be grouped into 3
types: Gradable, Complementary, and Relational Antonyms.
·
Gradable antonyms, the members of a pair differ in
terms of degree. The denial of one is not necessarily the assertion of other. The word is come and go
·
Complementary Antonyms, the members of a pair in this
type are complementary to each other. Not only the assertion of one means the
denial of the other, the denial of one also means the assertion of the other.
·
Relational Antonyms, they show the reversal a
relationship between two entities. The antonyms found in the song lyric are:
‘You know I'd do anything for ya’ and ‘But you won't do the same’
The meaning is singer will do everything for her girlfriend
but the girlfriend never do the same
5.
Synonym
Synonyms can be any part
of speech (e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs or prepositions), as long as
both members of the pair are the same part of speech. We will found the Synonym from this lyric such
as in the sentence on fire and burn in the flame
6. Hiponymy
A word
with a particular meaning that is included in the meaning of a more general
word. A word that represents different categories covered by a superordinate:
general term that includes various different words
representing narrower categories, called Hyponyms. We can found the hyponym in sentence ‘baby’ baby can be interpreted for
girlfriend, but the other meaning of baby is child.
7.
Polysemy
Polysemy
is a word that has multiple meaning. The polysemy found in the song lyric is ‘Give’ . give have a some meaning these are
1. Give a food
2. Give a drink
3. Give a love
4. Give a respect
CHAPTER III
CONCLUSION
Semantics is one the
brances of linguistics studying about meaning. And it is considered as a
major branch as linguistict devoded to the studying of meaning in language (
Cristal, 1991:3010). The meaning it self may be catagorized into three levels.
The are lexical meaning, sentential meaning and discoursal meaning.
After having
analysis the lexical meaning in song liric titled“ Grenade” sung by Bruno Mars it can be concluted that this
song have some lexical meaning features, such as conotation, polisemy, antonym,
synonym, hiponym, but this song does not have ambiguity features.
Analysing the lexical
meaning of a song lyric, poem or even Holly Quran can be important because it
helps the readers or may be a listener to understand and catch the meaning of
those items. Unfortunately, a few of human understand about it. The writer
hopes this analysis useful for us
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REFERENCES
Eka,
dina.2010. An analysis of lexical meaning of under the sea song lyric. Malang.
Faculty of Humanyties and Culture UIN Maliki Malang.
Faculty of Humanyties and Culture UIN Maliki Malang.
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