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Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance's Songs CONTEXTUAL MEANING ON MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’S SONGS: A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS A THESIS BY PUTRI PAULINE STEFANI NAPITUPULU 140705155 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2019 UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AUTHOR’S DECLARATION I, PUTRI PAULINE STEFANI NAPITUPULU, DECLARE THAT I AM THE SOLE AUTHOR OF THIS THESIS EXCEPT WHERE REFERENCE IS MADE IN THE TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS CONTAINS NO MATERIAL PUBLISHED ELSEWHERE OR EXTRACTED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FROM A THESIS BY WHICH I HAVE QUALIFIED FOR OR AWARDED ANOTHER DEGREE. NO OTHER PERSON’S WORK HAS BEEN USED WITHOUT DUE ACKNOWLEDMENTS IN THE MAIN TEXT OF THIS THESIS. THIS THESIS HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED FOR THE AWARD OF ANOTHER DEGREE IN ANY TERTIARY EDUCATION. Signed: Date : February 6th, 2019 v UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA COPYRIGHT DECLARATION NAME : PUTRI PAULINE STEFANI NAPITUPULU TITLE OF THESIS : CONTEXTUAL MEANING ON MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE’S SONGS: A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS QUALIFICATION : S-1/SARJANA SASTRA DEPARTMENT : ENGLISH I AM WILLING THAT MY THESIS SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR REPRODUCTION AT THE DISCRETION OF THE LIBRARIAN OF DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT USERS ARE MADE AWARE OF THEIR OBLIGATION UNDER LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA. Signed : Date : February 6th, 2019 vi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My gratitude for God Almighty for the blessing He gives to me in writing this thesis. First, I would like to thank the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Sumatera Utara, Dr. Budi Agustono, M.S, who has supported and helped my study during the period of study in this faculty. Second, I would like to thank to the Head of English Department, Prof. T. Silvana Sinar, M. A., Ph. D, and the Secretary of English Department Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, M.A. Ph.D and the Lecturers who has taught and guided us with their knowledge and wisdom during my study in this faculty. My special thanks go to Dr. Deliana, M.Hum. as my supervisor and Dra. Roma Ayuni Aminoeddin Loebis, MA as my co-supervisor for their kindness, patience, support t, guidance, time, valuable ideas and advices in my process of writing my thesis. May God is always blessing you. I would like to thank to Dr. Nurlela, M.Hum. as one of my examiner on my examinations for her support, guidance, and ideas to better this thesis. And also I would like to thank to Sir Kirno who helps me in administration process. Third, I would like to thank my family members, my mother and my older brother who have helped me tremendously in every steps of my life, who have supported me and always encouraged me to do my best in pursuing my dreams. I would also thank my grandmother who has worked very hard for us and has been my great role model to guide us to always become better and stronger as a person. My gratitude is also for my aunts and uncles, all of my cousins, and especially my newest vii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA brother and his wife who have always been around to support each other through our ups and downs as a family. There was no single day passed without them working hard to support me and every each of us to grow and develop as a family. My special thank you for all of my friends in USU who has supported each other during our study, especially my closest friend Almira, and Anggi who have helped me tremendously in life through emotional and mental support and helped me grow to be the person I am today. Words won’t be enough to illustrate how thankful and honored I am to have them as my friends. I would also thank my friend Clarisa and Umairoh for their support since our senior high school days until this day. And lastly, I would also thank all of the friends I made online around the world in the past few years who also have helped me to grow and taught me a lot about life and supported me through my days of writing this thesis. I realized that this thesis is far from being perfect. Without any helps and support from all parties, this thesis would not be completed. Finally, I hope this thesis would be useful for the readers and other researchers in the future. Medan, February 6th, 2019 Putri Pauline Stefani Napitupulu Reg. No. 140705155 viii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT The research entitled “Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance’s Songs: A Semantic Analysis”. The aims of this research are to find out the types of contextual meaning and to find out the most dominant type of contextual meaning in five of My Chemical Romance’s songs: Welcome To The Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, I Don’t Love You, and Disenchanted. The research applies qualitative method and the data are analyzed descriptively. The data are classified based on the theory of Contextual Meaning of Lyons (1977). Based on Lyons’ theory, there are six types of contextual meaning: Context of Person, Context of Place, Context of Time, Context of Formality, Context of Mood, and Context of Subject-matter. The result of this research shows that there are 256 contextual meanings found on five of My Chemical Romance’s song lyrics. After being analyzed, there are 134 Context of Person (55.0%), 6 Context of Place (2.3%), 16 Context of Time (6.3%), 5 Context of Formality (2.0%), 45 Context of Mood (17.6%), and 43 Context of Subject-matter (16.8%). The results of this research show that all types of contextual meaning can be found in the lyrics of five of My Chemical Romance’s songs and Context of Person is the most dominant type of contextual meaning found in the lyrics of five of My Chemical Romance’s songs. The result of this study shows that the elements surrounding a context play an important role to convey the meanings of song lyrics. Keywords: Semantics, Meaning, Contextual Meaning, Song lyrics ix UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK Penelitian ini berjudul “Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance’s Songs: A Semantic Analysis”. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk menemukan tipe makna kontekstual dan untuk menemukan tipe makna kontekstual terdominan di lima lagu My Chemical Romance: Welcome To The Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, I Don’t Love You, dan Disenchanted. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dan data dianalisis secara deskriptif. Data diklasifikasi berdasarkan teori makna kontekstual oleh Lyons (1977). Berdasarkan teori Lyons, terdapat enam tipe makna kontekstual , yaitu: Context of Person, Context of Place, Context of Time, Context of Formality, Context of Mood, and Context of Subject-matter. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 262 makna kontekstual di lirik lima lagu My Chemical Romance. Setelah analisis dilakukan, ditemukan 134 Context of Person (55.0%), 6 Context of Place (2.3%), 16 Context of Time (6.3%), 5 Context of Formality (2.0%), 45 Context of Mood (17.6%), dan 43 Context of Subject-matter (16.8%). Hasil dari penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa Context of Person adalah tipe makna kontekstual yang terdominan dan semua tipe makna kontekstual dapat ditemukan di lirik lima lagu My Chemical Romance. Hasil dari studi menunjukkan bahwa elemen-elemen yang melingkupi sebuah konteks berperan penting dalam menyampaikan makna dari lirik lagu. Kata kunci: Semantik, Makna, Makna Kontekstual, Lirik lagu x UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA TABLE OF CONTENTS AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ………………………………………..………….. v COPYRIGHT DECLARATION …………………………………...……………. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ……………………………………………………... vii ABSTRACT ……………………………………………………………………….. ix ABSTRAK ……………………………………………………………………….… x TABLE OF CONTENTS ………………………………………………………… xi CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study……………...……….......... 1 1.2 Problems of the Study ……………………...……….. 5 1.3 Objectives of the Study………………….…..………. 5 1.4 Scope of the Study……………………….…….......... 5 1.5 Significances of the Study………………………....... 6 CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE 2.1 Semantics ...................……………………................. 7 2.2 Scope of Semantics……………………..………........ 8 2.2.1 Meaning ………………………….……..…….......... 8 2.2.2 Sense and Reference .……………….……....………. 9 2.3 Contextual meaning ………………...………........... 10 2.4 Types of Contextual Meaning ................................... 11 2.4.1 Context of Person ………………………….............. 12 2.4.2 Context of Place…………………...………….......... 13 2.4.3 Context of Time ……………………………….…... 14 2.4.4 Context of Formality ………………………….…… 15 2.4.5 Context of Mood………………….…………........... 17 2.4.6 Context of Subject-matter..……………………...…. 17 2.5 Related Studies…………………………………...… 18 2.6 Conceptual Framework…………………………..… 23 xi UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH 3.1 Research Design ………………................................ 25 3.2 Data and Data Source …………………………….... 25 3.3 Technique of Collecting Data …...……………........ 26 3.4 Technique of Analyzing Data …………………….. 26 CHAPTER IV DISCUSSION AND FINDING 4.1 Discussion …………................................................. 28 4.1.1 Context of Person …………...................................... 29 4.1.1.1 Deictic Roles ………………………………………. 29 4.1.1.2 Social Roles ……………………………………….. 34 4.1.2 Context t of Place ……….…………………………. 35 4.1.3 Context of Time ………….………………………... 37 4.1.4 Context of Formality …….………………………… 40 4.1.5 Context of Mood ………….……........................… 42 4.1.6 Context of Subject-matter ….……………………… 51 4.2 Finding …………………………………….………. 64 CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion …………………………………..…….. 67 5.2 Suggestion …………………………………………. 68 REFERENCES APPENDICIES xii UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Language is very important in human life. Language is a means of communication for human therefore human cannot function well without the presence of language in their life. Language is a system of verbal symbol which is used by the member of certain society to convey their messages to others (Wardhaugh, 1977:3) The study of language is called linguistics. It is concerned with identifying the elements of a specific language are related to each other and go together to express more complex meanings.
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