CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background And Reason Of Choosing The Title

Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols (Sapir,

1921). A language consists of symbols that convey meaning, plus rules for combining those symbols, that can be used to generate an infinitive variety of messages (Weiten, 2007). When someone studies language, unconsciously, the people study about linguistics.

Linguistics in general is the science or human science that tries to learn the nature of language, grammar, how the language was acquired, how language works and how language evolved. There are various branches of linguistics which are given their own name; Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and

Pragmatics. Phonology is the study of speech sound as they occur in a particular language. Morphology is looks at how individual words are formed from smaller chunks of meaningful units called morphemes. Syntax is the study of how phrases, clauses and sentences are constructed and combined in particular languages.

Semantics is the study of meaning. It focuses on the relation between words, phrases and other bitss of language and on how these word and phrases connect to the world.

Pragmatics is similar, but it involves the study of how speakers of a language use the language to communicate and accomplish what they want.

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Human beings need language as their communication because language as the branch of linguistic. Semantic is the systematic study of meaning, and linguistic semantic is the study of how language organize and express meanings. Charles W.

Kreidler (1998:3). The researcher expects this study is useful for the other researcher who wish to know about semantics. Moreover, semantics as an important branch of linguistics is interesting to be studies especially when it is applied to literary work such as song, poem and prose.

In Linguistics, it generally refers to study of form and structure of words.

Semantics is a branch linguistics devoted to the study of meaning. Especially the meaning of words, phrases, sentences, and text. It is concerned with describing how the user of a language represents the meaning of a word, or linguistics forms above or below a word in his mind and how he uses this representation in constructing sentences. Semantics which is based largerly on the study of logic in philosophy is commonly contrasted with syntax. Which pertains to the formal arrangement of characters and words in the expression of a given language.

According to Todd (1987:79) “Semantic focuses on the link between the lexicon and the grammar and semantic meaning. In doing so, we are characterizing the meaning of each word, not in terms of its component features, but in terms of its relationship to other words. This approach is used in the semantic description of language and treated as the analysis of semantic/lexical relations. Semantic relations have some types, there are Polysemy, Synonymy, Antonymy, Hyponymy,

Hypernymy, Ambiguity, and Idiom.”

Idiom is a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own. An idiom is a group of

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words whose meaning cannot be explained in terms of the habitual meanings of the words that make up the piece of language (Todd, 1987:86). Idiom can be defined in all published work such as articles, song lyric, advertisement, etc. Song lyric is exspresion someone about something seen, heard, or experienced.

Every song has its message. The appeal and effectiveness of the song to the listener is dependent on the lyrics. The messages contained in a song lyric can be delivered depending on how the writer put the words in the lyrics (Bertoli-Dutra and Bissaco, 2006: 1053).

Song lyrics that are a discourse to entertain, advise, and motivate. The object of the research is the lyrics of the song Furler with an album “1000 Forms To

Fear” released in 2014. At the beginning of its emergence, Sia Furler is a and singer who seizes the attention of the community with her phenomenal creations. She also created songs for famous singers in various countries like

Rihanna, Madonna, and Beyonce.

Song lyrics are also interesting to be studied language loudly because it can bring the form of language creativity that is used by the creator of the lyrics of the song. Therefore, the writer of this study are given the title “Idiom In Sia Furler

Songs”.

1.2. Statement Of The Problem

The writer tries to find out the answer to some the problem of analyzing idiom. Therefore, the writer states that some problem in the following questions :

1. What types of idiom can be found in song lyrics Sia Furler?

2. What is the dominant types of idiom in song lyrics Sia Furler?

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1.3. Scope Of The Problem

The writer focuses to analyze types of idiom in eight song lyrics Sia Furler in album “1000 Form To Fear”. Albums that release in 2014 with a title song :

“Chandelier”, “Straight For The Knife”, “Hostage”, “Burn The Pages”, “Free

The Animal”, “Fire Meet Gasoline”, “Cellophane”, and “Dressed In Black”.

1.4. Method And Procedures Of The Analysis

This paper uses descriptive qualitative method to analyze this idiom lyric in song lyrics Sia Furler. The writer find and get some data, and then analyze the data and information by searching internet and library research.

In this paper, the writer does some procedures. The first step is deciding the right topic, the writer chooses the lyric. The writer also prepare the theories to support the analysis. Then the writer analyzes the lyric by reaching song lyrics Sia

Furler in ”1000 Form to Fear” for several times and then identifies the lyric by taking a note for the sentences which the writer wants to analyzed. After that, the writer analyzes the lyrics. In this section, the writer finds the result of the statement of the problem. Last writer makes the final assignment from this idiom in song lyrics Sia Furler.