A Semantic Analysis of Figurative Language in Selena Gomez’S Album Rare
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A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN SELENA GOMEZ’S ALBUM RARE Angela A. Rambi, Tirza Kumayas, Sanerita T. Olii English Education Department Faculty of Language and Arts Universitas Negeri Manado Tondano, Indonesia Email: [email protected] Abstract : The purpose of this study is to analyze the types and the meaning of figurative language in the song lyrics of Selena Gomez in her album, Rare. The basis of this research is the theory proposed by Kennedy who divided figurative language in three parts, namely comparative, contradictive and correlative figurative language. In analyzing the data, the researcher used steps by Miles and Huberman: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification. The result of this research showed that there are 31 expressions of figurative language in six song lyrics of Selena’s “Rare” album. There are 22 expressions of metaphor, 6 expressions of hyperbole and 3 expressions of symbol. Metaphor is the most dominant figurative language in Selena’s song lyric; for example, in the lyric of Lose You to Love Me, we can found some expressions of metaphor, such as: set fire to my purpose and every single words builds up to this moment. From the explanation above, the researcher can suggest for future researcher to analyze and discuss other types of figurative language in Selena’s other album. Keywords : Figurative language, song lyric, Selena Gomez, Kennedy, Miles and Huberman 1. INTRODUCTION information, idea, emotion, feelings and experience. Human beings always live side by side. They have to interact with each other to People can communicate with each fulfill their needs. To achieve that, we use other by using media such as letter, radio, a means called language. Language is very television, social media, video and song. important in people’s lives. Maru As stated by Tuerah (2019:107) One of the (2016:58) stated that people use language media for communication is a song. to express inner thoughts and emotions, to Through song someone could convey his understand complex and abstract thoughts, voice to many people, so that people can to learn to communicate with others to know his feelings. Currently a lot of songs meet our wants or needs, and to set rules could express our feelings, such as songs and maintain our culture. Liando (2017:21) with the theme of love, social, political, and claims that without language, people would others. Song as piece of music with words find problems in sharing information, that are sung has a function to express interacting with others, showing personal thoughts and feeling. Song has sympathies and clarifying important cases. some elements, such as lyrics and melody. (Hampp, 2019: 15) also state that through Listening to a song is an interesting language, humans can think and develop activity, but sometimes the listeners do not their knowledge. People need language to understand the figurative language that communicate with each other, to interact commonly found in a song lyric. and also to show and share knowledge, 377 Basically, figurative language is part of beautify the song and makes the hearer the semantic. Semantic is the study of the more interested in hearing it. Song lyric is meaning of words, phrases and sentences. a short poem in a number of verses set to Meaning in semantic can be divided into music to be sung. In its writing, the two parts, they are literal meaning and songwriters or composers usually beautify nonliteral meaning. The literal meaning is the language they use by any figurative based on the actual word while non literal language, so that the listeners will be more meaning is otherwise. When a person attracted in listening the songs. There are speaks non literally or means something so many figurative languages that can be different from what the words mean, it is used by the author for examples metaphor, called non literal meaning. Knowing the simile, personification, symbol and others. meaning of a lyric is really important because we will know the purpose of the Further, there are so many song writers song. Maru (2016:7) claims that in social or composers, singers and poets which process, there are people who have their own characteristics in their communicate more than they say, they use language. One of the famous singer is language that indicate meanings more than Selena Gomez. She likes to use her the language does. This term is called thoughts, feelings and experience as figurative language. Tuerah (2019:107) inspiration when writing songs. She is able stated figurative language as a language to tell topics that many people can relate to expression, whose meaning is different their life, such as being young, teenage, from its literal one. Figurative language is family, growing up and love relationships. a kind of language that departs from the language employed the traditional literal In this research the researcher analyzed ways of describing persons of object. It is a figurative language especially metaphor, language that uses words or expressions hyperbole and symbol in six song lyrics of with a meaning that is different with the Selena Gomez’s latest album, Rare. From literal interpretation. It is used to express that explanation above the researchers something in an unusual way. The use of decide to create a research entitled “A figurative language can give an additional Semantic Analysis of Figurative Language sense for the reader or the listener to build in Selena Gomez’s Album, Rare”. The their imagination. In addition, it is a way researcher hopes that it can help for the which is used by an author to convey a readers easily to understand the meaning of meaning of his literary work. Kennedy figurative language expressions in Selena’s (1983:481, as cited in Arifah, 2016) has Song lyrics. classified the figurative language into three parts, which are comparative, contradictive and correlative. Comparative figurative 2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY language consists of metaphor, personification and simile. Contradictive In this research, the researcher analyzed figurative language consists of hyperbole, the data using qualitative research litotes, paradox, and irony. Correlative methods. According to Bogdan and Biklen figurative language consists of metonymy, (1992:30, as cited in Wowor, 2020), synecdoche, symbol, allusion, and ellipsis. qualitative research is a descriptive which Sharndama (2013:169) states that a the data is collected in the form of words or Metaphor is a figurative language which pictures rather than numbers. The writer compares two different things directly. took the 6 song lyrics from Selena’s album Dennis (1996:65, as cited in Arifah, 2016) “Rare” as the data source. The process of stated that hyperbole is a figure of speech data collection itself was started by that has statement containing exaggeration. downloading the songs and the lyrics. After Richardson (2006: 165, as cited in Raisa, that, the researcher listened to the songs 2017) explains symbol as a person, object, while reading the lyrics for several times. image, word, or event that evokes a range After that, she attempted to find the word, of additional meaning beyond and usually phrase, and sentence which contain more abstract than its literal significance. figurative language by underlining them. Siallagan (2017:55) says that in a song, we can find lyrics which complete and After that, she made a note of those 378 figurative language. The researcher used I've been technique of data analysis based on Miles and Huberman’s theory. According to wearing for Miles and Huberman (1994:10) there are months three steps used in analyzing data, they are: data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing and verification. 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