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AN ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN SELECTED MAHER ZAIN’S SONGS LYRICS A Thesis Submitted to Letters and Humanities Faculty In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Strata 1 ARMAWANSYAH 1111026000045 ENGLISH LETTERS DEPARTEMENT LETTERS AND HUMANITIES FACULTY STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA 2016 ABSTRACT Armawansyah, An Analysis of Connotative Meaning In Selected Maher Zain‟s Song Lyrics. Thesis: English Letters Department, Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2016. This research focuses on analyzing connotative meaning inMaher Zain‟s song lyrics and also to find the message that delivered by Maher Zain. The reason for choosing a song lyrics as the main sources of data because the connotative meaning is common in the song lyrics. The song lyrics choosen as the main sources of data are Forgive Me, Hold My Hand, Thank You Allah, Palestine Will Be Free and My Little Girl. The method of this research is qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data. Within the lyrics,it is found 3 kinds of connotative meaning such as positive connotation, neutral connotation and negative connotation. From the lyrics of the song, it is found six positive connotations, four neutral connotations, and four negative connotations. InForgive Me and Thank You Allah, Maher Zain convince the relations between human to Allah such as to keep from lust and the sense of thanking to Allah swt. Meanwhile, the lyrics of Hold My Hand, Palestine Will be Free, and My Little Girl tell about how to maintain relation to the others, such as caring each others, avoid the war that harm human race, and take care the children as a given from Allah. Positive connotation is most uses in the song lyrics of Maher Zain‟s because to delivere the message to the listener in an encouraging way. Uses neutral connotation to change something that make the listener easy to understand what the author means to and uses negative connotation to deliver something bad and hated in islam. Overall, the writer found connotative meaning occurs in partial of the lyric, and the denotative meaning occurs in majority of the lyric. The message of the lyric is delivered by Maher Zain in a good structure by using positive connotative meaning. i iv DECLARATION I hereby declare that this submission is my own work and that, to the best my knowledge and belief. It contains no material previously published and written by another person nor material which to a substantial extent has been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma of the University or other Institute of higher learning, except where due acknowledgement has been in the text. Jakarta, December 17th, 2015 Armawansyah iv v ACKNOWLEDGMENT In the name of Allah the most Gracious, the Most Merciful Alhamdulillahi robbil alaamiin, all praises to Allah SWT, Almighty and Merciful, the Great Creator and The Lord of Universe, for guiding the writer amazingly and mysteriously during the process of this research. Peace and salutation are upon the greatest prophet, Muhammad SAW, his family, and his companions. This work cannot be completed without a great deal of help from many people, especially Drs. Saefudin, M.Pd. the writer‟s thesis advisor on writing this thesis. The deepest gratitude for his guidance, helpful correction, patient, patient, cooperation, time, and kindness until this thesis finished. The writer also would like to express his deepest gratitude to the individuals for helping her finishing this thesis and for their contribution in the process of writing until it had become a complete work. They are as follows: 1. Mr. Prof. Dr. Sukron Kamala, M. Ag., as the dean of Letters and Humanities Faculty, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. 2. Mr. Drs. Saefudin, M.Pd, as the head of English Latters Department and also as the writer‟s advisor for guiding and suggesting her in making a good thesis from the begining until the end of writing. 3. Mrs. Elve Oktafiyani, M.Hum, as the secretary of English Letters Department. v vi 4. Dr. H. Muhammad Farkhan, M.Pd, the Vice Dean of Letters and Humanities Faculty. 5. All of the lecturers in English Letters Department for teaching his many things during study. 6. All the staff of library and academic of Adab and Humanities Faculty and state Islamic University. 7. The writer‟s „Big family‟ especially his father Asnawi. 8. The writer‟s „Big family‟ in PAMALAYU BABEL 9. All his closed and beloved friends in English Letters Department 2011, who have been accompanying him from the first semester. May allah SWT, the almaighty and the merceful, bless them all. The writer realizes that this paper is not fully perfect. Therefore, the writer would like to accept any constructive suggestion to make this paper better. Jakarta, February 12th , 2016 The writer vi vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT .................................................................................................... i APPROVEMENT .......................................................................................... ii LEGALIZATION .......................................................................................... iii DECLARATION ............................................................................................ iv ACKNOWLEDGMENT ............................................................................... v TABLE OF CONTENT ................................................................................. vii CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION .................................................................. 1 A. Background of Study ........................................................................... 1 B. Focus of the Study ................................................................................ 3 C. Research Question ................................................................................ 4 D. Significance of the Study ..................................................................... 4 E. Research Methodology......................................................................... 4 1. The Objective of Research ............................................................. 4 2. The Method of Research ................................................................ 5 3. The Technique of Collecting and Data Analysis ........................... 5 4. The Instrument of Research ........................................................... 6 5. Unit of Analysis ............................................................................. 6 CHAPTER II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ..................................... 7 A. Previous Research ................................................................................ 7 B. Semantics and Meanings ...................................................................... 9 vii viii 1. Semantics ....................................................................................... 9 2. Meaning.......................................................................................... 12 2.1 Term of Meaning...................................................................... 12 2.2 Scope of Meaning .................................................................... 13 3. Kind of meaning ............................................................................. 14 C. Linguistics and Speaker Meaning ........................................................ 19 D. Connotation of Song Lyrics ................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS ..................................................... 27 A. Data Description................................................................................... 27 B. The Data Analysis ................................................................................ 29 CHAPTER IV CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ........................... 43 A. Conclusions .......................................................................................... 43 B. Suggestions .......................................................................................... 44 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................ 45 APPENDICIES ................................................................................................ 47 viii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study As the social human being We are needs to interact with each other. Language is the principal means of human being to communicate with each other.1 It is used to express our reaction to certain situations, and to reveal our thoughts, ideas, emotions and feelings. Language also plays important roles to the development of human and technological civilization. Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbol by means of which social group cooperates.2 Communication can be built if there is an understanding between speaker and the hearer. The main aim is to indicate something or some relations or even some ideas, and it can be shown or called as it is meaning. In this case, meaning is important and significant. If the hearer cannot comprehend the meanings of the speaker try to reveal, the meaning won‟t be delivered smoothly. Meaning can be studied through scientific study of language called Linguistics. The branch of Linguistics which deals with meaning is called Semantics. In Semantics, meaning is divided into two parts, literal meaning and non-literal meaning. Literal means based on the actual words. Non-literal meaning 1Lyons, J. 1981. Language and Linguistics: