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Download Download JIPIS Jurnal Ilmu Pendidikan dan Ilmu Sosial SOCIAL SETTING AND MESSAGES IN MAHER ZAIN’S SELECTED SONGS Imam Sudarmaji English Language Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Islam Syekh-Yusuf [email protected] Abstract This article presents the analysis of social setting in Maher Zain’s selected songs in an effort to discover the messages in the songs. In order to find out the social setting and messages hidden in the songs, the sociolinguistic theory is used to uncover the messages of the social setting found in Maher Zain’s selected songs. Keywords: messages, social settings, sociolinguistic theory, song, Maher Zain 1. Introduction have power to influence a person and In writing song lyrics, writer tries to deliver good messages. invite people who have same view and The writer merely focuses on mind to be better, so that the people can analyzing selected songs in order to learn from the lyrics. The song writer simplify the readers in understanding the sometime uses figurative language that social settings that the writer presents. The makes the listener interested in listening to song writer limits or focuses only on the the song. For example; simile metaphor, title “Social Setting in Maher Zain’s personification, hyperbole in the world, Selected Songs”. phrase, or sentences to explain the idea of Based on the explanation above, the the song. writer formulates the questions as follows: Singer, song writer and also producer a. What are the social settings found in Maher Zain is the new star of Modern Maher Zain’s selected songs? Islamic Music with his meaningful song b. What are the massages hidden in Maher that has an aim to inspire, entertain people Zain’s selected songs? and send a message of peace and hope to the world. With much more Facebook, 2. Theoretical Framework Instagram and Twitter fans than any other A. Sociolinguistics Muslimartist. He released his debut album According to Ronald (2006) Thank You, and internationally successful “Sociolinguistics is ‘the study of album produced by Awakening Records in language in relation to society,’ whereas 2009 got Platinum Certifications from the sociology of language is ‘the study Warner Music Malaysia and Sony Music of society in relation to language.’ In Indonesia. He released his follow up album other words, in sociolinguistics we study Forgive Me in April 2012 under same language and society in order to find out production company with forth times as much as we can about what kind of Platinum Certification form Warner Music thing language is, and in the sociology Malaysia. of language we reverse the direction of The lyric of Maher Zain songs are our interest. interesting to listen and easy to understand According to Cloran (2011), and he also writes based on his experiences. sociolinguistic has some functions as In every song contained many words which follow: 24 JIP I S V o l . 2 8 N o . 1 J a n u a r i - J u n i 2 0 1 9 | 25 1) Orientation expresses the idea that the subject in 2) Uses of language (register & genre) question is “intelligent”. 3) Uses of language (semantic variation) 4) Personification 4) Future directions Personification is figuring of 5) Literature (selected) speech that comparison giving extinct objects with human characteristic. B. Figurative Language Georgia Archibald (2001:11) said that Figurative language is study of “Personification gives human alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor, characteristic to things or ideas”. simile, hyperbole, personification, and 5) Understatement idiom. Figure of speech is a definition Understatement is saying less than from the usual form of expression or one means that may exist in what are common way of thinking in an effort to said or merely in how one say it. obtain a more intense effect of 6) Hyperbole disclosure. Figurative language consists Greta Barclay L. (1998:46) are: Hyperbole is a figure of speech. It is 1) Metaphor device which uses a ridiculous The word metaphor was defined as exaggeration to give statement impact. a novel or poetic linguistic expression We hear it and use it frequently in every where one or more words for a concept conversation and read it often in books, are used outside of its normal newspaper, and magazines. It is so conventional meaning to express a common that we are often not aware that similar concept (Lakoff, 2011:1). From we are using this technique. The good the statement, the metaphor is the way to part is that people understand even express a feeling in the words play to though we are using hyperbole. become the meaningful words. So, from 7) Synecdoche the metaphors which are arranged in the Synecdoche is a literary device in lyric, the writer can analyze what which of something represents the whole message that the singer wants to deliver. or it may use a whole to represent a part. 2) Simile 8) Idiom Simile is comparison between two Gaines (1986) said that an idiom is different things, and usually used a word an expression that conveys something like, as, or so. A simile uses the words different from its literal meaning, and like or as to tell us that two very that cannot be guessed from the different things are similar. meanings of its individual words. 3) Litotes “Between a rock and a hard place” is an Litotes is a figure of speech that idiom that means “in a difficult or bad consists of an understatement that position with no good way of getting out confirm by negating the opposite. of it.” What makes an idiom different Litotes is commonly used in the from a figure of speech is that its employment of double negatives, for nonliteral meaning is already familiar to example “not unintelligent”. Litotes are speakers of the language. meant to express to opposite to word being used, so “not unintelligent’ 26 | Imam Sudarmaji C. Music sung. It means that song is the group of Language and music are peculiar words which is delivered with the music or characteristics of human beings. The intonation as its background. In the other capability of producing and enjoying side; Paul (2014) has stated about the song language and music appears in every that the song reflects an attempt by a single human society, regardless of the richness of author or editor to compose his literary its culture (Nettl, 2015). Importantly, piece with artistic skill and rhetorical unity. language and music complement each other It means, the songs have some literary in many different ways. For instance, words which is artistic and they have some looking at music and language in terms of objects that the author or editor want to features, we can observe that music deliver. By analyzing songs, we will be able organizes pitch and rhythm in ways that to know, who, where, why, and what the language does not, and it lacks the meanings or messages of the song is specificity of language in terms of semantic attempted and what the imageries style that meaning. On the other hand, language is the author of the song used in delivering the built from categories that are absent in messages inside its songs. music (e.g., nouns and verbs), whereas Song lyric is the verbal symbol that music seems to have a deeper power over created by human. Human is the creature our emotions than does ordinary speech. that knows how to react not only in the Importantly, language and music physical environment but also in the complement each other in many different symbols that they made (Rivers, 2003:28). ways. For instance, looking at music and From the explanation above, it can be language in terms of features, we can concluded that song lyric is symbolic observe that music organizes pitch and reaction of human. It is a response of rhythm in ways that language does not, and everything that happened and felt by their it lacks the specificity of language in terms physical environment and it is influenced of semantic meaning. On the other hand, by common sense and rationality. Symbol language is built from categories that are is used by human to understand a reality absent in music (e.g., nouns and verbs), cannot be seen directly, but it can be seen whereas music seems to have a deeper and felt by human senses. This stimulus is power over our emotions than does processed and created by mind. Then, the ordinary speech. Composers, musicians, concept or the specific interpretation will be and researchers in poetry and literature formed a specific meaning appropriate with alike have been long fascinated by the what will be pronounced. combination of language and music, even since the time of the earliest written records 3. Research Methodology of music encountered in musical settings Based on the formulation and for poetry; despite this interest, and despite objectives of the problems the writer the long history of the interaction between analyzes, investigates and uses library and music and lyrics. media research. a. Library research, the writer searches D. Songs and Lyrics some information and a reference from Field (2008) stated that song is a the English books, the writer takes short piece of music with words which are several statements from the English JIP I S V o l . 2 8 N o . 1 J a n u a r i - J u n i 2 0 1 9 | 27 book which are related and also internet as the important sources to collect the In this song the lyric is based on data in completing the paper. song writer’s experience and related b. Media research, it is used by the writer with background of the singer.
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