Semantics analysis on figurative language in Avril Lavigne's song lyrics of Head Above Water album

Pidiamoy, Wida (2020) Semantics analysis on figurative language in Avril Lavigne's song lyrics of Head Above Water album. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

Semantics is one branch of linguistics that studies of language meaning. Semantics, according to Griffiths (2006, p.15), is the study of the sentence meaning coded in the overall sentences based on the elementary meaning of the sentence units. Figurative language is an expression of language that has more than one meaning to states something different from what really means. There are several types of figurative language, but according to Cruse’s (2006, p.63), the main ones that have attracted the attention of linguists such as euphemism, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, simile, and understatement or litotes. The object of this research are Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics of Head Above Water album. These songs contain some figurative languages. There are some people, especially the EFL students, they still confuse to interpret and determine the meaning of English song lyrics and contain some figurative languages. The use of figurative language in song lyrics has big influences to the themes of songs. Each types of figurative language has their own function on supporting a specific theme.This study focus on finding out 1) What types of figurative language are used in Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics of Head Above Water album? 2) What kinds of themes are found in Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics of Head Above Water album that supported by figurative language? The purposes of this research are 1) to find out and describe types of figurative language used in Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics of Head Above Water album, and 2) To find out the kinds of themes found in Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics of Head Above Water album that supported by figurative language. This research apply a qualitative approach and descriptive method. This approach and method are suitable to analyze Avril Lavigne’s song lyrics. Qualitative approach and descriptive method will describe the data descriptively. The result of this research found that there are 105 figurative language in Avril Lavigne’s songs, those are 6 euphemisms, 24 hyperboles, 3 ironies, 46 metaphors, 6 metonymies, 14 similes, and 6 litotes. The theme of love is highly supported by hyperboles and metaphors. The theme of life is highly supported by metaphors. Then, the theme of toxic relationship is highly supported by metaphors. The theme of broken heart is highly supported by hyperboles and metaphors. Figurative language has big influences to the themes in these song lyrics because it can bring the readers or listeners deeper into the theme of song lyrics without the author explains it explicitly.

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