A semantic analysis on the lyrics of Christian Bautista

ABSTRACT

Knowing and understanding what people say to US is not an easy thing to do. We need to learn several linguistic branches such as semiotics, morphology, pragmatics and semantics. To understand someone utterance means to know the intended messages of that person (included the intended meaning). Semantics as one 0ا linguistics branches is concern about that. This branch is important one, and there arc including lexical meaning, sentential meaning and discoursial meaning such the discussion in this thesis. One poem of literature is poem, it can be expressed in a song and it represent a thought, a feeling and the willingness of the composer.

Furthermore, a composer also has great chooses to express his idea.

There are some reasons the researcher chooses this topic. By listening to the song, we can get knowledge about appreciates literature and the background of the song.

Therefore, the researcher was interested in analyzing the kind of meaning used in the lyrics of Christian Bautista. The researcher dedicates to give the title of this thesis ،،A Semantic Analysis on the Lyrics of Christian Bautista”.

The problems of this study are what are the meanings found in Christian Bautista،? The researcher limits the discussion of her thesis based on the three kinds of meanings stated above. The researcher takes six songs from the first album produced in the last of 2004 and become famous in Indonesia in 2005.

This study uses descriptive qualitative method because the researcher would analyze and interpret the research object of Christian Bautista’s songs. The step to obtain the data is by collecting sources of data from Bautista’s cassettes and from internet in www.christianbautistarock.com, selecting the songs which contain of semantic, reading and listening to the lyrics to understand the content of the songs, conducting and analyzing the collected data and make conclusion.

After conducting the study, the results of this study are as follows: (1) related to lexical meaning, most of the song consists of synonym, antonym, hyponym, denotation, connotation, homonym, homophone, polysemy, ambiguity and figurative language. While (2) related to sentential meaning, most of the songs consist speech act, presupposition, entailment, idioms and deixis. And the last (3) related to discoursial meaning, the song dominated by cohesion which explains about substitution, ellipsis, reference and conjunction.

The researcher expects this study is useful for the other researcher who is eager to know more about semantic. Moreover semantic as an important branch of linguistics is interesting to be studied especially when it is applied to literary works, such as songs, poem or prose. But it does not mean that a linguistics branch is monotonous. We can merge those things and make them as interesting study. By this study, we can get two profits at the same time. We do not comprehend our skill in certain literary works but also we can get a valuable analyzing of the song. In this way the reason of the researcher chooses this topic and it is important for further researcher to consider it as an interesting challenge to do.