CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
This chapter consists of background of the study,
problem of the study, objectives of the
study, scope and limitation of the study, significance of the study, definition of key the terms.
1.1 Background of The Study Language is the main instrumentof
communication; it cannot be separated
from human being. We use language to express our feeling, respond the phenomena, share an idea, and also
criticize.Due to these facts, people realize that language plays an important role in their
daily life.
In communication with other
people either in oral or written forms, the media we used must be a language. Here, the
language we used ought to be meaningful
and understandable in spite of avoiding misunderstanding and misinterpretation.
In linguistics, the study about
meaning of languages named as semantic.
Jean Godby, in her book language files (1982:2) stated that semantic is the study of meaning, how words and sentences
are related to the real imaginary object
they refer to and the situation theydescribe, also Fromkin (1981:164) stated that semantics is the study of linguistic
meaning of words, phrases and sentences.
According to the definition of
semantic above, we can concludethat semantic is the study of meaning in words, phrases and
sentence form.
In semantic itself, there are
several levels of meaning that studied by linguists, they are lexical meaning, sentence
meaning and discourse meaning. As laurel
Briton (131: 2000) stated that semantic is the study of linguistic meaning, we can study meaning on a number of different
levels: lexical semantics is the study
of meaning of individual word (lexical items), sentence semantics is the study of meaning of semantic relationship
holding among the part of sentence and text
(discourse) semantics is the study of meaning ofextended discourse (spoken or written) and semantic relationship holding
among utterances.
Lexical meaning is the meaning of
word in isolation, and usually considered
to be the meaning of words. This is the one usually given by the dictionary. The term “lexical meaning”
interpreted as the meaning of the lexemes depends upon the meaning of the sentencesin
which they occur. Lyon (1984:138).
Syamsuri, in analysis
language(1978:14) stated that lexical meaning is the meaning of word it self beyond the sentence
composition. Based on description above
about lexical meaning, the important parts in lexical meaning are word meaning in isolation or vocabulary and when
the vocabulary occurred inside sentence
construction.
The study of lexical meaning
became more important when the word or
lexical items combined into sentence, because sometime we found the word have the different interpretation when it
constructed into a sentences because of our
mental storehouse about one lexeme just from the dictionary, but the meaning of words in dictionary can only changed when
it put into the sentence form.
Therefore the study of lexical
meaning became more crucial.
There are many reasons why the
researcher chooses System Of A Down’s
lyrics as the object of his research, besides the researcher tries to expose the meaning that contains inside his rock
music, also the researcher wants to prove to some lyrics which are taken from bible was
really associated to religious term or
only being some strategiesto popularize their songs. That is why semantics is important in this research. Other reason isto
change people stereotype about rock music
that assumed as violence. Knowing the real meaning of the song becomes an important aspect to changepeople’s views on
rock music.
There are many previous study
investigating semantics namely: “(semantic
analysis on the poemson foreign song)” done by Anita Nurmayanti(2003),that she studied the kinds of
meaning whether lexical, sentential and
discourse meaning. The object of his research is in the form poems with descriptive qualitative researchdesign
then she found connotation and denotation
mostly used found in the lyrics ofher research’s object, and also other research on title “(Semanticanalysis on the
translation lyrics of invocation song by
al-mahabatain done by Elis SyarifatulHidayah (2003) that she studied the meaning of words, phrases and discourseswith
descriptive qualitative research design
then she found mostly the component of sentential meaning analysis influenced all of the songs.
Other research that had been
doneby Luqman (2007) “a study of lexical
meaning on the lyrics of Metallica’s song” has the same part of meaning analysis that is lexical analysis. In his
research he found mostly figurative language
used by the composer. As the example is the word sainthas the meaning of someone who heals the world.
Otherwise, in this research, the
researcher limits his study on kinds of meaning
especially in lexical meaning namely denotation and connotation, because the researcher thinks that
lexicalmeaning is the area which is studied by linguists, but for sentential and discourse
meaning are the area of language philosopher.
And also the researcher only focused on connotation and denotation term in the lyrics composed by System Of A
Down.
Based on description above the
researcher is interested in analyzing the meaning of System Of A Down’s songs through
the lexical meaning that involves in
semantics theories in the way of interpretation. Also the researcher supposes
to know about massages found in these
lyrics in the way of intended meaning.
Therefore the writer determines
to choose the research under the title: A study on lexical meaning found in the lyrics of System
Of A Down’s songs.
1.2 Problems of The Study Based on the background of the study, this
research is carried out to answer the
following questions: 1. What are lexical meanings found in the lyrics
of System of A Down’s songs? 2. What
are the massages found in the lyrics of System of A Down’s songs? 1.3
Objectives of The Study Related to the
problem of the study the researcher tries to find the objectives of this study: 1. to
present the description of lexical meaning found in the lyrics of system of a down’s songs 2. to
know the massages found in the lyrics of system of a down’s songs 1.4 Scope and Limitation of The Study The researcher only limits the study on
semantics theories about lexical meaning
that belongs to Lyons contribution of lexical semantic as the way to research the meaning on the lyricsof some
literary works namely song.
And also the lyrics that will be
analyzed are the lyrics of system of a down’s
songs which are concern with religious term. There are some lyrics of system of a down’s songs: NO TITLE
ALBUM 01 Chop shuy Toxicity 02 Aerials
Toxicity 03 Soldier side
System of a down 04
Tentative Steal this album! 1.5 Significance of The Study This research gives some contribution
generally for the study of semantics
specifically for lexical semantics, also expected to be useful for English teacher in determining the word meaning of
English vocabularies meaning and their
students who paid attention more to lexical semantics.
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