CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Humans as social beings communicate with each
other in their daily life. We communicate
and interact in various ways, oneof them by using language. Without language is difficult for humans to communicate. We
canexpress our ideas, opinions, or emotions which we want to convey by language.
Palmer (1976:5) says: “Language
can be viewed as a communication system that relates something to be communicated with
something that communicate, a message on the one hand with a set of signs or symbols on the
other”. When learning a language, we learn the agreed upon meanings of certain strings of
soundsand we learn how to combine these meaningful
units into larger units that also convey meaning. The field in linguistics that
studies the meaning is semantics. As
stated by Saeed (2009:3) “Semantics is the study of meaning communicated through language”.
Semantics as the study of
linguistics objects, such as word, phrase and sentence in a language. In other words, semantics studies
the meaning of word phrase and sentence.
Meaning of a phrase or sentence
depends onmeaning of its words and how the words structurally combined. One part of Semantics
knowledge is meaning properties and relations .In this thesis, the writer explained about
both meaning properties and meaning relation.
“Meaning properties are one of
several features or components which together can be said to make up the meaning of a word or
utterance” (Lyons, 1977:57). “There are five kinds of meaning properties, they are
meaningfulness, anomaly, contradictory, ambiguity, and redundancy (Leech, 1977:57). “Lexical
relations are relationship of the meaning of a word to the other” (Bolinger, 1968:11). It includes
synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy (Palmer 1976:57-81).
There are many objects that we
can analyze that have meaning properties and relation such as: novel, short story, songs, newspaper,
and magazine. Thisthesis analyze songs, more precisely is Paramore’s Songs Album Brand New
Eyes.
Paramore is an American rock band
from Franklin, Tennessee, formed in 2004. The band currently consists of lead vocalist
Hayley Williams, bassist Jeremy Davis, and guitarist Taylor York. Brand New Eyesis the third album
by Americanrock band Paramore, released September
29, 2009 through Fueled by Ramen in the United States and Canada.
Below are some examples meaning
properties and lexical relations found in Paramore’s songs album Brand New Eyes: 1. When
I was younger I saw my daddy cry (The Only Exception) 2. a. I
best be on my way out (Ignorance) b. The
worst part is that this, this could be you (Feeling Sorry) 3. a.
You can’t be too careful anymore (Careful) b. You’ve got to reach out a little more
(Careful) 4. I
could follow you to the beginning just to relive the start (All I Wanted) Sentence (1), When I was younger I saw my
daddy cryrefers to meaningfulness because the main idea of the sentence can be easily
recognized, and it does not reflect another meaning. It has no characteristics of anomaly
and ambiguity. The existence of this expression is to state that she saw her daddy cried when
she was young. The type of sentence is complex sentence. Sentence (2), a. I best be on my way
out (Ignorance)b. The worst part is that this, this could be you (Feeling Sorry) refers to
antonymy because it contains opposite meaning, that is worstand best. Worst means ‘the
poorest qualityor lowest standard’ and bestmeans ’most excellent thing or person; to the
greatest extent’. Sentence (3), a. You can’t be too careful anymore (Careful) b. You’ve got to
reach out a little more (Careful) refers to homonymy because the words twoand toohave
different meaning but they have the same pronunciations. The words too/tu:/ means also;
to a higher degree or more than is allowed; The word two /tu:/ means the number. Sentence
(4), I could follow you to the beginning just to relive the startrefers to synonymy because
it contains nearly the same meaning, that is beginningand start. Beginningmeans ‘starting point’ and
startmeans ‘begin doing something or
(cause something to) start happening’.
In Paramore’s Song Album Brand
New Eyeswe can find many kinds of meaning properties and relation that is why the writer
would like to analyze the meaning properties and its relation found in Paramore’s Song
Album Brand New Eyes. The writer is interested to choose this album to be analyzed because this
song’s album makes Paramore become famous,
Brand New Eyesis the outpouring of the heart of Hayley Williams (Paramore’s vocalist) from her life and experience that
she has been through. In addition Paramore has won many awards for a wide variety of music
awards such as: Outstanding achievements for American artists in the record industryin
American Music Awards (2013), Album Rock award for “Brand New Eyes” at the Teen
Choice Awards (2010), Best Alternativein MTV Europe Music Awards (2010), Best International
Bandin Shockwaves NME Awards (2010), International
Artistin MTV Video Music Brazil (2008), Favorite Rock Band award at the th People’s Choice Awards and many more. All
ofthe awards prove that Paramore has a good
quality in music. Paramore tells to the readers about life and give message in
their lyrics that is why many people
like them. It can be seen from the direct and indirect messages contained in these songs. So that is why the
writer is interested in analyzing meaning properties and relations inParamore’s song
album Brand New Eyes.
1.2 The Identification of problem 1. The types of meaning properties and meaning
relations are found in Paramore’s Song Album
Brand New Eyes.
2. The most dominant type of
meaning properties and meaning relations used in Paramore’s Song Album Brand New Eyes.
3. The reason why one of type of
meaning properties and relations become the most dominant type.
1.3 Formulation of the problem Based on the background of the analysis, some
problems of the analysis have been identified as follows: 1. What
types of meaning properties and meaning relations are found in Paramore’s Song Album Brand New Eyes? 2.
Which is the most dominant type of meaning properties and meaning
relations used in Paramore’s Song Album
Brand New Eyes? 3. How could one of type of meaning properties
and relations become the most dominant type?
1.4 Objectives of the Study Today as a language expands in many different
ways, and produce different and new words.
One of the braches of linguistics thatstudies the meaning which is expressed in
language is called semantics. Instudying
the semantics properties, meaning properties is one of it which is interesting and important to be
observed. By writing down this analysis, the writer does expect that she can achieve some
objectives. The objectives of the analysis deal with the problems of analysis above are: 1. To find out the types of meaning
properties and meaning relations found in Paramore’s Song Album Brand New Eyes.
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