By:Siti Aisyah

S200160023

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS ON “WAITING OUTSIDE THE

LINES” LYRIC BY GREYSON CHANCE

What we want to discuss?

Introduction

Semantics

Research Method

Research Finding & Discussion

Conclusion &

Suggestion

introductionCommunication is the action or process of communicating. Oxford (1995:230).

When all people speak in a communication is a process. And then,

there must be both sender and receiver. Sometimes, all people only

talk interaction not only directly interact with Communicator alone, but it can communication through songs, poems etc. Communication mainly

through song means something more meaningful. Human beings need language as their communication

because language as the branch of linguistic

In the branch of linguistics, semantics is the study about all of the aspects of meaning outside the gramatical of language which different with morphology and syntax that concern with gramatical of language. In this paper, the writer interest to discuss about semantic analysis on song lyrics because semantics is one of the important aspect in linguistics and song lyric is also have different meaning to be analyzed.

What is semantic?

Lexical Meaning

Contextual

Meaning

According to Charles W. Kreidler (1998:3) semantic is the

systematic study of meaning and linguistic semantic is the study of how languages organize and express meanings. Its means

that, meaning in linguistic semantic was very needed for us

to limit ourselves to the expression of meanings in a

single language. Charles said there were three disciplines were concerned with the systematic

study of meaning, in itself: psychology, philosophy and

linguistics.

What is semantic

s?

psychologist

Philosophies

Linguistic

• interest in how individual humans learn

• how they retain, recall or loss information. • concerned with how we know, how any particular fact that we know

• accept as true was related to other possible facts.

• want to understand how language works

Lexical Meanin

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According to Harimurti (1982:103) in Mansoer Pateda book said that lexical meaning is the meaning of the word when the word is seen in isolation, either in form or shape lexeme affixes whose meaning more or less fixed, as can be read in a particular language dictionary.

Contextual

Meaning

Contextual meaning is the meaning according to the context. According to Abdul Chaer (2007:290), Contextual meaning is the meaning of a lexeme or word inside a context. A contextual definition is also a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression containing its explanation.

According Mansoer Petada (116-2001), Contextual meaning could be regarded as a situational meaning. It raised as a result of the relationship between speech and context. It took the form of a lot of things. There are some contexts here, they are: • the first context organs, including those relating to gender,

position the speaker, the speaker or the listener age , socio-economic background speaker or the listener.

• The second context of the situation, such a situation is safe or noisy situations.

• The third context purposes, such as asking or expecting something.

• The fourth context of whether or not a formal conversation.

• The fifth context of the speaker or the listener’s mood such as afraid, excited, upset or angry.

• The sixth time context, for example, night or day. • Context seventh place, for example where at school, at

home, in the field, etc. • Eighth object context, mean what the focus of the

conversation.• Ninth context fittings speak or hear the speaker or the

listener.• Tenth linguistic context that does meet the rules of the

language used by both sides.• Eleventh context of language, meaning the language used.

However, the contextual meaning could be regarded to the situation, where the time, the language usage environment.

Descriptive Qualitative

Analyzed Lexical

meaning & contextual meaning

Explanation

Sentences lyric

Research Finding and Discussion

• The first stanza:Try to have no regretsEven if it’s just tonightHow you gonna walk aheadIf you keep living blind

From this stanza I just want to use the words “Blind” to explain the lexical and contextual meaning. The word “Blind” in this lyric consider as an adjective. The lexical meaning of “blind” is unable to see; sightless. In the contextual meaning “blind” means that living in the darkness or do not want to look forward of the future.

• The second stanza:I’m waiting, waiting, just waitingI’m waiting, waiting outside the linesWaiting outside the lines

From this stanza, the lexical meaning of the word “waiting” is the action of staying where one is delaying action until a particular time or until something else happens. In the contextual meaning, the word “waiting” means that the singer want to give the motivation to the listeners and make the listeners believe that the singer always be there and wait them until they can be successful person.

• The third stanza:Stuck in the same positionYou deserve so much moreThere’s a whole world around usJust waiting to be explored

From this stanza, I will use the word “world” in line 3 that consider as a noun. The lexical meaning of the word “world” is the earth, together with all of its countries, peoples, societies, institution and natural features. In the contextual meaning, it can be interpreted as a science or something that can to be learned and explored to make us more creative and productive.

• The fourth stanza:Don’t wanna have to force you to smileI’m here to help you notice the rainbowCause I knowWhat’s in you is out there

From this stanza, the word “rainbow” consider as a noun. The lexical meaning of the word “rainbow” is an arch of colors formed in the sky in certain circumstances, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun’s light by rain or other water droplets in the atmosphere. In the contextual meaning, the word “rainbow” can be defined as the future life or the meaning of true life. The singer wants the listeners know that there are so many possibilities if they believe and take every opportunity in their life.

Conclusion and Suggestion• The lexical meaning here is the meaning of the terms used in the lyric describe in the lexicon or dictionary. The researcher explained those as suitable as were wrote in general dictionary and it fairly different from the meaning in context. The contextual meaning is the terms explained the actual meaning according to the situation in which they were used. Thus, in this discussion is interesting event unique to be learned in order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpreted.• Finally, the researcher suggest that in listening the songs not only just listen and enjoy it but also we have to know the meaning about that song itself to take the lesson from the lyric. So we can get the positive thing to motivate our self.

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