SEMANTICS ANALYSIS OF THE SONGS

Abstract

Namely studying the meaning of the language used both from humans and those contained in songs or other literary works. This branch is an important one, and there are two namely lexical meaning and contextual meaning. By listening to the song, we can gain knowledge about literary appreciation and the background of the song. Therefore, researchers are often interested in analyzing the various meanings used in songs. After that he chooses songs that contain semantics, reads and listens to the lyrics to understand the content of the songs, conducts and analyzes the collected data and makes conclusions related to lexical meaning and contextual meaning. The researcher hopes that this research is useful for other researchers who want to know more about semantics. Moreover, semantics is an important and interesting branch of linguistics to study, especially if it is applied to literary works, such as songs or poetry and others.