scholarly journals An Analysis of the Symbol in Westlife's Song Lyrics

Author(s):  
Hanna Eka Rosita ◽  
Bambang Purwanto ◽  
Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi

Song is one example of literature. Listening song is enjoyable activity, but the listener cannot get a pleasure if they do not understand the meaning in the song. Sometimes song consists of symbol to describe the meaning of a song. Based on the reason, it brought the researcher to find out the symbol and meaning in the song lyrics and to explain the impacts of symbol toward real life. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method. Through this method the researcher tried to analyze, explain, and find out the meaning of the symbols by using Charles Sanders Pierce’s theory. In this case, Charles Sanders Pierce developed a triadic model in illustrating the definition of the sign as a symbol. The triadic model consisted of three components; representamen, object and interpretant. The unit analysis of this study were Westlife’s songs, there were more than 145 songs in 11 albums. Because of the large amount of the songs, the researcher chose 7 songs from the Greatest Album of Westlife that are Swear it Again, If I Let You Go, Flying without Wings, I Have a Dream, My Love, Uptown Girl, and You Raise Me Up. This study contained 5 kinds of symbols that were symbol of color (12 items), symbol of thing (19 items), symbol of situation (18 items), symbol of sound (5 items), and symbol of imaginative (7 items). Furthermore, the most dominant symbol was symbol of thing. Symbols brought some impacts to real life to help the listeners or the readers to understand the real meaning toward real life.   Keywords: Symbol; song; semiotics; westlife

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-46
Author(s):  
Mac Aditiawarman ◽  
Sonya Putri Rahmadani

Song is a series of words that are obtained from the inspiration of everyday life. a series of words arranged in such a way that they contain rhythm and meaning that will be conveyed to the listener. Songs are part of literary works. Listening to songs is a very fun activity. sometimes the listener just listens to it and doesn't understand the symbols and meanings in the song. sometimes the song consists of symbols to describe the feelings of the composer. Based on the reason, it brought the reseasrcher to find out the symbol and  application of Symbol in the song lyrics and To explain the meaning songs in Westlife’s Coast to Coast Album. This research applied a descriptive qualitative method. Through this method the researcher Tried to analyze, explain,and find out the symbols by using Charles Sanders Pierce’s theory. In this case, Charles Sanders Pierce developed a triadic model in illustrating the definition of the sign as a symbol. The triadic model consisted of three components; representamen, object and interpretant. In this research researcher taken the specific objects of the analysis were songs from Westlife the name of album was Coast to Coast. The song consist of seventeen songs, there were My love, What makes a man, I lay my love on you, When you’re looking like that, Close, Somebody needs you, Angel’s wing’s, Soledad, Puzzle of my heart, Dreams come true, No place that far, close your eyes, You make me feel, Loneliness knows me by name, Fragile heart, Every little thing you do, Uptown girl. The symbols found are empty heart, enthusiasm, spirit, motivation, loyalty, simplicity, strength, happiness, and sadness. Every lyrics written must have a message aimed at both listeners and readers. The message is directed with the intention of making them impress after listening to and reading the lyrics.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Suci Amalia ◽  
Safitri Hariani

This research is concerned with the criminal investigation done by the protagonist by the name of Joe Talbert in Allen Eskens’s novel entitled The Life We Bury. It aims to reveal Joe Talbert’s investigation on a criminal case to uncover the truth. The novel, books, journals and website relating to the criminal case are used as source of data. The data is analyzed by classifying the obtained data in two sub chapters related to the research problems of this study. The writers adopt the theory from Taber K (2006). They are the protagonist’s way in doing his criminal investigation and the results of his criminal investigation. This research uses descriptive qualitative method in analyzing the data. The finding shows that firstly there are two ways in getting information on the criminal investigation, such as doing inspection in the court of law and doing interview, and secondly that the results of his criminal investigation shows the truth of Carl’s real life and the real murderer.


Author(s):  
Judith-Anne MacKenzie ◽  
Aruna Nair

Course-focused and comprehensive, Textbook on Land Law continues to provide an interesting, accessible, and original account of contemporary land law. The seventeenth edition builds upon the book’s unique and straightforward approach. Using a fictional case study to illustrate the key principles of land law, the chapters demonstrate the real-life applications of a subject students often find very abstract, while clarifying complex areas and common points of confusion. The book consists of seven parts. Part I provides an introduction to estates and interests in land. Part II looks at the acquisition of estates in land. Part III considers the two legal estates of freehold and leasehold, and in particular looks in detail at the obligations in a leasehold estate, their enforcement and remedies for their breach. Part IV looks at trusts and proprietary estoppel. Part V is about licences and a review of the law relating to the family home. The next part considers third party rights, including mortgages, and the final part concludes with a consideration of the definition of ‘land’.


Author(s):  
Judith-Anne MacKenzie ◽  
Aruna Nair

Course-focused and comprehensive, Textbook on Land Law continues to provide an interesting, accessible, and original account of contemporary land law. The eighteenth edition builds upon the book’s unique and straightforward approach. Using a fictional case study to illustrate the key principles of land law, the chapters demonstrate the real-life applications of a subject students often find very abstract, while clarifying complex areas and common points of confusion. The book consists of seven parts. Part I provides an introduction to estates and interests in land. Part II looks at the acquisition of estates in land. Part III considers the two legal estates of freehold and leasehold, and in particular looks in detail at the obligations in a leasehold estate, their enforcement and remedies for their breach. Part IV looks at trusts and proprietary estoppel. Part V is about licences and a review of the law relating to the family home. The next part considers third party rights, including mortgages, and the final part concludes with a consideration of the definition of ‘land’.


1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Wayne Dye

Every culture has some standard of right and wrong. This is not fully discovered in a people's behavior, our author reminds us, but in their ideals. These ideals may, in essence, closely parallel the Decalogue; but this essence may be applied with widely varying emphases in the real life situations of different cultures. If the missionary, jealous for the essence of God's righteous demands, relies too heavily on the applications and emphases of his own culture, he may experience little conviction of sin in his hearers — and confused standards in the emerging church. Fully recognizing the dilemma this imposes on the cross-cultural witness, linguist-translator Dye finds hope and help in an ethnotheological approach to the problem.


SUAR BETANG ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
NFN Irwansyah

This study describes the conceptual metaphors of love in the lyrics of Taylor Swift's 1989 album. The purpose of this study is to describe the use of metaphors and conceptualize love-themed data. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with proficient free listening technique by taking song lyrics from Taylor Swift. The data source is song lyrics in Taylor Swift's 1989 album. The selection of the data sources is motivated by the fact that Taylor Swift is a singer who produces songs based on personal experiences. This makes the puns for the song more beautiful and poetic. The results show that the conceptualization of love metaphors found on Taylor Swift's 1989 album namely (1) love is a game, (2) love is fire, (3) heartbreak is the national anthem, (4) love is the object of trouble, (5) love is the throne, (6) love as glassware, (7) love as an object of color, (8) love is journey, (9) love is a sin, (10) love as a ship object, (11) love is life, (12) love is a trap, (13) love as an object falls, (14) love as an intoxicating object, (15) love is power and (16)  love as an object is hunted.AbstrakPenelitian ini mendeskripsikan metafora konseptual cinta dalam lirik lagu Taylor Swift di album 1989. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan penggunaan metafora dan mengonseptualisasikan data yang bertema cinta. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif dengan teknik simak bebas libat cakap dengan mengambil lirik lagu dari Taylor Swift. Sumber data yang digunakan ialah lirik-lirik lagu pada album 1989 milik Taylor Swift. Pemilihan sumber data dilatarbelakangi bahwa Taylor Swift seorang penyanyi yang menghasilkan lagu berdasarkan pengalaman pribadi bersama pasangannya. Hal ini memunculkan permainan kata-kata yang terkesan lebih indah dan puitis. Hasil identifikasi menunjukkan konseptualisasi metafora cinta yang ditemukan pada album 1989 milik Taylor Swift antara lain (1) cinta adalah permainan, (2) cinta adalah api, (3) patah hati adalah lagu kebangsaan, (4) cinta sebagai objek masalah, (5) cinta adalah takhta, (6) cinta sebagai barang pecah belah, (7) cinta sebagai objek warna, (8) cinta adalah perjalanan, (9) cinta sebagai perbuatan dosa, (10) cinta sebagai objek kapal, (11) cinta adalah kehidupan, (12) cinta adalah perangkap, (13) cinta sebagai objek yang jatuh, (14) cinta sebagai objek yang memabukkan, (15) cinta adalah kekuatan, dan (16) cinta sebagai objek yang diburu.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Fazriyani S Mahmud

Love is something that everyone may have. Even love is the right of every human being in the world so that everyone has the right to love and be loved by others. Generally love is a form of emotion that contains attraction, sexual desire, and attention to someone. This shows that love has several components in it including intimacy, passion, and commitment. This research is focused on analyzing love experiences by using the triangular theory of love by Sternberg on some of the characters in the novel Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. This research used a descriptive qualitative method and used Sternberg's theory to analyze the experience of love in the breaking dawn novel. The result of this research has three components in love including intimacy, passion, and commitment.Keywords: Love, Triangular of Love, Intimacy, Passion, Commitment


Author(s):  
Alexey A. Burykin ◽  
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The article analyses the names of the wolf in the eposes of the Mongolian and Turkic nations, which is of interest for defining the Mongolian and Turkic epic traditions and perceptions related to the wolf. One of the problems discussed by the author is the understanding of the Old Russian word-combination ‘босый волк’(off-white wolf) which appears in “The Song of Igor’s Campaign”. In the Mongolian folklore, a name of the wolf includes the word hалзн ‘a white mark or white stripe on the forehead of the animal’ which is inherent in the definition of a wolf by color. This specification allows us to eliminate all the fancy translations of the word combination ‘босый волк’(off-white wolf) and matches well the notion of the color of the wolf in the real life.


2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
Intan Tia Ajeng Aryani

The author investigated the use of AAVE by Brian Imanuel or Rich Brian in his rap song lyrics. This study aimed to identify the grammatical features of AAVE in Brian's Amen album. Further, this study was also explored the underlying effect on Brian's use of AAVE. This study applied a descriptive-qualitative method. The context of the data in this study was song lyrics. The results are as follows: Brian rap song lyrics' contained 7 out of AAVE's 13 grammatical features. Those are copula absence, invariant be, completive done, specialized auxiliaries, negation, nominal, and ain't. The causal effect on the use of AAVE by Brian is influenced by the environment or neighborhoods where he grew up. Growing up around his friends who use AAVE in their daily conversation leads him to obtain AAVE's native-like control. Likewise, AAVE's use was the main effect of the linguistic marketplace in order to project identities in stable ways.


TheGIST ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deina Dewi Puspita ◽  
Ria Nirwana ◽  
Fourus Huznatul Abqoriyyah

In this research, the researcher analyzed three components of semiotics as well as connotative and denotative meanings in iPhone advertisements. This analysis is related to the meaning or meaning of the print ads of some types of iPhone and the use of the language meaning in  the headline which is an important component in advertising. The language in the ads is used as a means of communicating between ads with buyers. These ads convey messages through language so that language should be made as attractive as possible to attract the attention of consumers. Researchers used twenty-five iPhone ads (first generation iPhone to iPhone X) as research objects analyzed using the semiotics theory of Pierce and Barthes and  advertising theory as a supporting theory. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. There are several steps of analysis performed: finding representament, object and interpretant of advertisement and explaining and determining the meaning of the sign used from the headline of each advertisement also find out how semiotic is used as a tool to convey the message of the advertisement. The analysis results show that the representament obtained from a headline words, logo and some picture which help ads to show the iPhone. An object described from the color of display, brightness also the background of the online ads itself and then interpretant is the relation between representament-object. From the headline found connotative sign contain the primacy from step, revolution, dimension that Apple’s company passed. While the denotation shows the privilege from specification, price, features which gave benefit people must choose and purchase the Apple product.


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