AN ANALYSIS OF HYPERBOLIC EXPRESSIONS USED IN LOVE SONGS’ LYRICS

HAMDIANA, BAIQ HERINA (2015) AN ANALYSIS OF HYPERBOLIC EXPRESSIONS USED IN LOVE SONGS’ LYRICS. S1 thesis, Universitas Mataram.

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Abstract

This thesis deals with An Analysis of Hyperbolic Expressions Used In Love Songs’ Lyrics. This study is aimed at identifying the hyperbolic expressions that were used in love songs’ lyrics and explain the meaning of hyperboles in love songs’ lyrics. The data in this study collected through documentation method, and browsing from internet. This study explain about the way to analyzing the song lyrics. The way is: first, listening and reading to the song lyrics very carefully, second learning the key words of the lyrics several times until the writer understand what the songs about, and classifying the lyrics or the words in the songs. To classification the lyrics about hyperbole expression in the songs is identification of hyperbole, description of hyperbole, and explanation.As one kind of literary works, songs give the listeners fun or amusement. Besides, songs give the listeners lessons which are valuable for their lives because songs tell human experience as its primary concern. Love songs, there are examples of the songs expressing how the artist get love and show how falling in love with someone. In constructing the final project, I focused the research on the whole songs that related hyperbolic expressions in the love songs. I took them, because after listen the songs and reading the texts I found many stanzas that contained sense of love in hyperbolic expressions. The data were gathered from the text of the songs. In order that I could easily understand the meaning of the songs, I started listening and reading them to discover their hyperbolic expressions in Love Songs lyrics. I arranged some other sufficient data by doing library activities. I selected some books related to the subject matter to support my effort in conducting the analysis. Based on the analysis there were ten songs that contained hyperbole. Each song in this album has various meanings but some of them have similar meaning to each other. Although each song in this album has various and different meanings, but it has similar themes and reveal sense of love through hyperbolic expressions to strengthen the meanings of songs. Hyperbolic expressions in each song of the album have many meanings. Hyperbole is an exaggeration used for the special effect or impression it will create.The results in this study that are found many exaggerated meaning in the love songs’ lyrics and there are many hyperbolic expressions that are used in the songs. In this study that found hyperbolic expressions that are used in the love songs, the expressions is power of love, passion of love, proof of love, and expectation of love.

Item Type: Thesis (S1)
Keywords (Kata Kunci): Hyperbole, Song, Lyric, Love Song.
Subjects: L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions: Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan
Depositing User: Saprudin Saprudin
Date Deposited: 06 Oct 2018 01:48
Last Modified: 06 Oct 2018 01:48
URI: http://eprints.unram.ac.id/id/eprint/8348

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