An Analysis On Figurative Language In Maher Zain’s Song Lyrics

Anggraini, Nila Putri (2019) An Analysis On Figurative Language In Maher Zain’s Song Lyrics. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Kediri.

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Abstract

Nowdays, there are many people who like to listen music or song, especially English songs, because, English song is one of the way to improve English skill. People just need to listen and read the lyric of the songs. After they are listened and read the text of song, not all the listeners could catch the message of the song that should be understood by the listeners. In this research, the researcher find out the figurative language in Maher Zain song lyrics which has deep meaning and moral messages for the listeners. They not enjoy to listen the music, but, also they will know the meaning of the song. The aims of this research are to know the figurative language that used in Maher Zain’s song lyrics and to know the moral message in Maher Zain’s song lyrics. The method that used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The instrument of this research are Maher Zain’s song lyrics and the researcher herself. Figurative language is Figurative language is a word or phrase that departs from every literal language which is very difficult to be understood by people even students because it has differentiation from its context and reality in meaning, in order to know that figurative language formed based on comparison and similarity. There are some song lyrics of Maher Zain’s songs in album “Thank you Allah” that used by the researcher, those are; “Hold My hand”, “Insha Allah”, “Palestine Tomorrow Will Be Free”, “Thank You Allah” and “For The Rest Of My Life “. To collect the data the researcher was seleceted some of the song lyrics. After that, the researcher noting down the data based on their classification. The data of this research are analyzed by using Groys Keraf theory. The result of this research has shown that the researcher found the figurative language in the song lyrics of Maher Zain’s, those are, Personification, Metaphor, Simile, Irony, Synecdoche and Hyperbole. The most dominant of the figurative language which is used in some songs is Hyperbole. Also there are some moral message in every song lyric, those are: Optimistic, grateful, never give up and cares.

Item Type:	Thesis (Skripsi, Tesis, Disertasi) (Undergraduate (S1))
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (Ilmu Bahasa, Komunikasi dan Budaya) > 2004 Linguistics (Ilmu Bahasa) > 200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguistics
Divisions:	Fakultas Tarbiyah > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	Muh Hamim
Date Deposited:	29 Jan 2024 03:35
Last Modified:	29 Jan 2024 03:35
URI:	https://etheses.iainkediri.ac.id:80/id/eprint/11763

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