AN ANALYSIS OF MEANING PROPERTIES AND RELATIONS IN
PARAMORE’S SONG ALBUM
BRAND NEW EYES
A THESIS
BY
MARGARETHA
REG. NO.100705113
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2014
AN ANALYSIS OF MEANING PROPERTIES AND RELATIONS IN
PARAMORE’S SONG ALBUM
BRAND NEW EYES
A THESIS
BY
MARGARETHA
REG. NO.100705113
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
MEDAN 2014
AN ANALYSIS OF MEANING PROPERTIES AND
RELATIONS IN PARAMORE’S SONG ALBUM
BRAND NEW
EYES
A THESIS
BY:
MARGARETHA
REG.NO. 100705113
SUPERVISOR, CO-SUPERVISOR,
Dr. Syahron Lubis, MA Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, MA. Ph.D
NIP.
19511013 197603 1001
NIP.19750209 200812 1 002
Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara Medan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from Department of English
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA
Approved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as a thesis for Sarjana Sastra Examination.
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Accepted by the Board of Examiners in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara, Medan.
The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of North Sumatera on Friday April 11, 2014
Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Sumatera Utara
Dr. Syahron Lubis, MA
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Board of Examiners (Signature)
Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar, MS ………..
Dr. Syahron Lubis, MA ………..
Rahmadsyah Rangkuti, MA. Ph.D ………..
Drs. Umar Mono, Dipl. Trans. M. Hum ………..
Dra. Roma Ayuni Lubis, M.A ………..
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First of all, I would like to praise and give the greatest honor to Jesus Christ who has
always been giving His blessing, guidance and spirit to finish my study especially in
completing this thesis.
In this opportunity, I would like to express my high appreciation to Dr. H. Syahron
Lubis, MA, The Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies and as my Supervisor, and Rahmadsyah
Rangkuti, MA. Ph.D as the Secretary of English Department, my Co-Supervisor, and my
Academic Supervisor for their time, thought, suggestion and support in order to guide me in
writing this thesis. And also thank to the Head of English Department, Dr. H. Muhizar
Muchtar, MS who has given me facilities and opportunities in completing this thesis.
Gratitude goes to all my lecturers who have shared their precious thought and valuable
knowledge through my academic years.
My lovely thanks to my beloved, supportive, and great family, my best father H.
Situmorang, my lovely adorable powerful mother R. Gultom and also my foster father N.
Situmorang, for giving me the good times and hard times too so I can stand here as myself
today, thank for fulfill all my needs and prayed for me during the process of my thesis
writing, I love you and I had been living it for you. Moreover, I thank to my loving sister and
brothers Heni Situmorang. Hendra Situmorang and Moses Marcell Situmorang, and my
cousin Sri Handayani S.Pd, my aunt S. Situmorang for their loving, caring, and kindness that
encouraged me to finish this thesis. God bless you all and I will always love you forever
more.
Thank you so much to those who have given me the joy, laughter and many other
things, Sarah Israila, Selvie Agustina, Mestika Pasaribu. I love you guys, thank you for
Also special thank to Seoul West Dance Academy for giving me a beautiful moments
and dance. To Alvin Ratuliu thank you for coming into my life, giving me silly things, and
laughter, thank you for the time we spent together, you are the matters to me xoxo. For you
my best friend Lasria Parhusip thank you so much for making me know what friendship is,
for the supports, laugh and silly things we already did, you know you always be my friend in
crime. My Last but not least, many thanks for my dear loving friends of batch 2010 in
English Department who had been being with me in four years my life in campus, sorry I
cannot mention your names. See you in better life. Fighting!
Medan, Maret 2014
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ABSTRAK
Skripsi yang berjudul “AN ANALYSIS OF MEANING PROPERTIES AND RELATIONS
IN THE PARAMORE’S SONG ALBUM BRAND NEW EYES” ini mengkaji tentang
keseluruhan tipe unsur makna dan hubungan makna yang digunakan oleh Paramore dalam
album yang ditulisnya yang berjudul “Brand New Eyes”. Dalam penulisan skripsi ini
menerapkan kajian kepustakaan dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif. Adapun
teori yang digunakan untuk menemukan jenis atau tipe makna yang digunakan dalam skripsi
ini mengacu pada teori Palmer (1976) yang mengklasifikasikan unsur makna menjadi
meaningfulness, anomaly, contradictory, ambiguity, dan redundancy; dan Leech (1977) yang
mengklasifikasikan hubungan makna menjadi synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy,
dan antonymy. Dalam album yang berjudul “Brand New Eyes” ini, penulis menemukan 123
data unsur makna dengan rincian 40 data meaningfulness (49.31%), 14 data anomaly
(19.17%), 1 data contradictory (1.36), 18 data ambiguity (24.65%), dan 4 data redundancy
(5.47%). Sedangkan untuk hubungan makna, penulis menemukan 50 data dengan rincian 6
data synonymy (12%), 18 data polysemy (36%), 3 data homonymy (6%), 6 data hyponymy
(12%), 17 data antonymy (34%).
ABSTRACT
This thesis entitled "AN ANALYSIS OF MEANING PROPERTIES AND RELATIONS IN
THE PARAMORE 'S SONG ALBUM BRAND NEW EYES" is a study about the overall of
meaning properties and relations used by Paramore in the album entitled "Brand New Eyes".
In writing this thesis the writer applied library research by using descriptive qualitative
method. The theory that used to find meaning properties and relations in this thesis refers to
Palmer’s theory (1976) that classifies meaning properties into meaningfulness, anomaly,
contradictory, ambiguity, and redundancy; and Leech’s theory (1977) which classifies
meaning relations into synonymy, polysemy, homonymy, hyponymy, and antonymy. In the
album, entitled "Brand New Eyes", the authors found 123 data with details, 36 data
meaningfulness (49.31 %), 14 the data anomaly (19.17 %), 1 data contradictory (1.36), 18
data ambiguity (24.65%), and 4 data redundancy (5.47 %). Whereas for the meaning
relations, the authors found 50 data with details, 6 data synonymy (12 %), 18 the data
polysemy (36 %), 3 the data homonymy (6 %), 6 the data hyponymy (12 %), 17 the data
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.2. The Identification problem………. 4
1.3. Formulation of the Problems………..…….. 4
2.2 Scope of Semantics………...…...….. 9
2.2.1 Meaning………...…….. 10
2.2.2 Sense and Reference……….. 12
2.3 Types of Meaning………. 14
1. Conceptual or Denotative Meaning………... 14
2. Connotative Meaning……….… 15
4. Affective or Emotive Meaning……….. 18
5. Reflected Meaning……….…… 18
6. Collocative Meaning……….………. 18
7. Thematic Meaning……….………….. 19
2.4 The Goals of Semantic Theory………. 19
2.5 Meaning Properties………... 21
2.5.1 Meaningfulness……….…. 21
2.5.2 Anomaly……….….. 22
2.5.3 Contradictory……….….. 22
2.5.4 Ambiguity……….…... 23
2.5.4.1 Lexical Ambiguity……….……. 24
2.5.4.2 Structural Ambiguity……….…... 25
2.5.5 Redundancy……….…. 26
2.6 Meaning Relations……….….. 26
2.6.1 Synonymy……….….... 26
2.6.2 Polysemy………..…. 27
2.6.3 Homonymy………...…. 28
2.6.4 Hyponymy……….. 29
2.6.5 Antonymy………...….. 29
2.6.5.1 Complementary pairs or Binary Pairs…..…... 29
2.6.5.2 Gradable Pairs………..…………..…. 30
2.6.5.3 Relational Opposites….…………..………… 31
2.7 Related Studies………..………..……… 32
CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH………..………... 34
3.2Data and Data Source………... 35
3.3 Data Collecting Method………..……. 35
3.4 Data Analysis Method……….……. 35
CHAPTHER IV ANALISIS AND FINDING………. 37
4.1 Meaning Properties………... 37
4.1.1 Meaningfulness………. 37
4.2.5.1 Complementary Pairs or Binary Pairs……… 66
4.2.5.2 Gradable Pairs………... 68
4.2.5.3 Relational Opposite……… 68
4.3 Finding……….70
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION………...73
5.1 Conclusion………... 73
REFERENCES………... 76
APPENDICES
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1 Data of Meaning Properties………70
Table 2 Data of Meaning Relations……… 70
