Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance’s Songs: A Semantic Analysis

Abstract

The research entitled “Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance’s Songs: A Semantic Analysis”. The aims of this research are to find out the types of contextual meaning and to find out the most dominant type of contextual meaning in five of My Chemical Romance’s songs: Welcome To The Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, I Don’t Love You, and Disenchanted. The research applies qualitative method and the data are analyzed descriptively. The data are classified based on the theory of Contextual Meaning of Lyons (1977). Based on Lyons’ theory, there are six types of contextual meaning: Context of Person, Context of Place, Context of Time, Context of Formality, Context of Mood, and Context of Subject-matter. The result of this research shows that there are 256 contextual meanings found on five of My Chemical Romance’s song lyrics. After being analyzed, there are 134 Context of Person (55.0%), 6 Context of Place (2.3%), 16 Context of Time (6.3%), 5 Context of Formality (2.0%), 45 Context of Mood (17.6%), and 43 Context of Subject-matter (16.8%). The results of this research show that all types of contextual meaning can be found in the lyrics of five of My Chemical Romance’s songs and Context of Person is the most dominant type of contextual meaning found in the lyrics of five of My Chemical Romance’s songs. The result of this study shows that the elements surrounding a context play an important role to convey the meanings of song lyrics.

Penelitian ini berjudul “Contextual Meaning on My Chemical Romance’s Songs: A Semantic Analysis”. Tujuan dari penelitian ini ialah untuk menemukan tipe makna kontekstual dan untuk menemukan tipe makna kontekstual terdominan di lima lagu My Chemical Romance: Welcome To The Black Parade, Teenagers, Famous Last Words, I Don’t Love You, dan Disenchanted. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dan data dianalisis secara deskriptif. Data diklasifikasi berdasarkan teori makna kontekstual oleh Lyons (1977). Berdasarkan teori Lyons, terdapat enam tipe makna kontekstual , yaitu: Context of Person, Context of Place, Context of Time, Context of Formality, Context of Mood, and Context of Subject-matter. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa terdapat 262 makna kontekstual di lirik lima lagu My Chemical Romance. Setelah analisis dilakukan, ditemukan 134 Context of Person (55.0%), 6 Context of Place (2.3%), 16 Context of Time (6.3%), 5 Context of Formality (2.0%), 45 Context of Mood (17.6%), dan 43 Context of Subject-matter (16.8%). Hasil dari penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa Context of Person adalah tipe makna kontekstual yang terdominan dan semua tipe makna kontekstual dapat ditemukan di lirik lima lagu My Chemical Romance. Hasil dari studi menunjukkan bahwa elemen-elemen yang melingkupi sebuah konteks berperan penting dalam menyampaikan makna dari lirik lagu.