Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya
Vol 13, No 1 (2023): (Januari 2023)

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IN TAYLOR SWIFT’S SONGS (A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS)

Suleman Bouti (Universitas Negeri Gorontalo)
Rusni Podungge (Universitas Negeri Gorontalo)
Irmawaty Umar (Universitas Negeri Gorontalo)
Meity Dasinsingon (Universitas Negeri Gorontalo)



Article Info

Publish Date
03 Feb 2023

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the types of figurative language meaning in Taylor Swift’s songs. There are two songs by Taylor Swift in the album 1989 with the title blank space and new romantics were used in this research as the data. This research has conducted with used descriptive qualitative method. The approach used in this research is a semantic analysis based on linguistics theory. This research used two main theories by Abram (1999), which focuses on analyzing the types of figurative language and the theory of meaning by Leech (1974) which focuses on analyzing the meaning in blank space and new romantic songs. The technique of collecting the data used library research. The data were analyzed by identifying, classifying, and analyzing. This research indicated seven types of figurative language were found in this research. As the result, there are 6 types of metaphor, 6 types of simile, 2 types of personification, 4 types of hyperbole, 12 types of symbolism,  1 type of irony, and 2 types of paradox. Furthermore, the researcher also found 5 types of semantic meaning in blank space and new romantic songs. There are 5 types of connotative meaning, 11 types of affective meaning, 9 types of social meaning, 1 type of conceptual meaning, and 2 types of collocative meaning.

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Journal Info

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JBSP

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Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

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The aims of this journal is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers and practitioners for publishing the original research articles or review articles. The scope of the articles published in this journal deal with a broad range of topics, including: - Indonesian Language - Indonesian ...