ANALYSIS OF THE USING ASSOCIATIVE MEANING IN THE MAHER ZAIN’S SONG LYRIC

ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF THE USING ASSOCIATIVE MEANING IN THE MAHER ZAIN’S SONG By Muvida Nahla Lyric of song is one of many media as to express the ideas, thought opinion and also can be effective media to learn foreign language. Almost peoples from all generous like listening music. however unfortunately in understand the meaning the lyric of songs there were the lack when interpreted the songs meaning could be affected in the implied of the message of the song then could not be delivered as well and the listener could not be understand what the singer want to say.to analyze the meaning of the songs, there are some types of meaings, such as connotative meaning, affective meaning, social meaning, reflected meaning and collocative meaning. Thus, the students were encouraged to find out and analyze the kinds meaning in the song’s lyric of Maher Zain’s. This research used descriptive qualitative method to arrive at rich descriptions of words, phrases or sentences in the lyric songs of Maher Zain’s. In collecting the data, researcher utilized documentation method. In the way of process to collection the data the researcher through some steps by collecting, marking or underlining the phrase, sentences or words in the song’s lyric and then was analyzed and describe by using theory of associative meaning. The result of this research showed that there are types of associative meanings and its functions in the lyric of the songs. There were six data of connotative meaning, five data of affective meaning, two data of social meaning, three data of reflected meaning and two data of collocative meaning. From all types of meaning, the researcher found that in the song often used connotative meaning to delivered the experience in the real world to iiassociate with the expression when someone heard it or used it. The conclusion of this research were to give information to the readers and increase their knowledge about meaning, might be able to be applied as source or reference in learning foreign language through songs to avoid the potential of bias meaning further analysis was needed regarding the interpretation of the real meaning in a song lyric. Keyword: Research Mea