AN ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN PAMUNGKAS’ SONG LYRICS

ABSTRACT AN ANALYSIS OF CONNOTATIVE MEANING IN PAMUNGKAS’ SONG LYRICS By: Wahyu Pebiarti Connotative meaning is a word that has sense of value. Generally connotative meaning can be found in literary work, one of them is song. Song have become ordinary thing to be heard at home or in public places. This research aims to find out : 1) what are the types of connnotative meaning contained in the Pamungkas‟ Song lyrics? 2) what are the message delivered in the Pamungkas‟ song lyrics?. This research was descriptive qualitative because the data were the lyrics of Pamungkas‟ song. There were some steps in collecting data such as browsed the song, watched and listened the song lyrics on youtube, and copy the song lyrics. In data analysis, this research used Miles and Huberman procedure, namely data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/ verification. The researcher use validator to validity the data. The result of this research were the researcher found that there are three types of connotative meaning based on J.N. Hook Theory namely positive, negative and neutral connotation in Pamungkas' song lyrics. There are fifteen data that contain connotative meaning including four positive connotations, eight neutral connotations and three negative connotations. Neutral connotation is most widely used in the lyrics of the song to replace the actual meaning to make it more interesting and easier to understand. From this analysis, the researcher found the message that the author wanted to convey. There are two songs that contain motivation about life and three other songs about love stories. Pamungkas used good words to describe the situation and feelings that are being experienced. Keywords : Semantics, Connotative Meaning, Son