AN ANALYSIS OF DENOTATIVE AND CONNOTATIVE MEANING SELECTED JUSTIN FT KID LAROI SONGS LYRIC

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A. Introduction
Languages is a means of communication that relates one person with others in daily activities.Language relates people in the society through the use of language in conveying ideas.People interact from one to another through languages a kind of social activity.This is the consequence of human as a social creature.Therefore language is very important in human daily life.
As a means of communication, language is conveyed both directly and indirectly.
Conveying language directly is speaking process, but conveying language indirectly is realized, such as in writing process or other media of language delivery such as song.Both of them are called verbal process of delivering language.Non verbal process of language realized in form of such as symbols, sign, gesture, etc.
As one of the activity of human daily life, language touches almost all the aspect of human life.Human being employs language such as in expressing ideas or throught, feelings, experiences, teaching, learning, research, bussines, social, goverment, politic, etc.In conculsion, language cannot be separated from human daily activity.
Moreover, Kreidler (2002:19-20) stated that: A language is a system of symbols through which people communicate.The symbols maybe spoken, written, or signed with the hands.A language is a complex system of symbols, or signs, that are shared by members of a community.It will be useful to consider other signs that we know and how we react to them.
From the definition, it is clear stated that language has very huge impact for human beings.It is used for communication, social, affairs, politic, and even in building a nation.It is also stated that language is a vehicle for literal expression.It is means that language is used to drive someone's thoughts or feelings which can be embodied through words exploitation.The use of language is also intended for artistic activities, such as entertainment, poetry, song, novel, drama, and so on.
The arguments of the importance of language has invited the attention of many people to learn and study about language.
The study of language is callecd linguistics.
Linguistics Semantics is one of internal elements of language.Hurford (2007:1) stated that semantics is the study of meaning in language.Semantics explores the meaning of a language scientifically.It means that the meaning that contained by language.
According to riemer (2010:3) stated that "meaning is the heart of language.
Meaning, we might say, is what language is for: to have a language without meaning would be like having lugs without air".It cannot be denied how important to know the meaning of a word.In using language, regardless of what purposes, meaning is crucially to know.A branch of linguistic provides the discussion about meaning, namely semantics.Hence , the core of the importance of the language is its 'meaning'.
The words has two main kinds of meaning, denotation and connotation.
Denotation is the meaning of a word, which is primarily, refers to the real word, the "dictionary definition".It is the types of meaning which may be described in terms

B. Research Method
This research was conducted by using the qualitative approach."Qualitative research is a form of inquiry that explores phenomena in their natural settings and uses multi-methods to interpret, understand, explain and bring meaning to them" (Arsenault and Anderson, 2005:126).
of a set of semantic properties which serve to identify the particular concept associated with the word in question.According to barker, connotation is "the part of the meaning of a word and he says that connotative as an implicit meaning".For example: the song lyrics from Kid Laroi with the title "stay".I do the samething I told you that I never would I told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey.. From the example above, the singer used denotative meaning and connotative meaning.The word "do the same" the denotative meaning (how the dictionary defines "do the same" ) is carry out similar activities , or do the same activity as before.But in connotative meaning, it depends.The word "Do the same" in Kid Laroi song lyrics means 'do things that make him repent'.Another example is word "I told you i'd change" in denotative meaning is 'someone will change" but in connotative meaning "I told you i'd change" is 'someone who wants to change his life into a good human.jurnal.uniraya.ac.id/index.php/RelationSome of the people interpret as a teasing allusion to the official and the other one view as a description about social condition or social reality.Therefore, it is interesting to investigate the types of connotative, denotative meaning and connotative meaning found in the lyrics of the Kid Laroi songs.The researcher chose Justin Ft Kid Laroi album songs in this analysis because song is one of medium of expressing thought and feelings by using language, which are associated with tones.Through songs, a composer convey what he/she is thinking about, or what or how he/she feeling about something or somebody.These songs are selected to be the object of this research, since the songs are popular among people, such youngsters, students, adults, and even the others.As the researcher experienced, these songs are liked and listened and even sung by many people, particularly students, commonly, the students who are learning English like to listen to these songs, and even try to understand the meaning of the songs.However, the listeners of these songs find difficulty to understand the meaning of the lyric because it is found some words which have denotative and connotative meaning.