AN ANALYSIS OF CONTEXTUAL MEANING IN SELECTED SAMI YUSUF’S SONG LYRICS ON WHEREVER YOU ARE ALBUM

• Main Author: Mr. Suphandee Yalaha, NIM. 13150074
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Bahasa Inggris; sami
• Online Access: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/32477/; https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/32477/1/13150074_BAB-I_IV-atau-V_DAFTAR%20PUSTAKA.pdf; https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/32477/2/13150074_BAB-II_sampai_SEBELUM-BAB-TERAKHIR.pdf

Semantics as the study about the meaning stands at the very center of the linguistic to understand the nature of the language and the human language abilities. Semantics not only concerns with the study of meaning, but it also studies the relationship between language and culture. This research discusses “an analysis of contextual meaning in selected Sami Yusuf‟s song lyrics on “wherever you are” album”. The researcher focuses on three songs in the album. There are “Wherever You are”, In Every Tear He is There” and “No Word is Worthy” that are sung by Sami Yusuf. This research uses the theory of Mansoer Pateda‟s theory. In addition, the method used in this research is qualitative method and this research is intended to describe the contextual meaning in Sami Yusuf‟s song lyrics that are downloaded from internet. This research uses document technique to select the data in this research. After all of analyzing the data, the researcher finds 37 lyrics that are contextual meaning in the three songs. There are 15 lyrics of contextual meaning in “Wherever You are” song, 4 lyrics of the situation context, 2 lyrics of the purpose context, 2 lyrics of the mood context, 3 lyrics of the time context, and 4 lyrics of the place context. There are 12 lyrics of contextual meaning in “In Every Tear He is There” song, 8 lyrics of the situation context, 2 lyrics of the mood context, and 2 lyrics of the place context. The last, there are 10 lyrics of contextual meaning in “No Word is Worthy” song, 4 lyrics of the situation context, 2 lyrics of the purpose context, 3 lyrics of the mood context, and 1 lyric of the time context.