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An Analysis of Contextual Meaning in Alessia Cara'S Song Lyrics of "Knew-It-All" Album
An Analysis of Contextual Meaning in Alessia Cara'S Song Lyrics of "Knew-It-All" Album
A Research Proposal
By
Rehmalemta Br Sembiring
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INTRODUCTION
B. Statement of Problem
According to the background of the research above, there are some questions
that attract the writer to make them as the problem of this paper, they are as
follow:
1. What the contexts are used in Alessia Cara’s song lyrics of the “Knew-It-
All” album?
2. What the contextual meaning are found in Alessia Cara’s song lyrics of the
“Knew-It-All” album?
C. Research Purposes
Based on the problems above, the purposes of this research are:
1. To find out the contexts used in Alessia Cara’s song lyrics of the “Knew-
It-All” album.
2. To find out the contextual meaning are found in Alessia Cara’s song lyrics
of the “Knew-It-All” album.
D. Research Significances
This research aims to inform that linguistics additionally has an important role
in science and communication. Specifically, it hopes to have benefit as
follows:
a. Practical
This study aims to help beneficial information to improve student’s
meaning to text in the State of Islamic Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung
students, primarily the English Department students. The researcher
hopefully can provide the contribution of knowledge and consciousness
about how important the meaning of the text.
b. Theoretical
This research can be used as an additional reference for the next
researcher, mainly those who are interested in the study of discourse
analysis about the contextual meaning of song lyrics.
E. Conceptual Framework
In this research, the researcher is used contextual meaning theory by
Mansoer Pateda (2010) which divided into 10 contexts. There is the context of
organs, the context of the time, the context of place, the context of formality,
the context of purposes, the context of language, the context of a situation, the
context of linguistic, the context of completeness in speak or hear from
speaker or listener, and the context of an object. These ten of contexts have an
important role to know the contextual meaning in Alessia Cara’s song lyrics in
the “Knew-It-All” album and to understand what Alessia Cara’s message on
her song.
The researcher focuses on what contexts and meaning are found in
these song lyrics. Sometimes, the listener as foreign people or English people
has failed to know what Cara wants to talk about from her lyrics. To
understanding what Cara’s message from her song lyrics, the researcher
focuses on the contexts and meaning are found in her song lyrics. So, the
researcher uses that theory to describe her message by dissecting the lyrics
according to the contexts used.
F. Research Method
This chapter presents the research method in conducting this current research.
This research method covers the research design, sample of data, source of
data, technique of data collecting data, and technique of analyzing data.
1. Research Design
This research focuses on song lyrics created by Alessia Cara in the
album “Knew-It-All”. This research is used in qualitative document
analysis. Moleong (2006:6) stated that qualitative research is research that
intends to understand the phenomena experienced by research subjects
such as behavior, perception, motivation, action, etc. in a holistic manner,
and by means of descriptions in the form of words and language, a special
context which is natural and making use of various natural methods. This
research uses descriptive research because it focuses on describing the
contextual phenomena meaning including descriptions of events,
participants, actions, and situations. The researcher uses a qualitative
method to describe the song lyrics of Alessia Cara’s album “Knew-It-All”
to study the main concern in this study.
2. Sample of Data
The data in this research use the phrases, words, and sentences which
had contextual meaning taken from Alessia Cara’s song lyrics in the
“Knew-It-All” album. The data source is taken from the “Knew-It-All”
album which had twelve songs released in 2015. They are Seventeen, Her ,
Outlaws, I’m Yours, Four Pink Walls, Wild Things, Stone, Overdose,
Stars, Scars to your beautiful, River of Tears, and My Song . These data
analyzed used the Lyon’s theory. These can be seen in the sample below:
Lyrics I
(Scars to Your Beautiful)
She just wants to be beautiful
She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits
She craves attention, she praises an image
She prays to be sculpted by sculptor
A piece of the lyrics above, there is the context of person, the context
of purposes, the context of situation, and context of object. For context of
person is she. The pronoun she is used to fulfill the role as the target of the
utterance. She just wants to be beautiful is the context of purpose. The
sentence as the concerned of a piece of the lyrics above that she wants to
be beautiful and the people claimed that. The sentence she prays to be
sculpted by sculptor is context of situation. Although the situation is not
stated, it is clear that she is in a solemn situation because she is praying to
her God. Context of object from a piece of the lyrics above is about
beautiful. Contextual meaning from the lyrics is she just wants to be
beautiful which are people praise her and that is why she prays to her
God.
Lyrics 2
(Scars to Your Beautiful)
From these lyrics, the researcher found context of person and context
of object. The pronoun she is used to fulfill the role as the target of the
utterance. The pronoun we is used to fulfill the role as the target of the
utterance. The pronoun she and we has the same role. The context of
object from the lyrics is blind. She does not see her beautiful cause people
perspective. The contextual meaning from this lyrics is she did not big
deeper into her own beauty and that she also suffered and endured pain
from people’s perspectives on beauty.
Lyrics 3
(Here)
I’m sorry if I seem uninterested
Or I’m not listenin’ or I’m different
Truly I ain’t got no business here, I just came to kick it
Lyrics 4
(Here)
From these lyrics, the researcher found the context of person, the context
of object, the context of place, and the context of mood. I is the context of
person. The pronoun I is used to fulfill the roles as the speaker of the
utterance. The phrase room is as the context of place. From that, the
researcher concludes that I does not want to this room. The sentence But
really I would rather be at home all by myself is the context of mood of
these lyrics. Because it is clear the word “really” emphasizes that I don’t
like that place. The contextual meaning from these lyrics is I compare
his/her feeling from this room or his/her home. His/her does not like this
room because the people don’t care about welfare.
3. Source of Data
Data source in this research retrieved from a website of song lyrics
https://genius.com/albums/Alessia-cara/Know-it-all (October 2020).
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