14 to Norton Dudeque, theme in music is the summarized of the idea of basic outline
from every variation in structured song 2005: 194. Theme is the meaning of a story that may be the discovered story Kenney 1966: 91. It means the theme is a
central idea that dominates in a word where all elements in a work are focused.
C. Theoretical Framework
In this analysis, the writer uses four theories which are theory of song, semantics, theory of figurative language, pragmatics in context and theory of
theme. The first one, which is the theory of song, is used to give the understanding of the nature of song. Also, the first theory is used to give strategies in
comprehending the songs. The second theory which is the semantic, is beneficial in examining some features from the songs and also the basic understanding of the
topic which is discussed in the study. The third theory is used to give brief explanation of the meaning of the words that the metaphor has and also give the
comparison to find the transferred meaning. Using the figurative language theory, the writer also uses the theory to find the meaning behind the figurative language
that the song writer by study of dictionary. The theory of context is used to imply the transferred meaning after being compared with semantics terms in lexical
meaning. The last theory is used to summarize the metaphor in a word that clarifies the theme of the song. It is estimated that the meaning of metaphor can clarify how
they contribute creating theme of the songs. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of The Study
Sara Bareilles is an American song-writer. She has sold more than one million records for the past 5 years and been nominated for Grammy awards. She has
written over 70 songs and has released 5 albums from 2004 until 2015. Her first albums “Careful Confessions” contains 11 songs. This is her debut album for indie
singer. The album was made and released when she was attending college in The United States. Her se
cond album named “Little Voice”, contains 13 songs, including her hit song “Love song“ and “Gravity”. This album became her official
debut album in The United States and was nominated for 51
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Grammy Awards. “Kaleidoscope Heart” is her third album which was released on September 7
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, 2007. This album contains 13 songs,
including “King of Anything” as single of the album. Her latest album; The Blessed Unrest has been nominated in Grammy
Awards for album of the year. “Brave” become her lead single for the album that lead her into a nomination for 56
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Grammy Awards. This album contains 12 songs including “Brave” and “Manhattan”. Dealing with the songs, the writer wants to
find the meaning behind the metaphor in the song lyrics and also how they contribute to make the theme of the song.
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B. Approach of The Study
In analyzing the songs, semantic approach is applied. In specific terms, these songs will be analyzed in terms of figurative language, which is metaphor, to
analyze the sentence that Sara Bareilles uses in writing the songs. The semantic approach is used to determine the meaning of the metaphorical expression that Sara
Bareilles used in her songs. In Semantics, we could conduct meaning of a written text. This study uses printed lyrics of Sara Bareilles songs as the object of study of
the analysis. The semantics approach helps find out the contribution of the metaphor in terms of creating the theme for the songs. The following metaphors use lexical
semantic in order to find the literal meaning of the word, then after the literal meaning is found, the research will compare the literal meaning in order to find the
transferred meaning. In the end of this study, it will reveal how the metaphor give the contribution the theme of the song.
C. Method of The Study
1. Data Collection
In conducting the research, some steps were taken. For the first step, the writer randomly picked songs from Sara Bareilles. The method that is used in
order to find the data is random sampling. The writer chose 5 songs that are popular in each of the Sara Bareilles album. T
he works and choices are “Love Song”, “Gravity”, “King of Anything”, “Brave”, and “Manhattan”. The second
step, the writer will collects the metaphors that contained in the songs. The theory of metaphor helps the writer to find and group the metaphor.
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2. Data Analysis
After collecting all metaphor, the data analysis is done. The data analysis consisted of three steps. First, all metaphors are categorized and grouped based on
the title of the songs. Second, determining the meaning of the metaphor by defining the metaphors with literal meaning to make comparison. Here is the example:
Drug a thing to heal
A word that is aimed to encourage and advice someone The example is taken from the song en
titled “Brave”. In this song, drug has a meaning word to encourage someone. Drug can have metaphorical meaning by
comparing with the lexical meaning of drug itself. After knowing the literal meaning,
next is using the meaning of the metaphors to analyze . The context puts
the meaning and finally can make a new transferred meaning based on the context of the song
. The last step is taken to draw the conclusion by comparing the meaning and the context of the songs from the analysis. The conclusion is the summary of
the answer for the questions formulated. Lexical Semantics
Signifier Drug
Signified A thing to heal someone
